Making the country and her compatriots proud, SRM Institute of Science and Technology’s (SRMIST) student Nethra Kumanan has become the first Indian woman to qualify for the upcoming Olympics.
While confirming her berth in the Tokyo Olympics, Kumanan will be representing the country in sailing.
She qualified for the prestigious event by securing top position at the Laser Radial event in the Mussanah Open Championship, a joint Asian and African Olympic qualifying event.
A second-year engineering student of SRMIST, Kumanan has also represented the country at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games in Incheon and Jakarta, respectively.
This is not all. She became the first Indian woman to win a World Cup medal in sailing when she won Bronze at 2020 Sailing World Cup in Miami, USA.
Kumanan will now become the first Indian woman sailor to represent the country at the Olympics. This 23-year-old professional sailor is a resident of Chennai and has made her institution proud. She trains in the Canary Islands, Spain.