Asian Games: Former heptathlon gold medalist Swapna Barman accuses 2023 bronze winner Nandini Agasara of being a transgender in girls’s sport

India’s champion heptathlete Swapna Barman has leveled grave allegations after dropping the bronze medal within the Hangzhou Asian Games to fellow Indian Nandini Agasara.

Swapna Barman has accused Nandini Agasara of being a ‘transgender’. “I’ve misplaced my Asian Games bronze medal to a transgender girls on the nineteenth Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. I would like my medal again as it’s towards the principles of our Athletics. Help me and help me please. #protestforfairplay“, Barman tweeted after dropping to Nandini by simply 4 factors within the girls’s heptathlon occasion to complete fourth.

I’ve misplaced my Asian Games bronze medal to a transgender girls on the nineteenth Asian Games held in Hangzhou,China.
I would like my medal again as it’s towards the principles of our Athletics. Help me and help me please. #protestforfairplay

— Swapna Barman (@Swapna_Barman96) October 2, 2023

Telangana’s Nandini Agasara went forward of Swapna within the 800m race within the girls’s heptathlon occasion. The 20-year-old Nandini completed with an total complete of 5712 factors, her private finest up to now. Before the 800m race, Nandini had additionally received the 200m race, which bought her 936 factors.

Standing on the rostrum along with her bronze medal, an emotional Nandini devoted her feat to her late father, a tea vendor who had nurtured his daughter’s dream by way of his meager earnings. Nandini said, “He raised me, he did everything for me. But I lost him last December.”

🥉🇮🇳 Incredible journey, inspiring victory!

Heptathlete Nandini Agasara, a tea vendor’s daughter from Telangana, moved hearts as she shared her emotional debut on the Asian Games.

Started athletics 4-Years, she defeated defending champion Swapna Barman, culminating in a… pic.twitter.com/oiwRddQsi3

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Nandini completed third within the lengthy leap, sealing the bronze medal.

Swapna Barman, India’s begin heptathlete who had received the 2018 Asian Games Gold, completed fourth with 5708 factors. She misplaced the bronze medal by simply 4 factors. China’s Zheng Ninali claimed the gold medal with a season-best rating of 6149 whereas Uzbekistan’s Ekaterina Voronina positioned second with 6056 factors.

A dream day for @Swapna_Barman96 because the daughter of a rickshaw-puller overcomes obstacles to do India proud with historic heptathlon gold

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— The Times Of India (@timesofindia) August 30, 2018

Swapna Barman made headlines after she clinched the gold medal within the 2018 Asian Games in a shocking efficiency. She had a ache patch on her face as a consequence of a nasty toothache and didn’t have correct sneakers to suit her six-toes toes. Despite bodily difficulties and a lifetime of battle by way of poverty, Barman had overcome all odds to win gold for India within the Jakarta Asian Games.