Sakshi Malik

Sakshi Malik (born 3 September 1992) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won
the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics
and the fourth female Olympic medalist from the country.[6][7] She is a part of the JSW Sports Excellence
Program, along with fellow female wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat.[8]

Malik had previously won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and the bronze
medal at the 2015 Asian Wrestling Championships in Doha.[9][10]

Early life[edit]

Malik was born on 3 September 1992 in Mokhra village[11] of Haryana's Rohtak district to Sukhbir, a bus
conductor with Delhi Transport Corporation, and Sudesh Malik, a supervisor at a local health
clinic.[12][13] According to her father, she was motivated to take up wrestling from seeing her grandfather Badlu
Ram, who was also a wrestler.[12][14] She began training in wrestling at the age of 12 under a coach, Ishwar
Dahiya, at an akhara in Chhotu Ram Stadium, Rohtak.to

Career[edit]

Malik's first success as a professional wrestler in the international arena came in 2010 at the Junior World
Championships where she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg freestyle event.[15] At the 2014 Dave Schultz
International Tournament, she won gold in the 60 kg category.And after that she never stopped and maintained
the passion and dedication towards the game.

2014[edit]
Malik began her campaign at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games winning her quarterfinal bout against
Edwige Ngono Eyia of Cameroon by a 40 margin. In the semifinal, she faced Braxton Stone of Canada whom
she defeated 31 to assure herself of a medal. Her opponent in the final was Aminat Adeniyi of Nigeria who
defeated her 40 in a closely contested bout.[16] At the 2014 World Championships in Tashkent, she faced Anta
Sambou of Senegal in the Round of 16, and won the bout 41. She crashed out of the tournament after a 13
loss to Petra Olli of Finland.[17]

2015[edit]
At the 2015 Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar, in a total of five rounds in the 60 kg category, Malik battled
through two rounds to finish in third position and claim a bronze medal. In the first round, she faced Luo Xiaojuan
of China but was beaten 45 by fall verdict. She came back strongly in the second round to beat Munkhtuya
Tungalag of Mongolia 130, before losing in the third round to Yoshimi Kayama of Japan. She was able to clinch
the bronze medal in the fourth round, beating Ayaulym Kassymova of Kazakhstan.[18]

2016[edit]
Malik qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics by defeating China's Zhang Lan in the semifinal of the 58 kg category
at the Olympic World qualifying tournament in May 2016.[19] At the Olympics, she won her Round of 32 bout
against Sweden's Johanna Mattsson and Round of 16 bout against Moldova's Mariana Cherdivara. After losing
to eventual finalist Valeria Koblova of Russia in the quarterfinal, she qualified for the repechage round where she
defeated Prevdorjiin Orkhon of Mongolia in her first bout. She won the bronze medal after a 85 victory over
the reigning Asian champion Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan, despite trailing 05 at one stage, in the
repechage medal playoff, and became India's first female wrestler to win an Olympic medal.[20]
P. V. Sindhu
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian professional badminton player, who
is currently world no 4 in the BWF World Ranking. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Indian
woman to win an Olympic silver medal. She is one of the two Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic
medal other being Saina Nehwal. She was also a silver medalist at the 2017 BWF World Championships and, in
2017, became first Indian ever to win Korea Open Super Series.

Sindhu came to international attention when she broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in September
2012 at the age of 17.[5] In 2013, she became the first ever Indian women's singles player to win a medal at
the Badminton World Championships. In March 2015, she is the recipient of India's fourth highest civilian honor,
the Padma Shri.[6] Her silver medal win in the women's singles event of the 2016 Summer Olympics made her
the first Indian shuttler to reach the final of an Olympics badminton event and the youngest Indian to make a
podium finish in an individual event at the Olympics.[7]

Childhood and early training[edit]

