2016 Rio Olympics - Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar goes into the vault finals

Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar has created history in the 2016 Rio Olympics by becoming the first Indian to qualify for the individual vault finals in her debut Olympic Games - she finished 8th in the qualifying round. She is a 23-year-old from Tripura and is India's first woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. She managed to perform her much-appreciated ‘Produnova’ vault cleanly to secure 14.850 points after two attempts.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 8 August 2016.

She was nervous when she had ended sixth after the third of five sub-divisions but, then, dropped to 8th when the Canadian Shallon Olsen’s terrific effort of 14.950 rejigged the overall standings. However, the fact is that she has secured a place in the finals that is scheduled for August 14 - as per rules, the top-8 make the cut for the medal round.
Dipa Karmakar, incidentally, is the first Indian woman gymnast to win a Commonwealth Games medal. The eight gymnasts with the highest individual scores in each apparatus move on to compete for an individual event title in that apparatus.


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