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While the nation is cheering its badminton squad’s notable Thomas Cup win in Bangkok, J Jerlin Anika is another Indian shuttler who has been stirring up with her gold-medal winning accomplishment in Deaflympics in Brazil.
The 18-year-old hearing-impaired shuttler from Madurai additionally accomplished something exceptional – three gold awards at the 24th Summer Deaflympics at Caxias do Sul in Brazil, only a couple of days before the Indian men’s team ousted Indonesia to turn into the Thomas Cup champions.
Anika got a gold each in women’s singles, mixed doubles and mixed team occasion.
Three gold medals is a gigantic accomplishment in any game or competition yet not for Jerlin as she regretted not winning a fourth gold on offer.
“She is not happy as she missed out on the women’s doubles gold. She hates losing and when we were leaving Brazil, she asked me why people are congratulating me, I could not return with all the four golds,” J Jeya Ratchagen, Anika’s father, told PTI during an interaction.
Anika beat Australia’s K Neudolt for the singles gold medal, while in the mixed doubles event, she and Abhinav Sharma secured the yellow metal by getting the better of Malaysia’s Edmund Seng Keong Teo and Wei Ying Boon.
She additionally assumed a pivotal part in India beating Japan 3-1 to win the mixed team gold medal.
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