women athletes

At 39, Ashwini Ganapathi from Bengaluru ran 173 km in 45 hours through Japan’s wildest trails — no sleep, 6 kg on her back, and a dream she trained for years.

Kamalpreet Kaur made her entire village as well as India proud with her record breaking performance in women's discus throw at the Tokyo Olympics. The journey of this farmer's daughter has certainly not been an easy one.

The exemplary stories of these young women are testimony to the invisible battles won with sheer determination and courage.

The sportswoman has participated in 20 international meets, 36 national meets and 59 district meets in the veteran category. Moreover, she has clinched a whopping 414 medals.

Competing with 3,148 athletes from 97 countries in 21 sports, the Indian squad made the country proud and clinched one gold medal too.

Kavita Devi came into limelight after participating in the WWE Dubai try-out this year.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, we can't think of a more inspiring woman than India's fastest one, 19 years old Dutee Chand, who has been courageously fighting against years of gender prejudice for the right to compete in the women's athletic events. The strong woman athlete from Orissa refused to accept the verdict that sports bodies thrust on her for her natural body condition, and decided to put up a fight.