Aruna Budda Reddy shines at Gymnastics World Cup, clinches shining bronze medal; creates history

NewsBharati    25-Feb-2018
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Melbourne, February 25: Walking on her own path Aruna Budda Reddy who hails from Hyderabad on Saturday scripted her name into the history by becoming the first Indian to win an individual medal at the Gymnastics World Cup. Notably, Aruna shined at the World Cup Gymnastics Series event in Melbourne, Australia bagged a bronze medal.

 

The 22-year-old Indian scored 13.649 average points to finish the third in the podium and claimed a bronze medal at the Hisense Arena. However, Tjasa Kysslef of Slovania clinched the Gold medal, while Emily Whitehead of Australia won the Silver.

Aruna made it to the finale with the second-best score in the qualifying round. She had a score of 13.566 in her two attempts. Aruna had an excellent vault in her first attempt, bagging 4.600 for difficulty and 9.066 for execution. Unfortunately, India could not repeat the same in her second attempt as her execution was not perfect and she got 4.800 and 8.666 respectively, thus finishing 0.383 points behind Australia's Emily Whitehead (13.949).


Importantly, Aruna is the third Indian gymnast after Ashish Kumar and Dipa Karmakar, who won bronze medals in the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games respectively, to win a medal in competitions organized by the international gymnastics federation (FIG).

On the other side, in men’s artistic gymnastics, India's Rakesh Patra stormed into the finals but finished fourth with a score of 13.733. China's Ma Yue and Wu Guanhua finished first and second with Japan's Takeda Kazuyuki (14.433) placed third. Patra has also made it to the final in parallel bars.
Aruna Budda Reddy also commonly known as Aruna Reddy was born on 25 December 1995 is a female artistic gymnast. She competed at world championships, including the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. She is also scheduled to compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

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