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Sanjay Kumar Rai
Sanjay Kumar Rai hails from the state of Uttar Pradesh and won many championships for India.

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Sanjay Kumar Rai, Indian Long JumperSanjay Kumar Rai, born on 1st May 1979, is an Indian track and field athlete from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, who specializes in the long jump event. He competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games but did not record a valid jump. His personal best jump in IAAF competition is 8.03m at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships in Jakarta in 2000, where he won the silver medal.

He has succeeded T. C. Yohannan of Kerala. Later Amritpal Singh (8.08 m) broke his record in the 10th Federation Cup Athletics Championships at the Nehru Stadium in New Delhi in 2004.

Later in his career he did not get proper support from IAF when he was injured

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