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Golden Girl Dipa karmakar and her coach to leave for Brazil on July 30 to attend Rio Olympics
TIWN July 28, 2016
Golden Girl Dipa karmakar and her coach to leave for Brazil on July 30 to attend Rio Olympics
PHOTO : Dipa Karmakar meet Union Minister Menaka Gandhi. TIWN Pic July 28

AGARTALA, July 28 (TIWN): As the date for the Rio Olympic is coming close, the first Indian woman gymnast from Tripura Dipa karmakar is all set to move out for Brazil on July30 to attend the Rio Olympic 2016.

The 2016 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and commonly known as Rio 2016, is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of the Olympic Games due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.

It is to be mentioned here that First Indian woman gymnast Dipa Karmakar and her coach Bisweshwar Nandi will leave for Brazil on 30th July. The Olympics will begin from August 5 and will continue to 21 August.

To say, Golden girl of Tripura Dipa Karmakar has scripted new dimensions in Indian sporting history after selecting in the Rio Olympics as the first Indian gymnast.

Dipa Karmakar has created history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics as she booked a berth for the Rio Games after a strong performance at the final qualifying and test event in Rio.

The 22-year-old garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics in Rio Games which is scheduled to be held here in August. Apart from being the first Indian woman, she will also be an Indian gymnast qualifying for the quadrennial extravaganza after 52 long years.

Since the independence of the country, 11 Indian male gymnasts have taken part in the Olympics (two in 1952, three in 1956 and six in 1964) but this will be the first for an Indian woman at the Olympics.

Dipa has been listed as the 79th gymnast among individual qualifiers in the list of women's artistic gymnast who have qualified for the Rio Olympics.

Her first vault, the much difficult Produnova, gave Dipa 15.066 points, the highest among the 14 competitors. But a poor show in the uneven bars took her points down as she collected 11.700, the second worse among the 14 participants.

The Tripura girl secured 13.366 and 12.566 points in beam and floor exercises. Deepak Kagra, an international referee, said that after's Dipa's strong performance it was certain that she would qualify for Rio Olympics.

Dipa had created history by becoming the first woman gymnast to win a medal, a bronze in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.

 

 

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