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Meet Priyanka Dewan: Once A School Dropout Now Winner Of Three Special Olympics Medals
“I get my confidence from her. I just had a dream; I did not have the vision to make it come true. It was my mother who drew the path for me.”
Women athletes from India
Deepa Malik Retires, Will Now Head India’s Paralympic Committee
As per the National Sports Code, an active athlete cannot hold an official post in any federation.
Karnam Malleswari: Meet India’s First Female Bronze Medalist At Olympics
In the Sydney Olympics 2000, Karnam Malleswari won bronze in 69kg category, and became the first Indian women to ever win an Olympic medal.
Asian Weightlifting Championship: Mirabai Chanu Lifts Personal Best
World champion and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Mirabai Chanu has performed her personal best but missed the podium by a whisker. The 25-year-old weightlifter from Manipur finished fourth in the 49kg event at the Asian Weightlifting Championship here Sunday. Mirabai lifted 86kg in snatch and a personal best of 113kg in clean and jerk for a total of 199kg, […]
Mirabai Chanu Looking Forward To Lift 215 kg At 2020 Olympics
World champion and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Mirabai Chanu was on a break for almost four months. Now fully recovered from a severe lower back injury, the 25-year-old weightlifter from Manipur stayed at a rehabilitation centre in Mumbai for months. Mirabai Chanu has now set a target for Tokyo Olympics 2020. She is upgrading the weight bar from […]
ESPN India Awards 2018: PV Sindhu Sportsperson Of The Year
The ESPN India Awards for 2018 has been announced and Sportsperson of the Year (Female) title goes to the country’s top woman Badminton player — PV Sindhu, ESPN reported. In August 2016, Sindhu grabbed the spotlight when she went on to win an Olympic silver medal for India. Also worth mentioning is shuttler Saina Nehwal winning the Comeback of the Year award. What […]
Saina Nehwal Second Highest Earner In Women’s Singles Badminton
One of the top woman Badminton players of our country Saina Nehwal is now the second highest earner in women’s singles, in the first quarter of the new badminton season, with a whopping US$36,825 added to her career earnings, the PTI reported. All England Champion Chen Yufei (USD 86,325) of China is on the top spot of the […]
Elections 2019: Paralympic Games Winner Deepa Malik Joins BJP
Silver medallist at the Rio Paralympics, Deepa Malik, joined BJP on Monday. She joined the party’s Haryana unit, in the presence of state unit chief Subhash Barala and general secretary and in-charge Anil Jain. “We welcome her into the party. She is an inspiration for all of us. She has made the country proud,” Jain said, welcoming Deepa Malik […]
Badminton Nationals: Saina Nehwal Bests Again, Beats PV Sindhu
It was the ultimate game of PV Sindhu vs Saina Nehwal at the 83rd Senior National Badminton Championships where two of the country’s top women Badminton players — PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal – were up against each other, again. In a much-awaited event, Nehwal won the clash and emerged victorious against Sindhu on Saturday. It is her fourth […]
We Want Sports Medals, But Do We Have Facilities, Infra?
“We have Asian Games now and then World Championship is also approaching but things still stand where it was before. Food quality (at training Centres) has got better but lot of things need to be changed,” says wrestler Vinesh Phogat ahead of the Asian Games. The 23-year old Vinesh from Haryana won gold medals at the […]
