She won the World Women’s Rapid Championship on December 28, 2019. She is the second Indian to do so, the first one being Vishwanathan Anand.

Hima Das recently won four gold medals in 200m races and another one in a 400m race. She received congratulatory messages from PM Narendra Modi, Sachin Tendulkar and others. She now eyes the World Championships, dreaming to represent India at the next Olympics.

If Hima can add an Olympic medal to her tally, especially a gold, it would be historic since she is just 19. Her peaking records track forces us to believe that this might just be her time to make headlines on the world stage. Clearly she needs to reinvent herself in order to return to winning 200m ways on a bigger international stage like the Olympics.

India’s Apurvi Chandela won the first gold medal with a new world record score in women’s 10m air rifle event at the 2019 ISSF World Cup, which started in New Delhi today. The 10m Air Rifle Women Final took place at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range. Chandela set a new world record of 252.9 points, […]

On 27th June, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manu Bhaker fired her way to an individual gold medal with a world record score. The 16-year-old beat the Chinese and Koreans by a big margin and won the women’s air pistol gold at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany. She is the youngest Indian to […]

Archer Deepika Kumari has won her first individual gold in six years at the Salt Late World cup. She had earlier won four silver medals at the Archery World Cup stage, reported the Indian Express. Why is it huge? She defeated Germany’s Michelle Kroppen in the recurve final with a 7-3 win. Kroppen is the indoor world team […]

India’s Manika Batra clinched a historic gold medal in table tennis with her remarkable singles victories at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. She defeated four-time gold-medallists Singapore 3-1. Biggest Win of Her Career Manika, currently ranked no. 58 in the world, trounced world number 4 and Olympic medallist Feng Tianwei. She then defeated Yihan Zhou in four games to confirm […]

What do you expect an octogenarian to do? Sit back, and enjoy her retired life? However, that’s not what 82-year-old Bhagawati Oza, settled for. A practising gynaecologist from Vadodara, the wonder woman bagged a gold medal at the Masters National Aquatic Championship in Mysuru on Wednesday. Proclivity towards adventure sports Adventure sports has always been […]

The Indian 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team consisting of Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu have become the first athletes to win the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) Crystal Globes. They accomplished the feat today at the Jarni Singh Shooting range in New Delhi. The two pistol shooters were up against France and the People’s Republic of […]