P. V. Sindhu is an Indian badminton player who became the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic silver medal, at the 2016 Rio Games, and later added Olympic bronze in 2020. She won the women's singles title at the 2019 World Championships, becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at that event, and is one of the most decorated Indian athletes in any sport.
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Career HighlightFirst and only Indian to become badminton world champion, and the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals, silver in 2016 and bronze in 2020. 1 Classification
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1. Wikipedia, P. V. Sindhu
Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-date clause: "born 5 July 1995"
born 5 July 1995
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-year figure: "born 5 July 1995"
born 5 July 1995
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Indian badminton player
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She is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion and only the second individual from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.
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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian badminton player.
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