Dipa karmakar biography
Dipa karmakar biography
Dipa karmakar vaulting.
Dipa Karmakar
Indian gymnast and Olympic medalist
Dipa Karmakar (born 9 August 1993)[1] is an Indian former artistic gymnast.[5] She is the first Indian female gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games.
At the 2016 Olympics, in the vault event, she missed a medal by just 0.15 points.[6] Karmakar is one of only five women in the world to have mastered the Produnova vault.[7] In 2024, she announced her retirement from gymnastics.[8]
Karmakar first gained attention when she won a bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,[9] becoming the first Indian female gymnast to do so in the history of the Games.[10] She also won a bronze at the Asian Championships and finished fifth at the 2015 World Championships, both firsts for any Indian athlete.
Karmakar represented India at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics.[6][