Sprinter Animesh Kujur, on a lark, approached a foreign coach at last year’s Under-23 meet in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, and asked to be taken under his wings. As luck would have it, Englishman Martin Owens was open to the idea. Owens, the head coach of the Odisha Reliance Foundation Athletics HPC, asked Kujur to first appear for selection trials. “I asked him if he even knew who I was and he said ‘no’. Then introduced myself and told him that he would have to undergo trials at the high-performance centre (HPC) in Odisha,” Owens recalled. This was a turning point for Kujur. Kujur, 20, has scorched the track by clocking an impressive 20.62 seconds to win the 200 metres gold at the Federation Cup in Bhubaneshwar, the second-best time ever by an Indian after Amalan Borgohain’s 20.52, the national record. He also qualified for the 100 metre final, making him the sprinter to watch out for. The Kujur-Owens partnership has started showing results. “I had no idea who he was. I just saw that a foreigner …