On the occasion of the “Women’s Day”, we take a look at a few female athletes – under 25 in this case – which are likely to dominate their respective areas not only this year, but in the near future:
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Not to be in the discussion in the middle of the 20th century and trace a constant increase in the 1980s and the 1990s to attract traditional attention since the start of the millennium, female sport in India has made a long way.
From the legend of the PT USHA track and the tennis icon Sania Mirza to Badminton Stars PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, several women made the country proud of a wide variety of sports. Let us not forget our most popular sport – cricket – which produced game legends like Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami.
On the occasion of the “Women’s Day”, we take a look at a few female athletes – under 25 in this case – which are likely to dominate their respective areas not only this year, but in the near future:
Manu Bhaker
The pistol shooter ACE, Manu Bhaker, has already made the story by winning two bronze medals in the same edition of the Paris Olympic Games last year, then winning the prestigious Prix of Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna.
Again, it should be remembered that the shooter born in Jhajjar achieved all of this at the age of 23. Who knows how far she will go into sport; Maybe she could join the legendary Abhinav Bindra in the list of Indian shooters with Olympic gold in Los Angeles in three years.
R Vaishali
Indian failures appreciated a breathtaking race in 2024 and it was not only guys who had an exceptional performance after the other; The women’s team also won a historic gold at Olympiad chess in Budapest, Hungary in September. And part of this team was R Va Vaul, 23, which happens to be one of the only three large-masters that India has produced to date.
Vaishali is currently the highest second Indian of women after Koneru Humpy, and the way in which his career has progressed so far, it may not take long before his arrival in the Top 10, or even the Top-5.
Pratika Rawal
There have been many young people who have performed impressive performances for the Indian female cricket team in recent years. However, the way in which the Pratika Rawal opening has launched his career since his beginnings against the Antilles in December forced not only Indian experts and fans, but the wider cricket community to sit and take note of it.
In just six ODI appearances, she accumulated 444 points with a better score of 154 with an average of 74, and certainly made very difficult for Shafali Verma to return to the team as a opening partner of the Senior Smriti Mandhana striker.
Salima Tete
The Hockey Tete star has drawn a meteoric increase since its beginnings in 2017, after represented the country at the Tokyo Olympic Games later when his team finished fourth and has barely missed a first place in historic Olympic podium. And individually, she played a major role by helping India finished third in the FIH Women’s Pro League in 2021-2022 and also winning a bronze medal at the Commonwealth 2022 games in Birmingham.
She would later be appointed captain of the team. And in January this year, she became the first woman of Jharkhand Arjuna. All this at only 23 years old!
Sheetal Devi
The Devi Para-Archery leaf, which takes the help of its members due to a rare medical condition which led to the absence of weapons, was among the main gold contenders at the Paris Paralympic Games last year. She would then set fire to the field by finishing with a 703 -point world record in the ranking tour, to miss the first place in the individual category and later miss an individual medal.
However, her dream of standing on the Paralympic podium was achieved when she won bronze with Rakesh Kumar in the event composed of the mixed team, becoming the youngest paralympic medalist in India at only 17 years old.
