PV Sindhu, Star Indian Shuttler, Aims For Her Third Olympic Medal At Paris 2024

PV Sindhu: The Hyderabadi shuttler is already one of the most decorated athletes in the history of Indian Olympics and India will be hoping that she adds another medal to her tally.

PV Sindhu: One of the two flagbearers of India's Olympic contingent at the Paris 2024 Olympics and the only woman athlete to date to have won more than one Olympic medal for India in the quadrennial competition- it happens to be India's number one shuttler Pusarla Venkata Sindhu. Sindhu will be competing in th women's singles badminton in the Paris Games and would look to add to her already illustrious tally.

Both of PV Sindhu's parents happened to be national-level volleyball players so an inclination towards sports wasn't out of the blue. However, she chose a different sport, taking up badminton before eventually joining Pullela Gopichand's academy at a young age. Sindhu started winning young.

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PV Sindhu Medals And Accomplishments:

In Junior badminton, PV Sindhu won several titles including the All India Ranking Championship, the Sub-Junior Nationals. Come 2009, she would have won a bronze medal at the sub-junior Asian Badminton Championships which was followed. A year later, she bagged a silver at the International Badminton Challenge in Iran.

One of the most astonishing thing about her career has been her improvement in the same tournament with gradual progression of time. So she might have missed out on winning a BWF World Championships initially but over the years, she has bagged five medals in these World Championships. In the Asian Junior Championships too, she might have started with a bronze but in 2012, she managed to clinch Gold.

In her Commonwealth Games debut in 2014, she won the bronze before bettering it a silver and gold medals in 2018 in the singles and the mixed team events respectively. With Sindhu already having a silver and a bronze to her name in her past two Olympics- Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020- can Sindhu continue her trend of improvement at these significant world events and strike a gold? India definitely hopes and backs her to succeed in making the country proud at the French Capital.