Manasi Girishchandra Joshi
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Manasi Girishchandra Joshi |
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| Type of disability (class): | SL3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 India
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| Birthday: | June 11, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Rajkot , Gujarat | ||||||||||||||||||
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Manasi Girishchandra Joshi or Manasi Nayana Joshi (born June 11, 1989 in Rajkot , Gujarat ) is an Indian badminton player . She lost a leg in a motorcycle accident and is starting in Parabadminton in the SL3 starting class in singles and mixed. Joshi aims to participate in the Summer Paralympics 2020 .
Life
Manasi Joshi is the daughter of a scientist from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center near Mumbai . She studied at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, which the University of Mumbai is affiliated, electronics and graduated 2010zum Bachelor of Engineering . She then worked as a software developer at Atos India . In December 2011, she was so badly injured in a motorcycle accident on the way to work that her left leg had to be amputated . In 2017 she moved to Ahmedabad where she works in the Ahmedabad Cooperative Bank.
Athletic career
Manasi Joshi started playing badminton with her father at the age of six . After her accident, parabadminton was part of the rehabilitation program. Joshi has been doing it as a competitive sport since 2014 and in December of the same year she won the individual silver medal at the national Parabadminton championship.
Joshi's first international title competition was the 2015 World Disabled Badminton Championship in Stoke Mandeville . She lost in the mixed final with her partner Rakesh Pandey to the Indians Raj Kumar and Parul Dalsukhbhai Parmar . In Ulsan , South Korea , it was only enough for bronze in the singles at the Parabadminton World Championships 2017 , Joshi was defeated in the semifinals by the later world champion Parul Dalsukhbai Parmar. At the Para-Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018 , Joshi only won bronze against Parmar. Both athletes met again in the individual final of the Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Basel in 2019 . This time Joshi was able to prevail and won the world title.
Manasi Joshi is trained by Pullela Gopichand and has been enrolled in the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad since 2018 .
Web links
- Badminton Unlimited: Manasi Joshi - Profile ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), player profile of the Badminton World Federation (English, 3:48 and 5:13)
- Yellow Talks - I played for Indian Badminton team , Manasi Joshi speaks as motivational speaker about her sports career (English, 9:17)
- The Story Of Manasi G Joshi , radio report by the private Indian broadcaster Radio City , with pictures for YouTube (English, 15:05)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Manasi Joshi. Indian para athlete. (PDF; 3.1 MB) In: mbasso.in. Maharashtra Badminton Association, 2017, accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Who Is Manasi Joshi: Gold Medalist At Para World Badminton Championship 2019. In: Sakshi Post. August 28, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Indian Para badminton team wins 11 medals at World Championships. In: Firstpost. September 14, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Ayeshea Perera: Manasi Joshi: The accident did created a world champion. In: BBC News . February 4, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Joshi, Manasi Girishchandra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joshi, Manasi Nayana (other name); Joshi, Manasi (short form) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian badminton player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rajkot , Gujarat |