Dipa Karmakar qualified for Rio Olympic Games 2016 becomes the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympic games. Dipa Karmakar had already put India on the global gymnastics map with a medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014. But on Sunday she took that achievement and upped it by qualifying for the Rio Olympics thereby becoming the first Indian female gymnast to qualify for the Olympics . As she readies to go from ‘qualifier’ to ‘medallist’, we highlight ten things about the 22-year-old from Tripura. -Dipa Karmakar’s father is a weightlifting coach and served half a decade in the Andaman Islands training athletes. – Dipa Karmakar was nursing a slight ankle injury in Glasgow at the 2014 Commonwealth Games but still scored 15.100 in the vault event to bag a bronze. Before this attempt, she stood eighth. – Dipa Karmakar began working in gymnastics at the age of 5. Up until the Commonwealth ...