T. C. Yohannan
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| Full name | Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1947 Maranadu, Kingdom of Travancore, British India (present day Kollam, Kerala, India) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 8.07 (Tehran 1974) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan (born 19 May 1947), is a former Indian long jumper who held the national record in long jump for nearly 3 decades and represented India in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He hails from the state of Kerala. Yohannan will be known for the new dimension he gave to long jump in India in 1974, the occasion was the Tehran Asian Games of 1974. Yohannan cleared a distance of 8.07 metres at the Tehran Asian Games for a new Asian record.