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu was born to P. V. Ramana of Eluru, West Godavari district and P. Vijaya
of Vijayawada, Krishna district. She lives in Hyderabad. In 2000, Ramana was awarded Arjuna Award for his
sport.[8][9] Though her parents played professional volleyball, Sindhu chose badminton over it because she drew
inspiration from the success of Pullela Gopichand, the 2001 All England Open Badminton Champion.[10] She
eventually started playing badminton from the age of eight.[8]

Sindhu first learned the basics of the sport with the guidance of Mehboob Ali at the badminton courts of Indian
Railway Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications in Secunderabad. Soon after, she joined
Pullela Gopichand's Gopichand Badminton Academy badminton academy.[10] While profiling Sindhu's career, a
correspondent with The Hindu wrote:

The fact that she reports on time at the coaching camps daily, travelling a distance of 56 km from her residence,
is perhaps a reflection of her willingness to complete her desire to be a good badminton player with the required
hard work and commitment.[10]

Gopichand seconded this correspondent's opinion when he said that "the most striking feature in Sindhu's game
is her attitude and the never-say-die spirit."[11] After joining Gopichand's badminton academy, Sindhu won
several titles. In the under-10 years category, she won the 5th Servo All India ranking championship in the
doubles category and the singles title at the Ambuja Cement All India ranking. In the under-13 years category,
Sindhu won the singles title at the Sub-juniors in Pondicherry, doubles titles at the Krishna Khaitan All India
Tournament, IOC All India Ranking, the Sub-Junior Nationals and the All India Ranking in Pune. She also won
the under-14 team gold medal at the 51st National School Games in India.[8]

Career[edit]

In the international circuit, Sindhu was a bronze medallist at the 2009 Sub-Junior Asian Badminton
Championships held in Colombo.[12]At the 2010 Iran Fajr International Badminton Challenge, she won the silver
medal in the singles category.[13] Sindhu reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 Junior World Badminton
Championships that was held in Mexico.[14] She was a team member in India's national team at the 2010 Uber
Cup.[15].

2012[edit]
Aditi Ashok
Aditi Ashok (born 29 March 1998) is an Indian professional golfer who took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career[edit]

Aditi became the youngest and first Indian to win the Lalla Aicha Tour School and secured her Ladies European

Tour card for the 2016 season.[2] This win also made her the youngest winner of a Q School for an international

tour.[3] Aditi is the first and the only Indian golfer who played the Asian Youth Games (2013), Youth Olympic

Games (2014), Asian Games (2014) and Olympic Games (2016).

Aditi won the 2016 Hero Women's Indian Open with a score of 3-under-par 213, and in the process became the

first Indian to win a Ladies European Tour title.[4] She picked up a second win two weeks later at the Qatar Ladies

Open and finished the season second on the Order of Merit. She won the Rookie of the Year award.[5] She also

gained a LPGA Tour card for 2017 via the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.

Personal life[edit]

Aditi was born on 29 March 1998 in Bangalore. She studied at The Frank Anthony Public School in Bangalore and

graduated in 2016.[6] She started playing golf at the age of 5; her father Pandit Gudlamani Ashok is

her caddy.[7][8]

Amateur wins[edit]

2011 USHA Karnataka Junior, Southern India Junior, Faldo Series Asia - India, East India Tolly Ladies, All

India Championship

2012 USHA Delhi Ladies, USHA Army Championship, All India Junior

2013 Asia Pacific Junior Championship

2014 Eastern India Ladies Amateur, USHA IGU All India Ladies & Girls Championship

2015 Army Ladies & Junior Championship, St Rule Trophy, Southern India Ladies & Junior Girls

Championship, Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Thailand Amateur Open

Source:[9]
Deepika Kumari
Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian athlete who competes in the event of Archery, is

currently ranked World No. 5, and is a former world number one.[3][4] She won a gold medal in the 2010

Commonwealth games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold medal in the same

competition in the women's team recurve event along with Dola Banerjee andBombayala Devi.[5]

Kumari qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the Women's

Individual and Women's teamevents, finishing in eighth place in the latter.[6]

She was conferred the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award in the year 2012 by President of

