Who is the best female swimmer in India?

Richa Mishra holds five women's individual national records, the most by any Indian swimmer. Srihari Nataraj, Sandeep Sejwal, Sajan Prakash dominate the men's list. It's an exciting time to be a swimmer in India.

Who is the No 1 swimming player in India?

Sajan Prakash currently holds the national record in the 200m butterfly category. Swimming is one of the five sports being played at the Olympics since its inception in 1896.

Who is the first Indian female Olympic swimmer?

The First Indian Female Swimmer in Olympics

Maana Patel has qualified for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics as the first Indian female swimmer. On July 2, 2021, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) confirmed that she has qualified for the prestigious event through the universality quota.

Who is 3 the first Indian woman to win a medal in Olympics?

Karnam Malleswari earned a bronze medal on September 19, 2000, to become the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.

Who is the youngest Indian woman to win Olympic medal?

PV Sindhu is the youngest Olympic medallist India has produced. When the Indian badminton star won the first of her two Olympic medals, a women's singles silver at Rio 2016, she was 21 years 1 month and 14 days old.

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Who is the fastest female swimmer?

Ledecky began the World Championships by winning gold in the 400-meter freestyle in a time of 3:59.13, a new championship record and almost four seconds ahead of her closest competitor.

Who has the most gold medals in swimming female?

Female Olympic swimming medalists

Topping the list of female swimmers is Jenny Thompson, also from the US, with a total of 12 medals- eight gold, three silver, and one bronze.

What female swimmer broke record?

Katie Ledecky wins the 1500 meter freestyle in world record time at the World Cup short course swimming day two finals at the Pan Am Sports Centre in Toronto on Oct. 29. U.S. Olympian swimmer Katie Ledecky has beaten the world record for the 1,500-meter "short course" freestyle race by nearly 10 seconds.

Who is India youngest female swimmer?

The correct answer is Jiya Rai. Jiya Rai has become the youngest and fastest female swimmer in the world to swim across the Palk Strait from Talaimannar (Sri Lanka) to Dhanuskodi (India).

Who is the female swimmer in India?

Shivani was selected as India's wildcard entry for the Rio Olympics by the Swimming Federation of India (SFI), making her the first Indian women to swim in the Summer Olympics since 2004 in Athens.

Who is India's youngest swimmer?

However, Indian swimmer Arati Saha stands out even in that illustrious list of prodigies. The youngest Indian to take part in an Olympics, Arati Saha was just 11 years, 10 months and 305 days old when she made her Games debut at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

What female swimmer has won 7 gold medals?

That saw McKeon join Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi as the only swimmers to win seven medals at a Games. Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya, in 1952, is the only woman to have won seven in any other sport.

What female swimmer won 4 gold medals?

A teenage star of the pool at London 2012, where she won four gold medals, and the most decorated female swimmer in the history of the World Championships, the USA's Missy Franklin is aiming to bounce back after a missing out on individual success at Rio 2016.

Who was the first female swimmer to win gold?

Fanny Durack rebelled against societal standards for women at the Olympics when she wore that suit for the 100m freestyle event. And it paid off. She became the first woman to ever win the Olympic gold medal in swimming, not just for Australia but in the world.

Who is the youngest female swimmer to win an Olympic medal?

Kyoko Iwasaki of Japan won the 200m breaststroke Olympic gold medal in Barcelona, making her, at the age of 14 years and 6 days, the... youngest swimmer ever to claim an Olympic title.

Who is the winningest female Olympian?

Among the women, former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, with 18 Olympic medals, is the most successful female Olympian. Nine of those were gold, a record for most golds by a female athlete at the Olympics.

Who is the slowest swimmer to win?

Nicknamed Eric the Eel by the media, Moussambani won brief international fame at the 2000 Summer Olympics for an extremely unlikely victory. Moussambani, who had never seen an Olympic-sized swimming pool before, swam his heat of the 100 m freestyle on 19 September in the unprecedentedly slow time of 1:52.72.

Who is the fastest female swimmer in USA?

Olympian Katie Ledecky swam the fastest time ever recorded in the women's 500-yard freestyle at 4:24.06, which stands as the current NCAA, American, and US Open record.

What is the best body type for a swimmer?

Broad shoulders with defined abs, lats, and triceps are the physical features earned by swimmers' frequent time in the pool. Above-average height, a long torso and upper limbs are other noticeable characteristics of the best swimmers.

Who is the only Indian woman to win medal in?

Weightlifter Karnam Malleswari was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal, a bronze at Sydney 2000.

Who is the first Indian woman to win multiple medals?

The correct answer is PV Sindhu. PV Sindhu is an Indian badminton player. She was born on 5th July 1995 in Hyderabad. She has received the Arjuna Award (2013), Major Dhayan Chand Khel Ratna (2016), Padma Shri (2015), and Padma Bhushan (2020).

Who is the Indian woman Olympic medal winner?

The first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in wrestling, Sakshi Malik achieved this feat during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. Competing in the 58kg category, a 23 year old Malik clinched bronze medal for India.

Who is the 14 year old female Olympic swimmer?

Despite barely being a teenager, Kayla Han is already being marked as a future star of USA swimming. The California-born prodigy first made headlines in 2021, when she qualified for the USA Swimming Olympic Trials at the age of 12.