- Saturday, April 27, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Prime minister Narendra Modi led the tributes on Monday (9) for female gymnast Dipa Karmakar who bagged India’s first ever gold medal in a global gymnastic event in Turkey. Karmakar, who participated in her first international competition since narrowly missing an Olympic medal in 2016, won the women’s vault at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Mersin on Sunday. The 24-year-old had recovered from a career-threatening knee injury suffered last year as her average score of 14.150 edged out Indonesia’s Rifda Irfanaluthfi (13.400). “More than the gold, what was important for me was to perform at the optimum level.…
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