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trained her to do the Produnova vault . It is named after the first woman who mastered
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it – Yelena Sergeyevna Produnova . Only four other women in the world had landed
this extremely dangerous vault.

In 2016, Dipa was 23 and she was ready to show her skills to the world at the Rio
Olympics. The country waited eagerly to see her win a medal. But she missed winning
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a medal by just 0.15 point. However, her performance left everyone awestruck . When
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Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci met her, she said, ‘Good for India to have a
role model in Dipa Karmakar … I hope kids look up to her and take up gymnastics
because that is how we all started.’ Dipa continues to make India proud.

Sreelata Menon (adapted)

15 The Produnova vault is an artistic gymnastics vault. It 16 Yelena Sergeyevna Produnova is a former Russian
consists of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse Olympic gymnast.
and two front somersaults in a tucked position off it 17 awestruck: astonished
(see illustration). 18 Nadia Comăneci is a retired gymnast and fi ve-time
Olympic gold medalist. She is the fi rst gymnast to
be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic
Games.
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