For Mallala Anusha, aged 20, coming from a financially poor background, success did not come easily. But when it did, it took the athletic world by storm.
A first year BA student of Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala in Vijayawada, Anusha has taken part in around 20 competitions in the triple jump category, both at the State and national level, from the time she plunged into full-time sports in 2017.
“But it was when I bagged gold in the triple jump category in the Inter-State University Athletics Championship for Men and Women held in Chennai in March that I tasted success for the first time,” says Anusha, who represents Krishna University in the competitions.
