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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995), popularly known as PV Sindhu, is an Indian badminton player. [6] Considered as one of India's most successful athletes, Sindhu has won medals at various tournaments such as the Olympic Games , the World Championships , and on the World Tour .
P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian player to win the gold medal at the World Championships and also became the only other woman singles player along with China's Zhang Ning to have won five World Championship medals. [6] Japanese Kento Momota, and the duo Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara retained their titles from the previous edition.
P. V. Sindhu (champion) Malvika Bansod (second round) Aakarshi Kashyap (first round) Pornpicha Choeikeewong (second round) Anupama Upadhyaya (second round)
Badminton star Pusarla Venkata (PV) Sindhu became the first Indian woman to take home two individual Olympic medals after winning the women's singles bronze medal on Sunday at the Tokyo Games.
P. V. Sindhu India: Kirsty Gilmour Scotland: Women's doubles details Malaysia (MAS) Chow Mei Kuan Vivian Hoo England (ENG) Lauren Smith Sarah Walker India (IND) Ashwini Ponnappa N. Sikki Reddy: Mixed doubles details England (ENG) Chris Adcock Gabby Adcock England (ENG) Marcus Ellis Lauren Smith Malaysia (MAS) Chan Peng Soon Goh Liu Ying: Mixed ...
Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is managed by the Badminton Association of India which is associated with Badminton Asia and Badminton World Federation.. Indian shuttlers Prakash Padukone, Srikanth Kidambi, Jwala Gutta, Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, H. S. Prannoy, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have all ranked in the world's top ten.
She won the bronze medal in Women's 58 kg freestyle wrestling. This was the first Olympics for India where all the medallists (2) were women. [11] P. V. Sindhu, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain made India proud by winning medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. [12]
The other two medalists from 2016, silver medalist P. V. Sindhu of India and bronze medalist Nozomi Okuhara of Japan, both qualified with Top-10 rankings. P. V. Sindhu was also the reigning world champion and the only one of the three former Olympic medalists to be medalled again where she won the bronze medal.