Indian Women in RIO Olympics 2016
By Pallavi
What is trending everywhere these days?? Well, may be all of you might be having numerous answers but I am sure majority of you will say RIO Olympics.
The 2016 Summer Olympics or RIO Olympics is an International multi-sport event being hosted by Brazil. Athletes of different sports from all over the world are competing against each other. And by God’s grace some other sport in India other than cricket has become the talk of the town and the highlight in RIO Olympics for India are the women athletes. They are large number of women athletes representing our country and making us proud. But we are very sure that many of you might not know them. So, here out of my overdose of patriotic feeling below is the list of Indian women athletes at Rio Olympics who are raising not only the Indian flag high but also our pride too –
1. Deepika Kumari: She is representing our country in Women’s Individual Archery who is currently ranked at world no. 5 and is a former world no. 1. She has also been a proud recipient of Arjuna award in the year 2012. Deepika with 640 points has secured the 20th position.
2. Aditi Ashok: She created history by becoming first and youngest Indian to win the Lalla Aicha tour School hence obtaining her 2016 ladies PGA tour card. At Rio she is currently at the third round of competition where she is just 4 strokes away of making it to the top.
3. Dipa Karmakar: Hailing from a Bengali family she was serious about her passion in gymnastics right since the age of 8. She gained limelight at 2014 commonwealth games where she won bronze for India. At Rio 2016, she attained fourth position with an overall score of 15.066.
4. Sakshi Malik – Born at Rohtak, she is a live example of making it big inspite of being from a small town. At the age of 12, she thought seriously about wrestling by drawing inspiration from her grandfather. She became the first women wrestler to win a bronze for India.
5. PV Sindhu – She hails from a family of professional volleyball players who have been a recipient of many prestigious awards. Do you know she used to travel a distance of 56 Km. every day to practice? Well, as they say the victory tastes sweet only when you have made serious efforts. We can’t stop congratulating her on being the first women to win individual silver.
6. Lalita Babbar: The 27 year old long distance runner became the talk of the town when she won Mumbai Marathon for the 3rd time making it hat-trick. At Rio 2016, she finished at the 10th position in the final race.
We have mentioned a few women only here who made a commendable performance at Rio but there are many other who also made our country proud at the biggest sporting event. All these women are making each and every Indian proud at Rio Olympics and we wish all of them ’All the Best’ and hope they add will many more feathers to the Olympic medals cap of our country.
What do you feel about these Indian women in Olympics? I am so so proud!!