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Sport Specific Information | |
| Name of coach | Soumyadeep Roy [national], IND |
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| Residence | Kolkata, IND |
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| Club / Team | Challengers: India |
General Interest | |
| Hobbies | Watching movies, listening to music. (kreedon.com, 21 May 2018) |
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| Handedness | Right |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | She started playing table tennis at age nine and won her first tournament the same year. She had her first lessons with her uncle Dilip Das and then joined the local table tennis club. |
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| Languages | Bengali, Hindi, English |
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| Why this sport? | "I was very naughty as a child and to stop me behaving badly, my parents got me admitted to a club where I started table tennis. I started enjoying the game and that is where it all began.” |
General Interest | |
| Most influential person in career | Indian coach Jayanta Pushilal, German coach Peter Engel, her family, her husband. (scroll.in, 17 May 2016, indiatoday.in, 06 Feb 2016) |
| Ambitions | To win a medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (telegraphindia.com, 08 May 2018) |
| Awards and honours | In 2013 she received the Arjuna Award, the highest recognition of outstanding performance in sport in India. (Facebook page, 17 May 2016) |
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| Occupation | Athlete |
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| Other information | NATIONAL FIRST She was a member of the Indian team that won the women's team event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, the first time that India had won the event at the Commonwealth Games. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 09 Apr 2018; SportsDeskOnline, 29 Jul 2018) |
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| Family | Husband Kanchan Chakraborty |
International Debut | |
| Year | 1997 |
| Competing for | India |
| Tournament | Commonwealth Championships |
| Location | Glasgow, SCO |
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| Nicknames | Little Golden Girl (Facebook page, 29 Jul 2018) |