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PV Sindhu a Pride of India
Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit8/26/2019 9:40:54 PM
P.V. Sindhu deserves a big applause for becoming the first Indian to win a Badminton World Championships gold by beating familiar rival Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in a lop-sided final. All recognition goes to Sindhu for trusting her instincts and playing with supreme confidence. Sindhu has now become a household name after her remarkable achievement. She has been able to draw the nation's attention towards herself through her commendable achievements as she has been the most consistent performer in the World Championships in the last few years. She is now India's only gold medal winner at the World Badminton Championship.
She had already received great accolades when she became the first Indian women in Singles to win a medal at the Badminton world championship in the year 2013. With her growing success in her field of sport, she was awarded the Padma Shri award, making her the youngest recipient of India's fourth highest civilian honor in 2015. It reveals the fact that today women can compete in sports, once a vestige of male domination; there is now room for women in that arena.
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu became the first Indian woman to grab a Silver Medal for our Country in the Olympics. After Saina Newal, P V Sindhu is the next Indian Badminton player to ever win an Olympic medal. In 2015, she received India's fourth highest civilian honor, the Padma Shri.
It was observed that compared to men's participation in sports, women sports are newer and is the reason for them not getting the recognition they deserve. But the world of sports has now begun to see how women's sports can be just as interesting and exciting as men's sports can be. P.V. Sindhu now remains to be the pride of the nation, who created history by winning the first ever silver medal and has inspired the youth to look forward to badminton as a career objected sport. Sindhu has marked her foot prints in the history of Indian Sports through various records and achievements. She is the youngest ever Indian who made a Podium finish at the Olympics, that too, in an Individual Event, She is the first Indian Shuttler to reach the Olympics Badminton Event's Finals and the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Badminton World Championships (in Women's Singles) and at the age of 17, She became one of the top 20 players of the BWF World Ranking and that is how she became a pioneer in Indian Sports History. In the 51st National School Games in India, she has won the gold medal in the under-14 category.
She scripted history by becoming the first woman from India to win Gold at WBC. She did a fabulous job and made all the people of India proud. She has now proved that women are not weak and with hard work, determination and commitment - One can achieve. Sindhu is an example to all fathers who feel that their daughters should not enter the sports field. She is now a role model and will encourage other youngsters to take up sport in a big way.
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