Dhinidhi Desinghu might not have yet set foot on the Paris soil for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games but she has already etched history. AT 14 years of age, Designhu is all set to be the India's youngest athlete in India's contingent for the forthcoming 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Desinghu is all set to take part in the womens' 200-metre freestyle event at the Paris Games. While she is definitely the youngest in the Indian lot that will be competing in the French capital, overall too she will be second youngest Indian Olympian at the Paris La Defence Arena on July 28.
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The distinction of being youngest-ever Indian Olympian is being held by Aarti Saha who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games aged 11 years. Notably, no Indian swimmer had attained neither the A nor the B qualification time for the Paris Games. In such a scenario, the Olympic Games Tripartite Commission named Desinghu with the help of a Universality quota. She has been named alongside the experienced Srihari Nataraj.
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Desinghu India's Best Swimmer In Women's Section
Even though she is young and could be mistaken as an inexperienced girl, she has lots of talent and has already built this reputation around her of being India's best swimmer in the women's section. In the women's 200m freestyle at the National Aquatics Championships 2023, the teenaged swimmer broke a national record of 2:04.24s in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
Overall, Desinghu bagged a total of seven gold medals helping Karnataka dominating the swimming discipline in the National Games held in 2023 in Goa. She may still be a ninth-grade student but has already taken part in Asian Games and the World Aquatics Championships in Doha earlier this year.