Anitha Pauldurai

Anitha Pauldurai
Position Shooting guard
Career International: 2001–present
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.73 m)
Nationality India Indian
Born (1985-06-22) 22 June 1985
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Anitha Pauldurai (born 22 June 1985, Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian basketball player who has been the Captain of the Indian Women's National basketball team.

Anitha is the first Indian woman who played seven ASIAN BASKETBALL CONFEDERATION(ABC) championship continuously to represent the Nation squad and also gave the honour of Captaincy. She is one of the first ever Ranked in Top Four A grade Elite basketball player of Indian.

During August,2012,she has been selected to play for international professional league in Thailand. Anitha has played a number of international tournaments including big ticket events such as the Asian championship, common wealth games 2006 and 16th Asian games 2010. Anitha won Gold Medal in 1st 3 on 3 FIBA ASIAN BASKETBALL championship at Doha 2013, Gold Medal in 3rd Asian beach games at Haiyan china 2012, Captain and Top Assists in the tournament, Gold Medal in south Asian beach games at Sri Lanka 2011 and Silver Medal in Asian indoor games at Vietnam 2009.

Anitha Pauldurai won Gold Medal for 10 years and Bronze Medal for 2 years in prestigious senior National championship and won 11 medals in prestigious National games |Federation cup |Junior |Youth national.

International Sporting Achievements

National Sporting achievement

Awards and Achievement

Academic

Graduated in B.Com from Madras University & MBA (HRM) from Annamalai University

Family

Anitha Pauldurai , a resident of Chennai, started playing basketball at the age of 11,but admits that early on, she wasn’t a fan of the sport.”I used to like volleyball and athletics more ,”she said ,”But when I was in school, the basketball coach recommended that I try the game. The more I played ,the more interested I became in the sport.” She was graduate in B.Com from Madras University & MBA (HRM) from Annamalai University. She joined Southern Railway 2003, now working as Chief Ticket Inspector.

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