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Badminton
P. V. Sindhu
Two Olympic medals on one racket
Her life
Sindhu travelled more than 50 km each day as a child to train in Hyderabad.
She won silver at the Rio 2016 Olympics and bronze at Tokyo 2020, becoming the first Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals, and was world champion in 2019.
Achievements
- ✦Olympic silver at Rio 2016 and bronze at Tokyo 2020
- ✦World champion in 2019
On the timeline
2016
India commissions its first women fighter pilots. P. V. Sindhu wins Olympic silver.
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