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K. J. Manoj Lal

Indian Olympics athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ107598270 ↗
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K. J. Manoj Lal (born 16 May 1978) is an Indian Olympic athlete from Kerala. He was coached by Thankachan Mathew and represented India at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He ran 400 metres in 46.01 seconds. This was bested later by Kerala's K. M. Binu who did it in 45.59 seconds. K. J. Manoj Lal also won silver medals at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships and 2002 Asian Games for 4 × 400 metres relay.

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This entry incorporates text from “K. J. Manoj Lal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.