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11 Dipa Karmakar
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Do you know who is Dipa Karmakar. She is the first Indian
woman to take part in gymnastics at the Olympic Games. Let’s
know about her journey.
From the childhood little Dipa loved to climb trees, to run and play with her
sister, Puja-didi.
Dipa Karmakar lived in Agartalą, a small city in Northeast India. Dipa’s
father was a weightlifter and had won many medals in weightlifting. Later,
he began to give training to other weightlifters. Dipa would often go along
with him to the sports centre where he trained them. At the age of five
Dipa started learning a sport called gymnastics.
weightlifting — the sport of lifting heavy weights
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