Top 10 famous sports couples in India

#3 Anju Bobby George - Robert Bobby Geeorge

Anju Bobby George & her husbad and coach Robert Bobby George

Anju Bobby George and Robert Bobby George, the athletics couple from Kerala features in the list at the No 8 spot.

Anju was the torchbearer of Indian athletics in the early 2000s and quickly established herself as the long jump queen in the country. But she had started her career in other track and field events, including hurdles, relay, high jump and triple jump bagging medals at the national level before concentrating on the long jump event alone.

Shewon bronze at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and a gold at the Asian Games and created history by becoming the first athlete to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships in 2003. But her highest achievement came in 2005 when she clinched the gold medal at the World Athletics Finals in 2005. She was awarded the Arjuna award in 2002 and went one better winning the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award the following year.

Her husband Robert is a former national champion in triple jump and is Anjus coach as well. He bagged the Dronacharya award after Anju bagged medals at the World Championships and he has revealed that he has been a constant support to his wife in more ways than one.

In the beginning when I had married Anju, she did not know how to cook as she was busy in the sports field and I was the one who used to cook, but now, she is far better than me, Robert toldManorama.