Dipa Karmakar featured in the 2016 Rio Olympics when she became the first Indian female gymnast to take part in the Summer Games. She had qualified for the final of the women's vault event but missed out on a medal by a whisker as she finished fourth.
"My body can’t take the training load as before but I’m technically very strong. Once the competition series starts, I don’t care who’s ahead of me, who’s behind me, I visualise my routine and give it 100 percent. I’m not scared," Dipa Karmakar said.
Pranati Nayak edged past Greece's Athanasia Mesiri in a single-vault tie-break to win the Bronze medal at the World Challenge Cup.
Karmakar said she is looking forward to returning to gymnastics in July this year.
The International Testing Agency on Friday (February 3) suspended India's Dipa Karmakar for 21 months after she was found to have made use of prohibited substance
Karmakar, who finished fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics, has been struggling with injuries ever since she underwent a surgery to treat an Anterior Cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in 2017.
Dipa was left crestfallen after aggravating a knee injury while landing during the first vault final.
The 25-year-old Dipa could only score 10.633 in her balanced beam routine to end at 20th among 25 competitors. She also got penalty points.
A sobbing Dipa blamed it on a jerk felt during the 'podium practice' and insisted she will strive to make up for the lost opportunity by shining in the balancing beam finals.
The 24-year-old from Tripura, who had finished fourth in vault event in the 2016 Rio Olympics, scored 14.150 to win gold.
Pranati will look to make the finals and emulate Dipa, who won a historic bronze in Glasgow four years ago.
Karmakar, 24, was forced out of the Gold Coast CWG (April 4-15) owing to a knee injury she picked up last year.
Karmakar, the first Indian female to compete in the Olympics where she finished a historic fourth in the women's vault at the 2016 Rio Games, opted out of the CWG trials taking place at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Delhi.
The Dronacharya awardee coach Bishweshwar Nandin, who is credited with Dipa's spectacular fourth-place finish in Rio Olympics, said he would take a call only mid-March after seeing his ward's progress.
Dipa Karmakar, who underwent a surgery earlier this year, will return to action in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia.
Dipa Karmakar, who secured a historic fourth-place finish at last year's Rio Olympics, is recovering from a knee surgery.
Indians is second only to China on the list, which has 77 honourees.
India’s first female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics Dipa Karmakar will now be told in a memoir to be co-authored by her coach Bishweshwar Nandi. Tentatively titled "Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder, the
The man who gifted her the car also transferred Rs 25 lakh in Dipa’s bank account when he heard her spell out her troubles in terms of driving and maintaining a BMW car in interior Agartala.
Top News
Latest News
