Career
Born in Satara district of Maharashtra, Lalita Shivaji Babar belongs to the family of farmers and trains under Nikolai Snesarev. Babar began her career in track and field athletics as a long-distance runner. In the process, she broke the national record held by Sudha Singh.
But after disqualification of the gold medallist Ruth Jebet from Bahrain, Lalita was promoted to the silver medal.
In the process, she qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Babar went on to shatter the national record again at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a time of 9:27.86 in her qualifying heat.
Being the first Indian woman to qualify for the steeplechase final, she placed eighth in the final.