Human Interest |
Further Personal Information |
Residence |
Kolkata, IND |
Sport Specific Information |
Club / Team |
Baisaki Sangha: India |
General Interest |
Hobbies |
Painting, tennis, badminton. (Athlete, 11 Sep 2000, telegraphindia.com, 10 Sep 2009) |
Sport Specific Information |
Why this sport? |
"When I was small I was very fat, so I started to exercise in the table tennis club opposite my house." |
General Interest |
Hero / Idol |
Sweden's 1992 Olympic Games champion Jan Ove Waldner and Chinese world and Olympic Games champion Wang Nan. (Athlete, 11 Sep 2000) |
Sport Specific Information |
Handedness |
Right |
Further Personal Information |
Occupation |
Student |
Languages |
Bengali, Hindi, English |
Sport Specific Information |
Name of coach |
Tapan Chandra |
When and where did you begin this sport? |
She started playing table tennis in 1992. |
Further Personal Information |
Higher education |
Jogamaya Devi College: India |
General Interest |
Awards and honours |
In 2009 she received the Arjuna Award, one of the Indian government's highest sporting honours. (telegraphindia.com, 10 Sept 2009) |