BAKU (Azerbaijan): Ace Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar's hope of qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics suffered a jolt after she annoyed her knee injury all through the vault final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup right here on Saturday, forcing her to withdraw from subsequent week's Doha World Cup.
The 25-year-old from Tripura had carried out a higher-difficulty Handfront 540 vault, scoring 14.466 and 14.133 issues within the two qualifying spherical for a mean of 14.299 to qualify for the vault final at the 3rd place.
But she was left crestfallen after stressful a knee injury whilst touchdown all through the primary vault final.
"She had some problems in her knee before today's final. She was feeling some pain yesterday but felt better after working with physio. She attempted the vault finals today but fell on her first vault, aggravating the injury due to undesired landing," Gymnastic Federation of India (GFI) vice president Riyaz Bhati advised PTI.
"She did not attempt the second vault due to the injury and finished her campaign at the Baku World Cup. She will now skip the World Cup in Doha and come back to India for rehabilitation and aim for Asian and World Championships this year."
The two World Cups are a part of an eight-event qualifying system for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, beneath which the gymnasts will make the reduce in accordance with their best 3 rankings.
The Asian Championship is scheduled to be held at Mongolia from June 13-16, whilst the World Championship is slated from October Four-13 at Germany later this 12 months.
"Dipa can still qualify by doing well at World Championship this year," Bhati mentioned.
Dipa had claimed the bronze at the vault occasion of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, in November ultimate 12 months to fuel her Olympic dream. It was her first appearance after improving from a knee pressure, which had compelled her to pass over the vault final within the Jakarta Asian Games.
Dipa has been through her knee ever since she finished fourth at the 2016 Olympics. She had virtually two years of injury lay-off after the Rio Games.
She had an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgical treatment in Mumbai and needed to skip the Asian Championships at Thailand in May ultimate 12 months.
However, returning to motion in July, Dipa created history through turning into the primary Indian gymnast to clinch a gold at an international occasion when she emerged triumphant at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey.
The 25-year-old from Tripura had carried out a higher-difficulty Handfront 540 vault, scoring 14.466 and 14.133 issues within the two qualifying spherical for a mean of 14.299 to qualify for the vault final at the 3rd place.
But she was left crestfallen after stressful a knee injury whilst touchdown all through the primary vault final.
"She had some problems in her knee before today's final. She was feeling some pain yesterday but felt better after working with physio. She attempted the vault finals today but fell on her first vault, aggravating the injury due to undesired landing," Gymnastic Federation of India (GFI) vice president Riyaz Bhati advised PTI.
"She did not attempt the second vault due to the injury and finished her campaign at the Baku World Cup. She will now skip the World Cup in Doha and come back to India for rehabilitation and aim for Asian and World Championships this year."
The two World Cups are a part of an eight-event qualifying system for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, beneath which the gymnasts will make the reduce in accordance with their best 3 rankings.
The Asian Championship is scheduled to be held at Mongolia from June 13-16, whilst the World Championship is slated from October Four-13 at Germany later this 12 months.
"Dipa can still qualify by doing well at World Championship this year," Bhati mentioned.
Dipa had claimed the bronze at the vault occasion of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, in November ultimate 12 months to fuel her Olympic dream. It was her first appearance after improving from a knee pressure, which had compelled her to pass over the vault final within the Jakarta Asian Games.
Dipa has been through her knee ever since she finished fourth at the 2016 Olympics. She had virtually two years of injury lay-off after the Rio Games.
She had an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgical treatment in Mumbai and needed to skip the Asian Championships at Thailand in May ultimate 12 months.
However, returning to motion in July, Dipa created history through turning into the primary Indian gymnast to clinch a gold at an international occasion when she emerged triumphant at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey.
World Cup: Dipa Karmakar aggravates knee injury during vault final
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