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{{Short description|Indian sprinter}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name = Stephie D'Souza
|image =
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|caption =
|fullname = Stephanie D'Souza
|nationality = Indian
|employer = [[Indian Railways]]
|birth_date = 26 December 1936
|birth_place = [[Goa]], India
|nickname = Flying Rani<ref>http://binoonair.blogspot.in/2010/03/sorry-maam-hockey-is-dead-you-live.html</ref>
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|09|11|1936|12|26|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Jamshedpur]], India
|height = {{convert|5|ft|2|in|cm|sigfig=3|abbr=on}}
|weight = {{convert|110|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport = [[Track and field]]
|event = [[Sprint (running)|Sprint]]
|club =
|alma_mater = Sardar Dastur Girls School<br>[[Fergusson College]]
|retired =
|coaching =
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|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport | [[File:Athletics pictogram.svg|center|40px]] Women's track and field}}
{{MedalCountry | {{IND}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Asian Games]]}}
[[File:Asian Games logo.svg|center|40px]]
{{MedalGold|[[1954 Asian Games|1954 Manila]]|[[Athletics at the 1954 Asian Games|4×100 m relay]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1958 Asian Games|1958 Tokyo]]|[[Athletics at the 1958 Asian Games|200 m]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1958 Asian Games|1958 Tokyo]]|[[Athletics at the 1958 Asian Games|4×100 m relay]]}}
}}

'''Stephanie "Stephie" D'Souza''', ''nee'' '''Sequeira''' (26 December 1936 – 11 September 1998) was a sportsperson who represented [[India]] in [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]] and [[field hockey|women's hockey]].

==Early life==
Stephanie "Stephie" D Souza, inheritably Sequeira, was born on 26 December 1936. She studied at the Sardar Dastur Girls School at Pune, and later shifted to the Fergusson College to do her graduation. She worked with Central Railways (Pune Division). After her marriage, she shifted to Jamshedpur.<ref>http://www.sportsbharti.com/athletics/whos-who/stephie-dsouza/</ref>

D'Souza was part of the Indian team that won the gold in the 4 × 100 m relay in the [[1954 Asian Games]] (with [[Violet Peters]], [[Chirstine Brown]] and [[Mary D'Souza]]) and a bronze in [[1958 Asian Games|1958]]. She won a silver in the 200 m, creating an Asian record in the semifinal, and finished fourth in the 100 m in the latter competition. At one point, she held the national records in 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 800 m. She was the first Indian woman to complete 100m in 12 seconds, beating the previous record of 12.1 by [[Mary D'Souza Sequeira|Mary D'Souza]], at [[Poona|Pune]] in 1956.<ref>Indian Express, December 24, 1956</ref>

She was eliminated in the first round of the 400 m in the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] after finishing sixth despite setting a national record of 58.0 seconds. She took part in the 100 yards and 220 yards sprints in the [[1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|1958 Commonwealth Games]]. D'Souza represented India in the first international women's hockey tournament in [[London]] in 1953 and captained the side in 1961.

Stephie D'Souza won the [[Arjuna Award]] presented by the Government of India. She died in [[Jamshedpur]] (Jharkhand) at the age of 61.

===National and international competitions<ref>http://www.sportsbharti.com/athletics/whos-who/stephie-dsouza/</ref>===
{|{{AchievementTable|Event=yes}}
|
|
|-
|rowspan=1|1954
|rowspan=1|Asian Games
|rowspan=1|[[Manila]]
|style="background:gold;"|1st
|4x100 metres
|data-sort-value="049.5"|49.5
|-
|rowspan=1|1954
|rowspan=1|Asian Games
|rowspan=1|[[Manila]]
|4th
|200 metres
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1957
|rowspan=2|National championship
|rowspan=2|
|style="background:Gold;"|1st
|100 metres
|
|-
|style="background:gold;"|1st
|200 metres
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1958
|rowspan=2|Asian Games
|rowspan=2|Tokyo
|style="background:silver;"|2nd
|200 metres
|data-sort-value="026.2"|26.2
|-
|style="background:#c96;"|3rd
|400 metres relay
|data-sort-value="49.4"|49.4
|-
|rowspan=2|1958
|rowspan=2|Commonwealth Games
|rowspan=2|Cardiff
|Eliminated in heats
|100 metres and 200 metres
|
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[List of Indian women athletes]]

== Bibliography ==

* [[K. R. Wadhwaney|K.R. Wadhwaney]], ''Arjuna Awardees'', Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 2002, {{Listed Invalid ISBN|81-230-0286-0}}

==References==
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[[Category:Olympic athletes of India]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Goa]]
[[Category:Indian Roman Catholics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]
[[Category:Indian female sprinters]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian people]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for India]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Field hockey players from Goa]]
[[Category:Athletes from Goa]]
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for India]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Olympic female sprinters]]

Stephie D'Souza - Revision history

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