Sucess of Indian Female Sport Stars in 2013

Smashing to succeed: On 10th August 2013, Pusarla Venkata Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a medal (bronze) in singles at the World Championships. At 18, Sindhu exudes confidence and an unflappable temperament that only comes from rigorous training and passion for badminton.

Goal of life: Where there’s a will, there’s football! On 13th July, 18 tribal girls from Rukka, Jharkhand representing Yuwa India under-14, all-girls team were placed third among 10 teams playing for the Gasteiz Cup in Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain.

Racing ahead: India clinched a gold medal in the women’s 400m relay in a sensational race to finish sixth overall as the curtains were drawn on the 20th Asian Athletics Championships.

Paddling change: They are not Shah Rukh Khan’s Chak De India team who coughed up team spirit at the final match, but real women who displayed a great sense of strength, endurance and team effort, and created history by winning India’s first ever bronze medal in the junior women hockey World Cup as they pipped England 3-2 in penalties.

Take a cue: All of 17, India’s leading cueist, Varsha Sanjeev, became the first and only Indian so far to qualify for the knockout stage of the IBSF World Snooker Championship after she beat Ukraine’s Maria Buckaraska 3-0 in her concluding Group F match.

Packed with a punch: With nothing in her way to becoming a five-time World Boxing champion, Mary Kom has paved a path for many young women boxers such as 16-year-old Jagpreet Sandhu  who says, “I miss normal college activities but that’s the price I have to pay to become better than my idol, Mary Kom.”

Courtesy : Rama Sreekant