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Dipa Karmakar to Aruna Reddy: Go for gold at Gold Coast

Updated on: 26 February,2018 10:53 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Ashwin Ferro | ashwin.ferro@mid-day.com

Ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar hails training partner Aruna Reddy's World Cup bronze medal at Melbourne; says she can clinch top spot at Commonwealth Games Down Under in April

Dipa Karmakar to Aruna Reddy: Go for gold at Gold Coast

Gymnast Aruna Reddy poses with her World Cup bronze which she won in the vault event on Saturday
Gymnast Aruna Reddy poses with her World Cup bronze which she won in the vault event on Saturday


Until Saturday, Indian gymnastics was all about Dipa Karmakar - the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games bronze-winner, who became the first Indian in 52 years to qualify for the Olympics and finish fourth in the vault event at the 2016 Rio Games. But that was before Aruna Reddy made history by becoming India's first World Cup medallist with a bronze in the vault event at Melbourne.


The Hyderabadi scored 13.649 points (average) to finish behind gold winner Tjasa Kysslef (13.800) of Slovenia and Australia's Emily Whitehead (13.699), who won silver. And guess who is most happy for Reddy? Karmakar herself!
"I'm very proud of what Aruna has achieved. I'm even more proud that Indian gymnastics has seen a female performer, other than Dipa Karmakar achieving international glory. Now, we have proved to the world that India too is a force to reckon with in gymnastics," Karmakar, 24, told mid-day over the phone from Tripura yesterday.


She said she always knew Reddy, 22, would do well in the sport. "Aruna has been my training partner for the last three-four years and the two vaults that she performed in Melbourne to win that medal, both have been learnt under our coach Bisweswar Nandi sir. She is a very sincere girl and was very happy when I did well in Rio. Today, I'm happier that she has gone a step ahead of me and clinched a historic World Cup medal," added Karmakar, who now wants Reddy to better her medal at the upcoming CWG in Gold Coast Australia (April 4-15).

Dipa Karmakar
Dipa Karmakar

Karmakar will not be participating in the CWG this time, having suffered a knee injury during training last year and subsequently, undergoing an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery. However, the Tripura champ is more than keen to help Reddy achieve glory. "I will not be travelling to Australia since I'm not taking part in the CWG, so I cannot train with her regularly. But I'm sure we will speak soon and I will be more than happy to motivate her in whatever way I can to once again go a step ahead of my 2014 CWG bronze and clinch silver or better still... gold," Dipa added.

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