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Jagan Kumar

Indian professional motorcycle racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ30674528
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Jagan Kumar (born 21 September 1988) is an Indian professional motorcycle racer who won ten Indian National motorcycle racing championships in the 165cc class. He races for Petronas TVS Racing team. in the fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championships. In February 2022, he won after taking the third place in the 8th of the 9-race, five round 2021 Championship which was extended to 2022 due to COVID-19.

Early life

Jagan Kumar hails from a simple Tamil family in Triplicane, Chennai. His father used to drive an auto-rickshaw for a living. He used to work as a newspaper boy distributing newspapers house to house and as a courier boy to help meet the family needs and support his B.Com. studies. He first went to Madras Motor Sports Club track in 2006 as a fan. Next year he took up racing and participated in his first race in 2007 and showed enough talent to be picked up by TVS Racing in 2009.

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