Pranati Nayak (born 6 April 1995)[1] is an Indian artistic gymnast. She is the 2019 Asian Championships vault bronze medalist. She is the third Indian gymnast to win an international medal on the vault, after Dipa Karmakar and Aruna Reddy. She represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics and is only the second Indian female gymnast to qualify for the Olympic Games. She is also the 2019 Indian all-around champion. She represented India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games. She also competed at the 2014, 2017, and 2019 World Championships.
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| Born | 6 April 1995 Jhargram, West Bengal, India | |||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Kolkata, West Bengal | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 144 cm (4 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Minara Begum | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early and personal life
editNayak was born in Jhargram district. Her father worked as a state transport bus driver in West Bengal until 2017 when he took an office job, and her mother is a housewife.[2] She began gymnastics when she was six years old.[3] She moved to Odisha to train in 2003, and her coach Minara Begum paid for her living expenses.[4] She speaks Odia, Bengali, English, and Hindi.[1]
Career
editNayak's first major international competition was the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She competed in the team competition with Aruna Reddy, Pranati Das, Rucha Divekar, and Dipa Karmakar, and they placed eleventh.[5] The same team in addition to Payel Bhattacharjee represented India at the 2014 Asian Games and placed eighth in the team event.[6] Individually, Nayak qualified for the all-around final and finished twentieth with a total score of 43.800.[7] The same Indian team competed again at the 2014 World Championships and finished last out of the thirty-eight teams.[8]
Nayak competed at the 2017 Asian Championships where she finished fourteenth in the all-around.[9] She qualified for the vault event final and finished fourth and the balance beam event final and finished fifth.[10][11] She then competed at the 2017 World Championships and finished sixty-eighth in the all-around during the qualification round.[12]
Nayak qualified for the vault final at the 2018 Melbourne World Cup and finished sixth.[13] She then represented India at the 2018 Commonwealth Games alongside Aruna Reddy and Pranati Das where they finished seventh in the team competition.[14] Individually, Nayak qualified for the vault event final where she finished eighth.[15] Nayak, Reddy, and Das were joined by Mandira Chowdhury and Dipa Karmakar at the 2018 Asian Games where they placed seventh in the team final. Nayak qualified for the vault final and placed eighth.[16]
Nayak won the gold medal in the all-around at the 2019 Indian Championships.[17] At the 2019 Asian Championships, she finished thirteenth in the all-around.[18] She won the bronze medal on the vault with an average score of 13.384.[19] She was the third Indian gymnast to win a vault medal in a major international competition after Dipa Karmakar at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Aruna Reddy at the 2018 Melbourne World Cup.[4][20] At the 2019 World Championships, Nayak missed the all-around placement cutoff for the 2020 Olympic Games by less than three points.[21]
Nayak earned a continental quota spot to the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Sri Lanka’s Milka Gehani after the cancellation of the 2021 Asian Championships.[22] She was only the second female gymnast to represent India at the Olympics, after Dipa Karmakar.[2][23] She was only able to train for two months prior to the Olympics due her gym being closed for a year during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[20] At the Olympics, she finished seventy-ninth in the all-around with a total score of 42.565 during the qualification round.[24] She did not qualify for any of the finals.[25]
Competitive history
edit| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2014 | |||||||
| Commonwealth Games | 11 | ||||||
| Asian Games | 8 | 20 | |||||
| World Championships | 38 | ||||||
| 2017 | |||||||
| Asian Championships | 14 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| World Championships | 68 | ||||||
| 2018 | Melbourne World Cup | 6 | |||||
| Commonwealth Games | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Asian Games | 7 | 8 | |||||
| 2019 | Indian Championships |  |
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| Asian Championships | 13 |  |
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| World Championships | 127 | ||||||
| 2021 | |||||||
| Olympic Games | 79 | ||||||
| 2022 | |||||||
| Asian Championships | 7 | 21 | |
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| Commonwealth Games | 9 | 5 | |||||
| World Championships | 26 | ||||||
| 2023 | |||||||
| Asian Games | 8 | ||||||
| 2024 | Cairo World Cup | |
See also
editReferences
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- ^ a b "How the daughter of a bus driver, gymnast Pranati Nayak, reached the Olympics". The Bridge. 2 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ Chakraborty, Samrat (24 July 2021). "Pranati Nayak: The daughter of a bus driver set to create waves at Tokyo 2020!". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ a b Naik, Shivani (22 June 2019). "Pranati Nayak vaults to a bronze at Asian meet: For my father, a bus driver". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 Gymnastics Artistic Women's Team Final". Glasgow 2014. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Qualification And Team Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Incheon 2014. 22 September 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Individual All-Around Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Incheon 2014. 23 September 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning (CHN) Women's Qualification" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. International Gymnastics Federation. 5 October 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 April 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Results for 7th Senior Asian Championships 2017, BANGKOK 2017 (THA) All-Around". International Gymnastics Federation. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Results for 7th Senior Asian Championships 2017, BANGKOK 2017 (THA) Vault". International Gymnastics Federation. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Results for 7th Senior Asian Championships 2017, BANGKOK 2017 (THA) Balance Beam". International Gymnastics Federation. Archived from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "47th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2017 Montréal (CAN) Women's Individual All-Around Qualification" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. International Gymnastics Federation. 3 October 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (22 February 2018). "2018 Melbourne World Cup Results". The Gymternet. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Results - Women's Team Final and Individual Qualification". Gold Coast 2018. 6 April 2018. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics Women's Vault Final" (PDF). Gold Coast 2018. 8 April 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (28 August 2018). "2018 Asian Games Results". The Gymternet. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (21 May 2019). "2019 Indian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (24 June 2019). "2019 Asian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Bhattacharya, Nilesh (28 June 2019). "In the land of Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Nayak vaults into reckoning". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ a b Chakraborty, Samrat (3 May 2021). "Five things to know about Pranati Nayak: The gymnast set for Tokyo 2020". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Chakraborty, Samrat (24 July 2021). "How Pranati Nayak prepared for Tokyo 2020 in 60 days!". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "Gymnast Pranati Nayak to compete at Tokyo Olympics after winning Asian quota". ESPN. 1 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ Lahiri, Dipankar (29 July 2021). "The case of the missing Vault: Gymnast Pranati Nayak, coach take on unsavoury rumours". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics Women Qualification" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 25 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics 2021: Pranati Nayak fails to qualify for All Round finals". The Hindu Businessline. 25 July 2021. Archived from the original on 22 February 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.