Hiriyur Manjunath Jyothi (born 1 July 1983)[1][2][3] is an Indian sprinter and Commonwealth games medalist.

[4][5] Despite wanting to win a medal at Asian games, she couldn’t continue sprint due to persistent achilles injury.

Jyothi was born to father H. N. Manjunath[13] and mother Thippamma[13] in Hiriyur, Karnataka (near Chitradurga), on 1 July 1983.

[13] Jyothi has been strongly supported by her parents, who have undergone great financial hardship to finance her ambitions.

[citation needed] She credited her husband with helping her, saying in 2014 that "Being a former medalist at the Asian level he understands my problems.