Pinki Pramanik (born 10 April 1986 in Purulia) is an Indian former track and field athlete who specialised in 400- and 800-metre events.
Pramanik won two bronze medals at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships at age 17, and represented Asia at the IAAF World Cup.
[3] Pramanik set a record at the National Junior Athletics meet, running 54.92 seconds in the 400 m, although it was uncertain whether she was born in 1986 or 1987.
[5] When Pramanik returned to competition in 2005, she won a gold medal as part of the 4×400 metres relay team at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games with Iyleen Samantha, Santhi Soundarajan, and Mandeep Kaur.
[5] Selected to represent Asia at the 2006 IAAF World Cup, she finished seventh in the 800 m. Pramanik competed in her first Asian Games later that year, in the 400 m and the relay.
In the relay with Sathi Geetha, Chitra Soman and Manjeet Kaur, she won India's only athletics gold of the games.
Returning to fitness by August, she began competing at a regional meet in Kolkata and recorded a 100-metre time of 11.07 seconds.
Pramanik set her sights on winning at the 2008 Indian Inter-State Championships in order to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
I look more male now because, as part of my training to compete in international athletics, I used to be regularly administered testosterone injections like other female participants.
[22][23] Rashmi Rocket, a 2021 Indian sports drama film about the issue of gender testing, was inspired by several athletes including Pramanik and Dutee Chand.