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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu was born on 5 July 1995, in Hyderabad, India, into the Telugu-speaking family of P. V. Ramana and P. Vijaya. [18] [19] Both her parents hail from Andhra Pradesh. [19] [20] Her mother is from Vijayawada, while her father's family is originally from Eluru and later moved to Guntur and Nirmal, where he was born.
He coached Indian badminton superstar, P. V. Sindhu from July until December 2023. [3] Personal life
Their elder daughter, P. V. Divya, is a doctor [12] by profession and played netball [12] at the national level. Their younger daughter, P. V. Sindhu , is a badminton player who is a two-time Olympic medallist, having won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics , and a World Champion, having won the ...
P. V. Sindhu, badminton world champion [12] On 8 March 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day, the BBC announced P. V. Sindhu as Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2019 at a ceremony held in Delhi. [13] Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (India) Kiren Rijiju was present as the guest of honour at the event.
P. V. V. Lakshmi married fellow badminton player Pullela Gopichand on 5 June 2002. [8] They have two children, a daughter named Gayatri Gopichand and a son named Vishnu. Gayathri, who is the elder of the two siblings, is an international women's doubles badminton player for India. Her son Vishnu is also training at the Gopichand Academy.
En route to the finals she beat 3 seeded players Chen Yufei, P. V. Sindhu and Ratchanok Intanon. However she finished second-best after losing the final to Tai Tzu-ying. [ 107 ] She won her second gold in Commonwealth Games women's singles after beating P. V. Sindhu in the final [ 108 ] and led the Indian team to another gold medal in the mixed ...
[3] [9] [10] Earlier in 2019, she helped India get its first gold in BWF World Championships in Basel where P. V. Sindhu became India's first badminton player to become World Champion. [11] [12] She worked as a coach for Indian national team until September 2019 when she resigned to take care of her ailing husband. [13]
Sakshi Malik (born 3 September 1992) is a former Indian freestyle wrestler.At the 2016 Summer Olympics, [9] she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics.