FULL NAME: Mohammed Azam (Fondly known as Peru)
GENDER: Male
BORN: 1st January, 1972
HOME ADDRESS: Plot No 1164, Phase-II, Dumduma Housing Board Colony, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
PARENTS: Late Mohammad Nayeem (Father), Sustari Begum (Mother)
PROFESSION: Business
ROLE IN SPORTS: Versatile sportsperson and sports promoting official

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AS SPORTSPERSON:
*     Represented Odisha in All-India Open Gateball Tournament in 2013.
*     Represented Odisha softball team in East Zone Championship once and in Senior National Championship twice.
*     Represented Odisha in Senior National Baseball Championship for two years (1999 and 2000).
*     Played football for Club-73, Bhubaneswar for 10 years.

CONTRIBUTION AS SPORTS PROMOTER:
*     Introduced many sports disciplines, including gateball, soft tennis, woodball, flying disc in Odisha.
*     Promoted baseball and soft tennis.

POSTS HELD:
*     Functioning as secretary of Odisha Soft Tennis Association since 2004.
*     Functioning as secretary of Odisha Woodball Association.
*     Functioning as secretary of Odisha Gateball Association.

EXPERIENCE AS OFFICIAL:
*     Selected as technical official for the soft-tennis competition of the 18th Asian Games to be held at Jakarta from Aug 28 to Sept 1, 2018.
*     Peformed as umpire in 15th World Soft Tennis Championship at New Delhi from Nov 17-21, 2015.
*     Peformed as coach of Indian U-15 boys team in the 2nd World Junior Soft Tennis Championship at Ahmedabad in 2014.
*     Peformed as the assistant coach of Indian women team in the 14th World Soft Tennis Championship in South Korea in 2011.
*     Peformed as the assistant coach of Indian soft tennis team in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
*     Represented India in the 13th World Soft Tennis Championship in South Korea in 2007.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: January 3, 2016
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: August 16, 2018