5 Sports in which India can win a medal in Tokyo 2020

Deep Parikh | 22/08/2016
Dipa Karmakar

3) Gymnastics

Source: indianolympics.com
Source: indianolympics.com

Dipa Karmakar became the first women gymnast to qualify for Olympics as she booked a berth for her in the Rio games after her stellar performance in world championship in 2015. She became the first female gymnast to qualify for the quadrennial mega event after 52 years.

Karmakar is one of the five women that have successfully landed the very difficult Produnova vault in competition, also holding the highest score amongst all (15.100) in her attempt. She comes from a remote state Tripura where infrastructure is rudimentary.

In spite of her not winning a medal in the games she has won billions of hearts and inspired a huge amount of people coming from remote states where infrastructural facilities are not up to the mark to pick up the game and excel.

Therefore after such a stellar show in this Olympics we at least expect a podium finish from some of our gymnast in the next game.

Post Edited By: Utkarsh Bhatla

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