Iconic Athletes

   Pusarla  Venkata Sindhu is an Indian Badminton player. She became the first Indian woman to win a silver at the Olympics.  P.V.Sindhu won Gold medal at Badminton World Championships Sindu was born on 5 July 1995 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to P.V. Ramana and P.Vijaya. Both her parents have been national level volleyball players. she was good at studies at her school time. she started playing badminton when she was just 8 and a half year old. she played it for enjoyment but soon she realised that she wanted to make her career in it. she started her coaching at the Indian Railway Institute in Secunderabad to learn the basics of badminton and then she joined Pullela Gopichand's badminton academy to enhance her skills. Sindhu came to international attention when she broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in September 2012 at the age of just 17. She finished as runner-up in the 2010 Iran Fajr International Badminton Challenge and reached the quarterfina...

  Apoorv Arora is a all rounder cricketer. He is a right hand batsman and right arm fast bowler. He had played 14 National and State tournament and had played various tournaments all over India.  Apoorv Arora 1. Tell me something about yourself as when you started playing and what are your hobbies and interests beside sports? I started playing when I was 6 year old . I started my proper coaching at the age of 9 years. Talking about my hobbies as I'm a extrovert kind of person so I love talking to people and express myself. 2. Who is your role model and why? My role model is Virat Kohli  because of his temperament. I just love the way he plays and handles the situation in matches. Virat Kohli is my role model because of his fitness and the way he handles the pressure on Team India is just absolutely amazing to see a person doing these things at one time. 3. What is your opinion about Indian Cricket team? Indian team right now is one of the toughest to be beaten in any form...

 Badal Teotia is a National level Athletics player. He was born in Kisoli Village, Bulandsher District, Uttar Pradesh. He belongs to a Farmer Family. He had run in three 12 hour stadium run, Chambal challenge trail run, Trail a thon, Starry Night Marathon, Hot ultra Jaipur, Wings marathon, Kangra trail and had represented 6 hour Ultra Running team of Athletic Federation of India. Badal Teotia at Starry Night Marathon 1. When you started playing professionally?   I play sports since my school days but can't continue due to some reasons. Then one day I came to know about Ultra running that is any distance more than 42.195 KMs.. So, I thought this is something different and challenging too then I decided to give it a chance and it was December 2017. It was my first 12 hour stadium run in Delhi. Then I googled more about Ultra running and came to know that we have a chance to represent India at international level in Ultra running, then I decided to emphasize it in a professional...

  Deepika Kumari, currently ranked World No. 9 in Archery. She was born on 13 June 1994 to father Shivnarayan Mahato, an auto-rickshaw driver and mother Geeta Mahato, a nurse at Ranchi Medical College in a Prajapati Family in Ranchi, Jharkhand. As a child, she practised archery while aiming for mangoes with stones.Deepika practised archery using homemade bamboo bows and arrow. Deepika's cousin Vidya Kumari, then a archer residing at Tata Archery Academy, helped her develop her talent. Deepika Kumari at Archery Academy Deepika made her first breakthrough in 2005 when she entered Arjun Archery Academy, an institute setup by Meera Munda. But her professional archery journey began in the year 2006 when she joined the Tata Archery Academy in Jameshedpur. It was here that she started her training with both the proper equipment as well as a uniform. Deepika became the second Indian to win the title Palton Hansda won the junior competition at the 2006 Archery World Cup in Mérida, Mexico. A...

 Mithali Dorai Raj is the only female to surpass the 7,000 run mark in Women's One Day International matches and the first player to score seven consecutive 50's in ODIs. Raj was born on 3 December 1982 in a Tamil family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Her father is Dorai Raj, who was an Airman in the Indian Air Force, and mother is Leela Raj. she started playing at age of 10. she started her cricket coaching in school days along with her elder brother. Mithali Raj She is right-handed opening batter and occasional right-arm leg break bowler and also she is the ODI captain of women's national cricket team.  Mithali has played all three cricket formats for India, Test; One day and T20. She led the Indian team to the finals in the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team losts to Australia. She is a part-time leg-break bowler as well. She is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2003. She currently tops the batting table with 703 ratings. At the 2013 Women's World C...

  Mangte Chungeijang Mary Kom, who is populalry known as Mary Kom  is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was born in an ordinary family in Kangathei village, Moirang lamkhai in Churachandpur district, Manipur on 24 November 1982. Her parents, Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom were tenant farmers who worked in jhum fields. The first woman boxer to win six World Championship gold medals Dingko Singh was the one who inspired Mary to switch from athletics to boxing in 2000. K.Kosana Meitei was her first coach in Imphal. Kom is the only female to win the world Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships and the only boxer to win eight World Championship medals. After these achievements, she got a nickname 'Magnificient Mary'. How great is that!! She took a break from her sports career after her marriage. After having her two children, she again s...

Dutee Chand is India's first athlete to openly come out as a member of the LGBTQ+ Community. She is an Indian professional sprinter and national champion in the women's 100 metres event.  Chand is the first Indian to win a gold medal in 100m race in a global competition.   Dutee Chand was born on 3 February 1996 to father Chakradhar Chand and mother Akhuji Chand in the chaka gopalpur village, Jajpur district of Odisha. She belongs to a family which is below poverty line weavers family. Dutee was inspired by her elder sister Saraswati Chand, who competed in running at State level. Chand was 10, her elder sister Saraswati was already a National Athlete. Chand at the age of 10 got her break as she won a sports scholarship to a government school in Bhubaneshwar. Wins historic 100 metres Gold in Naples 2012 was the year where her life got changed! Chand made it to the headlines in 2012. she timed 11.8seconds in the 100 metres category. At the age of 17, Dutee was setting records on...

  Geeta Phogat, a well-known or versed name in the field of wrestling. She is the first Indian female wrestler to qualify for the Olympic summer games and to win Gold medal in 2010 Commonwealth games, wrestling (freestyle). 2010 Commonwealth Games 15 December 1988 was the day when pride of our India born and named as Geeta Phogat. she born in a Jaat family to father Mahavir Singh Phogat and mother Daya Kaur in balali village in Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana. Geeta's sister Babita Kumari and cousin Vinesh Phogat are also gold medalist in Commonwealth games. Her younger sister Ritu Phogat is also an international wrestler and her youngest sister Sangeeta Phogat is also a wrestler. She grew up in a male dominated society and still then she makes her career in a male dominated game i.e. Wrestling. Mahavir Singh Phogat, a former wrestling wanted her child to fulfill his dream of winning Gold medal for India. so, he started training her first child, Geet...