Asian Games 2018: Sports in which India can win gold medals

#6 Gymnastics

Dipa Karmakar has been India's Golden Girl in Gymnastics

Though India has not enjoyed much success in the discipline at the highest level, a flexible and stable youngster from Tripura gives a reason to be optimistic.The 'Produnova Queen' Dipa Karmakar pitched India on the world-map of gymnastics, with her gravity-defying stoicism at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

Post her clinical performances, including a historic bronze at 2014 CWG and a 4th finish at Rio, Dipa sustained an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury, which forced her to be out of circulation for two years. Missing out on the Commonwealth Games, the 25-year old made a swashbuckling return to the international scenario, clinching gold in the Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Turkey the previous month.

Karmakar is one of the five women gymnasts to have performed the dangerous Produnova vault, known as the 'vault of death'. The fact that the athletes who finished above her in Rio are non-Asian, is another reason to be sanguine for an epoch-making gold at Jakarta.