Asian Gymnastics Championships: Dipa Karmakar wins bronze for India

Karmakar also won a bronze in the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Hiroshima, August 3 Indian artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar clinched the women's vault bronze medal at the Asian Championships being held here on Monday.

Chinese Yan Wang successfully defended her title with 14.988 points followed by Japanese Sae Miyakawa with 14.812 points. Karmakar, who also won a bronze in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, finished with 14.725 points in third.

Dipa will turn 22 on August 9 and is a native of Agartala.

Earlier in February, Karmakar excelled with a total of five gold medals for Tripura in the 35th National Games in Kerala.

At the 2014 Asian Games, Karmakar finished fourth in the vault final with a score of 14.200.

#DipaKarmakar won #bronze n opened #India's medal tally at d #AsianGymnastics Championship, #Japan #SAI Way 2 go!! pic.twitter.com/WwpxuAirGy

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