Sushmitha Singha Roy

{{short description|Indian heptathlete}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}

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| sport = Athletics

| event = Heptathlon

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| pb = Heptathlon: 6,027 points
(2008)

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| birth_place = Midnapore, India

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{{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2005 Incheon|Heptathlon}}

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Sushmitha Singha Roy ({{langx|bn|সুস্মিতা সিংহ রায়}}; born 26 March 1984 in Midnapore) is an Indian heptathlete.{{cite sports-reference|title = Sushmitha Singha Roy|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/sushmitha-singha-roy-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418120139/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/sushmitha-singha-roy-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 10 December 2012}}{{cite web|title=NBC Olympics Athlete Profile: Sushmitha Singha Roy|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=50833/bio/index.html|work=Beijing 2008|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=5 October 2015}} She had won a silver and a bronze medal for her respective category at the IAAF Asian Championships (2005 in Incheon, South Korea, and 2007 in Amman, Jordan).{{cite news|url=http://news.oneindia.in/2007/07/27/pauloseshobha-win-2-more-silversushmita-adds-bronze-1185529521.html|title=Asian Athletics: Women keep tricolour flying|publisher=One India News|date=27 July 2007|accessdate=10 December 2012}}

Singha Roy qualified for the women's heptathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after attaining a B-standard of 5,866 points from the Indian Federation Cup in Bhopal.{{cite news|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/singha-roy-meets-olympic-b-standard-indian|title=Singha Roy meets Olympic B-standard – Indian Federation Cup report|publisher=IAAF |date=28 February 2008|accessdate=10 December 2012}} She initially placed thirty-third out of forty-three heptathletes in the event, with a total score of 5,705 points, but was elevated to a single higher position, when Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska stripped of her silver medal for failing the doping test on methyltestosterone.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7571867.stm|title=Blonska thrown out of long jump |publisher=BBC Sport |date=21 August 2008|accessdate=10 December 2012}}{{cite web|title=Women's Heptathlon|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW700000/eventstandings.html|work=Beijing 2008|publisher=NBC Olympics|access-date=10 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730235628/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW700000/eventstandings.html|archive-date=30 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}

The following year, Singha Roy suffered numerous setbacks in her sporting career. She finished last out of twenty-six athletes at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany, with a total tally of 4,983 points, which was farther from her personal best of 6,027, set at a national meet in Bangalore.{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sport/athletics/susmita-finishes-last/article4449.ece|title=Susmita finishes last|newspaper=The Hindu|date=17 August 2009|accessdate=10 December 2012}} She also missed out the 2009 Asian Championships in Guangzhou, China, and the Open National Championships in Bhopal, because of her left hamstring injury.{{cite news|last=Das|first=Nilankur|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/sports-news/OtherSports/Injured-Sushmita-may-miss-Asian-meet/Article1-455531.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125131917/http://www.hindustantimes.com/sports-news/OtherSports/Injured-Sushmita-may-miss-Asian-meet/Article1-455531.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2013|title=Injured Sushmita may miss Asian meet|publisher=Hindustan Times|date=17 August 2009|accessdate=10 December 2012}}

Singha Roy eventually came out of rehabilitation in time for her preparation and training to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, representing the host nation India. Singha Roy nearly missed out of the podium after finishing sixth in the women's heptathlon with a total score of 5,120 points.{{cite news|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/commonwealth-games/harminder-gives-india-2nd-athletics-medal-others-disappoint-58301|title=Harminder gives India 2nd athletics medal, others disappoint|publisher=NDTV|date=9 October 2010|accessdate=10 December 2012}}