About Anand Shetty
Lived 1961 – 2013 (aged 51–52). Anand Shetty was an Indian athletics competitor.
Career Son of a Kambala Jockey, and himself a Jockey in teens, Anand Shetty started his career in sports initially as a Kabaddi player and eventually turned into sprints. He made his first senior appearance at the international level in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. In the South Asian Games, he won gold medals in the 200 metres event in Kathmandu in 1984 and in the 100 metres event in Calcutta in 1987. He won gold medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres seniors' national events in 1982 in Delhi and went on to retain the titles in Jamshedpur in 1983.
Death Anand Shetty was seriously injured in a car accident on 18 May 2013 and succumbed to the injuries on 21 May at the KMC Hospital in Mangalore.
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Indian athlete
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Anand Shetty was born in 1961.
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Anand Shetty died on 21 May 2013 in Mangaluru.
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Anand Shetty was an athletics competitor.
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