India Pranab Mukherjee.[7] In February 2014, she was honored with FICCI Sportsperson of the Year

Award.[8] The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016.[9]

Early life[edit]

Deepika Kumari was born to Shivnarayan Mahato, an auto-rickshaw driver and Geeta Mahato, a nurse at Ranchi

Medical College. Her parents live at Ratu Chati village, 15 km away from Ranchi. As a child, she practised

archery while aiming for mangoes with stones.[10] In the early days it was rather difficult for the parents to

financially support Deepika's dream, often compromising on the family budget to buy her new equipment for her

training; as a result, Deepika practised archery using homemade bamboo bows and arrows. Deepika's cousin

Vidya Kumari, then an archer residing at Tata Archery Academy, helped her develop her talent.

Career[edit]

Deepika Kumari in 2011, withPurnima Mahato

Deepika made her first breakthrough in 2005 when she entered Arjun Archery Academy, an institute set up by
Meera Munda, wife of chief minister of the state Shri. Arjun Munda at Kharsawan. But her professional archery
journey began in the year 2006 when she joined the Tata Archery Academy in Jamshedpur. It was here that she
started her training with both the proper equipment as well as a uniform. She also received Rs 500 as a stipend.
Deepika returned home once in her first three years there, only after having won the Cadet World Championship
title in November 2009.[11]

Achievements[edit]

Deepika became the second Indian to win the title after Palton Hansda won the junior compound competition at

the 2006 Archery World Cup in Mrida, Mexico.[12]

Lalita Babar
Lalita Babar (born 2 June 1989) is an Indian long-distance runner. She was born in a small village in the Satara
district,Maharashtra. She predominantly competes in the 3000 metres steeplechase and is the current Indian national
record holder and the reigning Asian Champion in the same event.

Babar was named as the Sports Person of the Year in the India Sports Awards 2015 organised by Federation of
Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of India.She was
recently honored with prestigious Arjuna Award 2016 by the President of India for her contribution in the field of
athletics. She is currently supported by Anglian Medal Hunt Company.

Early life and junior career[edit]

Babar was born on 2 June 1989 in Mohi, a village in Satara district, in the Indian State of Maharashtra into a family
of farmers.[1] She was born in an area which was regularly affected by droughts, which adversely affects the
agriculture in the area.[2]

Babar started her career in athletics as a long-distance runner at a young age. She won her first Gold medal in
the U-20 National Championships at Pune in 2005.[3]

She is currently supported by Anglian Medal Hunt Company, a sports management company based in New
Delhi.[4]

Career[edit]

Babbar (first from left) during the 2016 Summer Olympics women's 3000 metres steeplechase final.

Babar began her career in track and field athletics as a long-distance runner.

In 2014, she became the hat-trick winner of the Mumbai Marathon.[5] Determined to win a medal in multi-
discipline events like theAsian Games and Commonwealth Games, she switched to 3000 metres steeplechase in
January 2014, following her win at the marathon. At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, she won the
bronze medal clocking 9:35.37 in the final. In the process, she broke the national record held by Sudha
Singh.[6] But after disqualification of the gold medallist Ruth Jebet from Bahrain, Lalita was promoted to the silver
medal.[7]

At the 2015 Asian Championships, Babar won the gold medal clocking 9:34.13 and broke her own personal record,
the Indian national record and the games record. In the process, she qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
She also qualified for 2016 Summer Olympic in Marathon with her personal best of 2:38:21 at Mumbai Marathon
2015.[8] She went on to break the record again at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a time of 9:27.86
in her qualifying heat.[9] Being the first Indian woman to qualify for the steeplechase final, she placed eighth in
the final.[10][11]

In April 2016, she again bettered the national record with a time of 9:27.09 at the Federation Cup National
Athletics Championships in New Delhi.[12] At the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, she bettered it with a time of
9:19.76 in her heat, qualifying to the final, and in the process became the first Indian in 32 years to enter a final
in any track event.[13] At the final, she finished 10th with a time of 9:22.74.[14]