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| birth_name = 1902-1958<br />
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| birth_place = Sheri Galli, Shahpur, [[Belgaum]], [[Karnataka]], India<ref name=KarnatakasFirstOlympian/><ref name=BelagavisForgottenAndIgnoredOlympians/><br />
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'''Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule''' a.k.a. '''P.D Chaugule''' (1902&ndash;1958) was [[India]]'s first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[marathon]] runner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/71380 |title=Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule |work=Olympedia |access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref> He represented India in the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] in [[Antwerp]], and finished 19th with a time of 2 hours 50 minutes 45.2 seconds.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/phadeppa-chaugule-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417184428/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/phadeppa-chaugule-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule Olympic Results |accessdate=2012-10-08 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref> He hailed from the town of [[Belgaum]] in [[Karnataka]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mumbai Marathon 2004 - Trivia | url=http://www.rediff.com/sports/mum-run04triv.htm}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
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He was born in 1902 or 1905 (no exact records available). His family had a business connected with printing press and agriculture land. PD Chaugule was educated in vernacular (Kannada) medium up to 6th grade and he belonged to [[Belgaum]], Karnataka (then in Bombay Province).<br />
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At the beginning of his career he enjoyed wrestling. He even took part in [[Boxing|bouts]] in [[Akhada]] (arena), but he couldn't continue the sport after he injured his arm. So he started running.<ref name="sportskeeda.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/athletics/pd-chaugule-the-first-indian-at-olympics|title=PD Chaugule, the first Indian at the Olympics|date=29 August 2012|publisher=}}</ref><br />
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He was a strict vegetarian, which caused him a lot of problems while traveling in England and Belgium.<ref name="sportskeeda.com"/><br />
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==Sporting career==<br />
In 1919 he took part in the National Marathon organized by the Deccan Gymkhana Club of Pune (then Poona) and after that in some other marathons such as 10 Miles and 1 Mile events at the All-India Open Amateur Athletic Sports Meet in Mumbai (Bombay). He was the winner in all these marathons.<br />
On 22 August 1920 he ran the Marathon in the Antwerp Olympics and since that point he became the first Indian Olympic participant.<ref name="sportskeeda.com"/><br />
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The house of [[Karnataka]]'s first [[Olympic Games|Olympian]], P D Chaugule is called as '''Pavananjaya'''. He received the title '''Conqueror of the Wind''' from the local community after on 7 December 1919, after the Antwerp Olimpics, where he was among the top-20.<br />
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He died in 1958.<br />
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A postal cover was released in 2003 to honour him, and the Chaugule Shield Cricket Tournament is organised by a local Gymkhana club every year in [[Belagavi]]. <br />
<ref name=KarnatakasFirstOlympian>{{cite news|author=Petlee Peter|title=Karnataka's first Olympian PD Chaugule reduced to fading memories|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/rio-2016-olympics/india-in-olympics-2016/miscellaneous/Karnatakas-first-Olympian-PD-Chaugule-reduced-to-fading-memories/articleshow/53789270.cms|accessdate=20 August 2016|newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name=BelagavisForgottenAndIgnoredOlympians>{{cite news|author=TNN|title=Belagavi's forgotten and ignored Olympians|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubballi/Belagavis-forgotten-and-ignored-Olympians/articleshow/53748181.cms|accessdate=18 August 2016|newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref><br />
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