P. V. Sindhu is a renowned Indian badminton player, who has won medals at many tournaments, including the Olympics and the BWF circuit, with a gold at the 2019 World Championships. Sindhu is the first Indian to become a badminton world champion and the second to win two consecutive Olympic medals. In April 2017, she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 2.
Sindhu has won five medals at the BWF World Championships. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she was the first Indian badminton player to reach the final and won a silver medal. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and became the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals.
Sindhu won the 2018 BWF World Tour Finals and remains the only Indian player to win this title. Sindhu is also a Commonwealth Games champion with three consecutive singles medals, a silver medal from the Asian Games, and two bronze medals from the Uber Cup. 1 Olympics
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P. V. Sindhu Wikipedia/Biography
Pusarla Venkata Ramana Sindhu was born on July 5, 1995, in Hyderabad, India, and she is 29 years old as of 2024. She is an Indian personality who follows the Hindu faith. Her height is 5′ 10″ and her birth sign is Cancer. 2famousbirthdays
P. V. Sindhu Education
P. V. Sindhu attended Auxilium High School and St. Ann’s College for Women. Inspired by Pullela Gopichand, the 2001 All England Open Badminton Champion, Sindhu chose badminton over volleyball and started playing at the age of eight.
She began her training under Mehboob Ali at the Indian Railway Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications in Secunderabad and later joined Gopichand’s Badminton Academy.
Sindhu won several titles in the under-10 and under-13 categories. She later trained with South Korean coach Park Tae-sang and is currently coached by Agus Dwi Santoso, with Prakash Padukone as her mentor.
P. V. Sindhu Parents
P. V. Sindhu was born to P. V. Ramana and P. Vijaya, a Telugu-speaking family. Her father’s family is originally from Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, and her mother is from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Sindhu’s family regularly prays to their family deity in Ratnalammakunta village.
Both of Sindhu’s parents were national-level volleyball players. Her father was part of the Indian volleyball team that won a bronze medal at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games and received the Arjuna Award in 2000. 3wikipedia
P. V. Sindhu’s Husband
P. V. Sindhu is unmarried as of now (no husband).
P. V. Sindhu Career Journey
P.V. Sindhu made her international debut in 2009 at the Sub-Junior Asian Badminton Championships and won a bronze medal. That same year, she made her senior debut at the India Open while still competing at the junior level. In 2010, she was the runner-up at the Iran Fajr International Challenge and reached the quarterfinals at the Junior World Badminton Championships in Mexico.
Career Achievements
National Honors
- Arjuna Award in 2013
- Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of India in 2015
- Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honor of India in 2016
- Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of India in 2020
Other Honors
- CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2013
- FICCI Breakthrough Sportsperson of the Year 2014
- NDTV Indian of the Year 2014
- BWF Most Improved Player of the Year 2016
- Indian Sports Honours Sportswoman of the Year 2017
- Forbes 30 Under 30: Entertainment & Sports 2018
- TV9 Nava Nakshatra Sanmanam 2019
- Times of India Sports Awards Sportsperson of the Year 2019
- BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2020
- Champions of Change 2021
- NDTV True Legend: Future of Young India 2022
Olympic Games Achievements
- 2016 Rio Olympics: Silver medal
- 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Bronze medal
BWF World Championships
- 2013 and 2014: Bronze medals
- 2017 and 2018: Silver medals
- 2019: Gold medal
In 2011, Sindhu won her first senior title at the Maldives International Challenge. In 2013, she earned a bronze medal at the BWF World Championships and received the Arjuna Award. She competed in her first Commonwealth Games in 2014 and won a bronze medal in women’s singles. Sindhu became the first Indian to win back-to-back medals at the BWF World Championships in 2013 and 2014.
In 2016, Sindhu won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics and became the youngest and first Indian woman to achieve this. She won her first Super Series title at the China Open in 2016, followed by titles at the India Open, Korea Open, and the BWF World Tour Finals.
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Sindhu won a silver in women’s singles and a gold in the mixed team event. She also earned a silver medal at the Asian Games and the BWF World Championships in 2018. In 2019, she became the first Indian woman to win gold at the BWF World Championships. For her achievements, she received the Padma Bhushan in 2020.
In 2021, Sindhu won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics and became the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals. She continued her success with a bronze at the 2022 Badminton Asia Championships and her first Commonwealth Games gold medal.
Sindhu returned from her injury at the Badminton Asia Team Championships in February, leading the Indian women’s team to their first-ever gold medal in the event. Her first individual final of the season was at the 2024 Malaysia Masters, where she lost to the Asian Champion in three games.
On July 8, 2024, the Indian Olympic Committee named Sindhu and table tennis player Sharath Kamal as the flag bearers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Returning to competition in 2024, Sindhu is training in Bengaluru with coach Agus Dwi Santoso, aiming to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and win an Olympic gold medal. 4britannica
P. V. Sindhu’s Net Worth
According to the report by the Economic Times highlighted that P. V. Sindhu ranks second only to Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli in earnings from brand endorsements. She charges between ₹1 crore and ₹1.25 crore for a single day of endorsement activities.
In February 2019, Sindhu signed a four-year sports sponsorship deal worth ₹50 crore (US 6.0 million dollars) with Chinese sports brand Li Ning. In 2016, she signed a three-year contract with Yonex worth ₹3.5 crore (US 600,000 dollars) per year.
Sindhu has appeared on Forbes’ list of Highest-Paid Female Athletes multiple times, with earnings of $8.5 million in 2018, $5.5 million in 2019, $7.2 million in 2021, $7.1 million in 2022, and $7.1 million in 2023. 5wikipedia
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