GUWAHATI: Dipa Karmakar has made history by winning the gold medal in the women’s vault apparatus at the Asian Gymnastics Championships 2024 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Sunday, May 26.
This marks the first time an Indian gymnast has won a gold medal in any event at the Asian Championships. Prior to this achievement, Indian gymnasts had secured four medals, all bronze, at the continental championships.
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Karmakar, who belongs to Tripura’s Agartala, herself was among the medallists with a third-place finish in the women’s vault in 2015. Other Indian medallists include Ashish Kumar, who won bronze in the men’s floor exercise in 2006, and Pranati Nayak, who took bronze in the women’s vault in 2019 and 2022.
In the women’s vault final at Tashkent, the 30-year-old Olympian posted an average score of 13.566, edging out the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Kim Son-hyang (13.466) and Jo Kyong-byol (12.966) to claim the top spot.
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Karmakar was the first Indian female gymnast to compete at the Olympics, finishing fourth in the women’s vault at Rio 2016 – the best performance by any Indian gymnast at the Summer Games to date. She also made history by winning the women’s vault gold medal at the 2018 FIG World Cup in Mersin, Turkiye, becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at a global gymnastics event.
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