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Deepa Malik won silver medal in the Rio Paralympics 2016

India's Deepa Malik scripted history when she won the silver medal in the women's shotput F53 event at the Rio Paralympics on Monday, with a personal best throw of 4.61m. With this herculean effort, she became India's first woman and oldest athlete to ever win a medal at the Paralympics. Deepa started off with a throw of 4.26m, then registered 4.49 on her second attempt and 4.41m on the third. On her sixth throw, she recorded a personal best of of 4.61m, which ultimately helped her finish second. "I want to use this medal to support women with disabilities in India. This journey has been wonderful for me and my entire family, I am proud to be the oldest athlete in the team and win a medal." 45-year old told  IANS  after her feat. Deepa Malik with her silver medal at the Rio Paralympics 2016. Facebook/Deepa Malik Spinal tumor to silver medal Deepa is a paraplegic, paralysed from waist down. A spinal tumour confined her to a wheelchair

Olympics 2016 : PV Sindhu wins silver medal

PV Sindhu wins silver medal after going down 21-19, 12-21, 15-21 to Carolina Marin: As it happened PV Sindhu becomes the first Indian woman to clinch a Silver medal at the Olympics. PV Sindhu took the opening game against Spain’s Carolina Marin 21-19 but couldn’t sustain that momentum as the World No 1 came back into the contest to win the next two games 21-12 and 21-15. Sindhu still won hearts all over for her valiant effort and winning the silver medal – the best finish by a shuttler at the Olympics. Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu has beaten Japan's Nozomi Okuhara to make a smashing and historic entry into the badminton finals of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. After beating Okuhara (21-19, 21-10), the 21-year-old Hyderabadi becomes the first Indian to gain an Olympics final spot in Badminton. On Friday, ninth-seeded Sindhu will meet Spain's Carolina Marin for the title clash at 7:30 pm India time. Marin is currently the world No. 1. Sindhu had defeated

Sakshi Malik Rio-2016 Olympics

Sakshi Malik clinches bronze medal in women’s wrestling 58kg category, opens India’s account at Rio 2016 Olympics India’s  Sakshi Malik  won a bronze medal in the wrestling 58kg category after the Indian beat Aisuluu Tynybekova 8-5 in the bronze medal bout. In a thrilling contest, Sakshi fought back from 0-5 down to seal the bout 8-5 in her favour. With seconds left on the clock, she produced a three-point move to seal the bout and India’s first medal at Rio 2016 Olympics. It wasn’t an ideal start for the 23-year-old as she conceded a five-point lead early in the contest, and like in three out of the four bouts earlier in the day, she was back from behind to produce the moves when they mattered, and seal the win. Tynybekova started on a positive note as her leg-grab put her in the lead. She repeated the move again and sat in a comfortable position. Malik opened the scoring in the second period of the bout when she pushed her opponent down and out of the mat. She hit

Dipa Karmakar at RIO Olympics-2016

RIO DE JANEIRO: Indian gymnast  Dipa Karmakar  scripted  history as she became the first Indian to make the cut for the individual vault  finals  in her debut Olympic Games after finishing 8th in the qualifying round here. The Tripura-girl, who is the country's first woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, managed to perform her much-appreciated '  Produnova  ' vault cleanly to secure 14.850 points after two attempts. It was a nervous wait for the Indian after that. She had ended  sixth  after the third of five sub-divisions. She dropped to 8th eventually when Canadian Shallon Olsen's terrific effort of 14.950 rejigged the overall standings. But that was just about enough to secure her a place in the finals scheduled for August 14 as the top-8 made the cut for the medal round. Dipa secured 7.000 on difficulty and 8.1 on execution in her first attempt. Her score for difficulty was a tad lower at 6.000 in the second attempt. She landed low on her Prod

Mamatha Poojary

Mamatha Poojary  ,Kannada fondly known as Kabaddi Queen born in 1986 is an Indian professional internationa lkabaddi player. She is the reigning Captain of the Indian women’s Kabaddi team and has been awarded the Rajyotsava Prashasti, 2nd highest award by the Govt. of Karnataka. On 2nd Sep 2014 she was conferred with the Arjuna Award by President Pranab Mukherjee in recognition of her achievements in Kabaddi. Early life Mamatha Poojary was born in 1986 in a Hindu family to a farmer Boja Poojary and Kitti Poojary in Karkala taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka. She is currently employed by the South Central Railways Zone of Indian Railways. Mamatha finished her schooling in Hermunde and Ajekar and graduated from Gokarnatha College, Mangalore. Career During her school days she was actively involved in sports like volleyball, short-put and kabaddi. But it was the passion for kabaddi that was a clincher. Her hunt for Awards set in motion when she represented Mangalore unive

Divya Singh Basketball player

      Divya Singh  Born 21 July 1982 is former captain of the Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Singh led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality. She has done sports management at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, (UD) in the year 2008 to 2010 and worked as an assistant Women's basketball coach for UD. She was assistant coach of the Under 16 Indian Men's basketball team which participated in Vietnam 2011. She was the assistant coach of the Indian Men's team when India won the bronze medal in Lusophony Games in Goa. She was also a part of the Indian National Women's Basketball Team as an assistant coach in the 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014. She works in MTNL, Delhi. She comes from the Varanasi's "Basketball Family of India" whose four out of five sisters have either played or playing for Indian

Aditi Ashok- Golfer

Aditi Ashok-  Golfer I ndia's Aditi Ashok made history when she became the first from the country to win the Ladies British Amateur stroke play golf championship at the Moortown Golf Club here. The Indian Golf Union's ladies amateur order of merit, Aditi shot four days total of 11-under 285 (71,73,70,71) at the par 74 Moortown Golf Club. The 17-year-old Bangalore girl, who had earlier won the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews in July this year and finished second in the 2015 European Women's Amateur Championship, also claimed the overall title called 'The Nicholls Trophy' as well as the 'Dinwiddy Trophy' given for the lowest score by an U-18 player. Getting into the final round with a four-stroke lead, the 12th grader from The Frank Anthony Public School, Bengaluru carded five birdies and four bogeys in halves of 37-34 and made one eagle on 16th on the final day. "I played consistently over all four days which was the key for me. Though I could
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