BENGALURU: World record-holding long jumper Mike Powell today unveiled the logo of the Anju Bobby Sports Foundation at a function here.
The Foundation aims to nurture talent at the teenage level and encourage athletes, particularly in track and field.
It also plans to help talented youth from under-privileged sections of the society to pursue sports as a career and to empower women through sports.
The first batch of athletes will start training at the Sports Authority of India campus here from June 1.
The initial focus would be on horizontal jumps where Anju and her husband and coach Bobby George, a Dronacharya awardee, would be directly involved in the coaching.
Anju, who won the only World Championship medal in athletics, a bronze, for India in long jump in 2003, was guided in the run-up to the World Championships in Paris by Powell in the USA.
The Foundation is a non-profitable charitable trust with Anju as its chairperson and Bobby as its managing trustee.