Mahfuza Khatun

Mahfuza Khatun
Personal information
Full name Mahfuza Khatun
Nickname(s) Shila
National team  Bangladesh
Born Jessore District, Bangladesh.[1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle breaststroke
College team University of Chittagong
Medal record
Women's swimming
Competitor for  Bangladesh
South Asian Games
Guwahati and Shillong 2016 100 m
Guwahati and Shillong 2016 50 m
Dhaka 2010 100 m
Dhaka 2010 50 m

Mahfuza Khatun is a Bangladeshi woman's swimmer. She won two gold medals in the 50 m & 100 m breaststroke swimming at the 2016 South Asian Games at Guwahati.[1][2]

Early life

Mahfuza Khatun was born into a poor family from Panchkabor village in Abhaynagar upazila, Jessore District.[1] Her father's name is Ali Ahammad Gazi and mother's name is Karimon Nesa.[3] She has four siblings.

She started competitive swimming in 1999 through a Shisu Academy swimming competition. She won her first medal in her 3rd grade.[3] She won the first gold medal in 100-metre breaststroke in national age group swimming in Dhaka in 2002.

She was a student of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan; national sports institute in the year of 2002. Then she did her graduation and post-graduation in Communication and Journalism at University of Chittagong.[1] She worked as a part-timer at Bangladesh Navy.[4]

Swimming career

Mahfuza Khatun's favorite events are 100 and 50 meter breaststroke. She got her first SA games medal in Colombo 2006 in 100 m breaststroke. She won two bronze medals in 100 and 50 meter breaststroke swimming in that games.

Again in 2010 South Asian Games, she earned two silver medals in 100 and 50 meter breaststroke swimming. Gradually improving herself, Mahfuza won the 100 and 50 meter breaststroke gold in 2016 SA Games. In 50 meter, she breaks the SA Games record with the timing of 34.88 seconds in 2016.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mahfuza now dreams of Olympic chase". Daily Sun (Bangladesh) (Dhaka). 2016-02-11. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  2. ↑ Rahman, Anisur (2016-02-08). "Mabia, Mahfuza make it Bangladesh's day". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) (Dhaka). Archived from the original on 2016-02-10. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  3. 1 2 "‘Golden Girl’ gives up medals for father’s treatment". NTV Online. 2016-02-10. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  4. ↑ "NAVY CHIEF ACCORDS RECEPTION FOR SUCCESS OF NAVY TEAM IN BANGLADESH GAMES". 2013-04-28. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
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