Ankita Das
Ankita Das | |||
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Full name | Ankita Das | ||
Nickname(s) | Pompi | ||
Nationality | Indian | ||
Residence | Siliguri | ||
Born | Darjeeling, Siliguri, West Bengal, India | 17 July 1993||
Height | 5.6 | ||
Weight | 53 | ||
Playing style | Right-handed offensive | ||
Equipment(s) | Before butterfly and Now stag | ||
Club | German club II division league YMA club at Siliguri | ||
Medal record
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Ankita Das (born 17 July 1993) is an Indian table tennis player from Siliguri, West Bengal. She always wanted to be Air Force pilot and took this game for timepass.. but her family didn’t allow her to join Air Force so she chose this game for her dad. Her timepass became serious game for her. Played coutinuosly for 10 years and reached final in all the events. She participated in World Championship and reached quarter-finals. Nobody has broken her records till now. In Senior Asian she got Most Popular Player Award and in Junior World Championship she got Fair Play Award.
But 2 years she couldn't play well because of knee injury but in 2019 Senior National she participated and won bronze in singles.
She represented India at the 2012 London Summer Olympics in Women's singles event
She was the youngest girl in that Olympic.
Career
Ankita Das has won senior championship at the 75th senior National table tennis championships (2014)[1]
Das has won championship at the 75th senior National table tennis championships (2014)[1] Women's singles event. before was practicing under of Coach Mantu Gosh Arjuna Awardee. she was the youngest girl in that olympic. she played in junior world championship 2011, singles quarterfinalist and got fair play award.. she made history in that tournament, she got most popular player award in senior asian championship, made history again, 10 years she played national final continues in her career, its history in indian table tennis. she played cadet world challenge, and got gold medal in the teams, and singles got 8th position, she played lusofonia games and got bronze, silver, gold in that tournament.
See also
- India at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
References
- ^ a b "Sanil, Ankita are National champs". Retrieved 30 March 2014.
External links
- Living people
- Olympic table tennis players of India
- Sportswomen from West Bengal
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- People from Darjeeling
- Bengali sportspeople
- Indian female table tennis players
- People from Siliguri
- 1993 births
- Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
- 21st-century Indian women
- Racket sportspeople from West Bengal
- Asian Games competitors for India
- Asian table tennis biography stubs
- Indian sportspeople stubs