CWG 2022: Bishweshwar Nandi named Indian women’s gymnastic team coach
The HinduGymnastics coach Bishweshwar Nandi, who guided Dipa Karmakar to an unprecedented fourth-place finish in the Rio Olympics in 2016, was named as the Indian women’s team coach for the upcoming Commonwealth Games on Monday. After three-four months, I was taken to the Netaji Subhash Regional Coaching Centre under the direct guidance of Dalip Singh, who used to send coaches to different schools to spot talented kids.” He would later quit the Border Security Force, to become a gymnastics coach in Tripura’s sports department, alongside his wife Soma, who worked with the Sports Authority of India as a coach. While an injury-plagued Karmakar has gone off the radar, Nandi’s ward Protistha Samanta will also be in contention in Birmingham. “I have my ward Protistha whom I have trained over the years and she is also quite promising after her World Cup stint in Egypt and Azerbaijan earlier this year.” The Indian Gymnastics Squad: Men’s: Satyajit Mondal, Yogeshwar Singh and Saif Tamboli.
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