{"id":26714,"date":"2016-04-18T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26714"},"modified":"2016-04-18T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:37:58","slug":"rio-2016-qualifiers-dipa-karmakar-becomes-1st-ever-indian-gymnast-to-qualify-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26714","title":{"rendered":"Rio 2016 Qualifiers: Dipa Karmakar becomes first ever Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26713\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dipa-Karmakar-Olympics.jpg\" alt=\"Dipa Karmakar Olympics\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dipa-Karmakar-Olympics.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dipa-Karmakar-Olympics-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Dipa Karmakar created history by becoming the first ever Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. In the final qualifier of the Olympic Test event in Rio de Janeiro,&nbsp;the 22-year-old garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics in Rio Games to be held in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Tripura girl secured 13.366 and 12.566 points in beam and floor exercises. She had earlier created history by becoming first Indian woman gymnast to win a medal (bronze) in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014. She then became the first Indian woman gymnast to feature in the finals of World Championships last November.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique has confirmed Dipa Karmakar&#8217;s Rio Games qualification in its official release. &#8220;Following the women&#8217;s qualification competition at the Gymnastics Test Event in Rio, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) herewith confirms the list of nations and individual gymnasts that have qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games,&#8221; the world body said in its release.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics in Rio Games to be held in August.<\/p>\n<p>Dipa is also the first Indian woman to win a commonwealth gymnastics medal in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, she became first ever Indian to qualify for the final stage of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26713\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dipa-Karmakar-Olympics.jpg\" alt=\"Dipa Karmakar Olympics\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dipa-Karmakar-Olympics.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dipa-Karmakar-Olympics-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Dipa Karmakar created history by becoming the first ever Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. In the final qualifier of the Olympic Test event in Rio de Janeiro,&nbsp;the 22-year-old garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics in Rio Games to be held in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[16079,16082,16080,16081,13219],"class_list":["post-26714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-dipa-karmakar","tag-gymnastics-news","tag-indian-woman-gymnast","tag-rio-2016-olympic-qualifiers-in-womens-artistic-gymnastics","tag-rio-olympics-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rio 2016 Qualifiers: Dipa Karmakar becomes first ever Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26714\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rio 2016 Qualifiers: Dipa Karmakar becomes first ever Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dipa Karmakar created history by becoming the first ever Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. 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