Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian badminton player. She is the only Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals. In March 2015, Sindhu was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honor, for her contribution to sports. In 2018, she was ranked seventh on Forbes’ list of “Highest-Paid Female Athletes” and ranked first on Forbes India’s inaugural list of 22 Young Achievers.
Wiki/Biography
PV Sindhu was born on 5 July 1995 in Hyderabad (27 years old; as of 2022). Her zodiac sign is Cancer.
PV Sindhu childhood photos
She attended Auxilium High School. She studied well since childhood and determined to become a doctor. Sindhu started playing badminton when she was eight and a half years old. Initially, she just played for fun, but soon she realized she wanted to make a career out of it. She enrolled at the Indian Railways Academy in Secunderabad to learn the basics of badminton from Mehboob Ali and later joined Pullela Gopichand’s Badminton Academy to improve her skills. Sindhu is till date (as of 2019) coached by Pullela Gopichand. Notably, he is also the head coach of the Indian badminton team. Thereafter, she entered St. Ann’s College for Women to pursue an MBA.
appearance
Height: 5′10 1⁄2″
Weight (approximately): 65kg
Eye color: black
Hair color: black
Body measurements (approximately): 34-26-36
Family, caste and boyfriends
PV Sindhu is the daughter of PV Ramana and P. Vijaya. Her parents are both former volleyball players. Her father PV Ramana was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2000 for his contribution to sports. She has an elder sister, Divyaram Pusarla, who was a national-level handball player and later became a doctor.
PV Sindhu and her father PV Ramana
PV Sindhu and her mother P. Vijaya
PV Sindhu and her sister.
PV Sindhu and her family
Profession
In 2009, Sindhu made her international debut as a badminton player at the Asian Youth Badminton Championships in Colombo, where she won a bronze medal. Next, she participated in the 2010 Iran Dawn International Badminton Challenge and won a silver medal in singles. In 2011, she won the singles gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Douglas. This was a turning point in her life. However, her best performance came in 2012 when she defeated 2012 London Olympics gold medalist Li Xuerui of China in the Li-Ning China Masters Super Series. In 2013, Sindhu became the first Indian women’s singles player to win a medal at the Badminton World Championships. She then defeated Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in the semifinals of the 2016 Summer Olympics and reached the final. With this, she became the first Indian badminton player to reach the finals of the 2016 Summer Olympics. She even became the youngest Indian to reach the podium in an individual event at the Olympics. However, Sidhu was defeated by Carolina Marin in the 83-minute final, earning her a Summer Olympics silver medal. In 2018, she defeated Japanese player Nozomi Okuhara in the 2018 World Tour final and won the World Tour championship.
On August 1, 2021, she won the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, defeating China’s He Bingjiao 21-13, 21-15, becoming the first Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals. In July 2022, she won the Singapore Open championship; she defeated Chinese player Wang Zhiyi.
It was a rollercoaster of emotions, but in the end I overcame the difficulties and won the championship! Thank you all for your support, it means a lot to me.#SingaporeOpen2022 (1/2) pic.twitter.com/mc14nQhaTM
— Pvsindhu (@Pvsindhu1) July 18, 2022
Achievements/Honors
- Bronze medal at the Asian Youth Badminton Championships in Colombo (2009)
- Iran Dawn International Badminton Challenge Women’s Singles Silver Medal (2010)
- Won the Asian Youth Under-19 Championship (2012)
- At the 2013 Malaysian Open, she won her first Grand Prix gold medal with her outstanding performance.
PV Sindhu wins first Grand Prix gold with performance at 2013 Malaysian Open
- Arjuna Badminton Award (2013)
- World Championship Bronze Medal (2013 and 2014)
- Guwahati South Asian Games Gold Medal (2016)
- Rio Olympics Silver Medal (2016)
PV Sindhu wins silver medal at Rio Olympics
- Asian Games Women’s Singles Silver Medal (2018)
- Ranked No. 1 in Forbes India’s inaugural list of 22 Young Achievers (2018)
- Became the first Indian to win the BWF World Tour Finals (2018)
- Padma Shri Award(2015)
PV Sindhu wins Padma Shri award
- Rajiv Gandhi Khair Ratna Award (2016)
PV Sindhu wins Rajiv Gandhi Khair Ratna Award
- In August 2019, she became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the World Badminton Championships, defeating Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara with a lopsided score in the final in Basel, Switzerland.
- 2020 Tokyo Olympics Bronze Medal
PV Sindhu after winning bronze medal at Tokyo 2020
- She was awarded the Padma Bhushan Award (2020) on 8 November 2021 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The award was conferred on her by President Ram Nath Kovind.
President Kovind Padma Bhushan delivers a message to Qom. PV Sindhu Sports. She is India’s leading badminton player and the first Indian to become a world champion in badminton. She also won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics. pic.twitter.com/32v07Hfd6H
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) November 8, 2021
- She won gold in women’s singles and silver in mixed teams at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
PV Sindhu wins women’s singles bronze medal at 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games
Favorites
- Food: Biryani, ice cream, pasta, pizza
PV Sindhu eating
- Athletes: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Usain Bolt
fact
- In her free time, PV Sindhu enjoys watching movies and doing yoga.
PV Sindhu doing yoga
- She considers Sachin Tendulkar as her role model. However, her inspiration comes from her coach Pullela Gopichand.
Sindhu with Sachin Tendulkar and Pullela Gopichand
- Sindhu is a very hardworking athlete. She follows a strict training schedule and starts practicing badminton at 4:15 every morning.
- In 2014, she was named Indian of the Year by NDTV.
- Sindhu was appointed deputy collector by the Andhra Pradesh government after winning the silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu hands over appointment letter to PV Sindhu
- She is a right-handed badminton player.
- Sindhu has appeared on the covers of many magazines including GRAZIA, JFW and ELLE.
PV Sindhu appears on the cover of Elle magazine
- As a child, when Sindhu’s sister played badminton with her sister’s friends, she used to ask them for a chance to play, but they always refused and said, “No, you go ahead, you are a kid!”
- After Sindhu won a silver medal in badminton singles at the Rio Olympics, her caste was highly searched on Google.
- She is very passionate about dogs.
PV Sindhu likes dogs
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education