First Indian gymnast to win gold

Current Context : Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to win gold in Asian Senior Championships held in in Tashkent.

• She scored an average of 13.566 in the vault final.
• North Koreans Kim Son Hyang (13.466) and Jo Kyong Byol (12.966) won the silver and bronze medals in this championship.

HER ACHIEVEMENTS :

• She won a gold medal in vault at the 2018 FIG World Cup in Mersin, Turkey.
• She claimed her first international medal, a bronze, at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
• She was the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Summer Olympics, participating in the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she finished fourth in the vault event.
• Dipa Karmakar was bestowed with India’s highest sports honour the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award (now Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award), in 2016.
• She was conferred with India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2017.

INDIAN MEDALLISTS AT ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Surat in 2006 – Ashish Kumar won bronze medal in the individual floor exercise final.
• Hiroshima in 2015 – Dipa Karmakar won bronze in vault individual final.
• Ulaanbaatar in 2019 – Pranati Nayak won bronze in the vault individual final.
• Doha in 2022 – Pranati Nayak won bronze in the vault individual final.
• Tashkent in 2024 – Dipa Karmakar won gold in vault individual final.