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Dipa Karmakar (Bengali: দীপা কর্মকার; born 9 August 1993) [1] is an Indian former artistic gymnast. [5] She is the first Indian female gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games. At the 2016 Olympics , in the vault event, she missed a medal by just 0.15 points. [ 6 ]
The Khel Ratna Award (Hindi pronunciation: [kʰeːl rət̪nə]), officially known as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (transl. Major Dhyan Chand Sport Jewel Award) or formerly known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, is the highest sporting honour of India. [1]
Joydeep Karmakar: Shooting: Male 2012 Parupalli Kashyap: Badminton: Male 2012 Anup Kumar: Kabaddi: Male 2012 Rajender Kumar: Wrestling: Male 2012 Deepika Kumari: Archery: Female 2012 Bombayla Devi Laishram: Archery: Female 2012 Deepa Malik: Athletics § Female 2012 Aditya Mehta: Billiards & Snooker: Male 2012 Dipika Pallikal: Squash: Female ...
Dipa Karmakar, Gymnastics - Came fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Conferred with Khel Ratna; Babita Kumari Phogat, Wrestling; Deepika Kumari, Archery - Conferred with Arjuna Award; Deepika Thakur, Hockey - Conferred with Arjuna Award; Dola Banerjee, Archery - Conferred with Arjuna Award; Divya Singh, Basketball
A multiple-exposure image of a gymnast performing the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics.. The handspring double salto forward tucked, known as a Produnova in women's artistic gymnastics and a Roche in men's artistic gymnastics, [1] [2] is a vault consisting of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults in a tucked position off it.
Bishweshwar Nandi is an Indian gymnastics coach. [1] [2] [3] He was also a prolific gymnast himself.[2] [4] He was trained by Dalip Singh. [1]Nandi had been five times National Champion in gymnastics, represented the country in 12 instances and led the Indian gymnastics team six times as captain. [4]
It was Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, from where India's path in gymnastics started taking shape slowly, when Dipa Karmakar from Tripura, a small state of India, went on to win a bronze medal in the Women's vault finale and performed the Produnova vault with a score of 15.1 (D-7, Ex- 8.1). [4]
Dipa Karmakar India 15.066 Olympic Games EF 7 Wang Yan China 14.999 Olympic Games EF 8 Alexa Moreno Mexico 14.950 Anadia Challenge Cup QF Shallon Olsen Canada 14.950 Olympic Games QF 10 Ellie Downie Great Britain: 14.933 Euros EF 11 Marcia Videaux Cuba: 14.925 Anadia Challenge Cup EF 12 Ksenia Afanasyeva Russia 14.753 Euros QF 13 Seda Tutkhalyan