All you need to know about Olympics silver medalist PV Sindhu

It is a good day for India as the whole nation is celebrating the very prestigious Olympics silver medal, won by Pusarla Venkata Sindhu today.  Sindhu settled for silver at the Rio Olympics after being beaten 21-19, 12-21, 15-21 by World No.1 Carolina Marin of Spain in the badminton women's singles event on Friday.  It is India's second medal in the Rio Games after wrestler Sakshi Malik bagged bronze in the women's 58 kilogram category on Wednesday.

While congratulatory messages are pouring in for Sindhu from all over, let us go through her life and the events in her life that led her to the great Olympics victory.

Hailing from a Sports family

Sindhu's parents were both volleyball players. Her dad PV Ramana is an Arjuna Award winner. However, Sindhu chose the sport Badminton as she was inspired by  Pullela Gopichand, the 2001 All England Open Badminton Champion. She began training at the age of 8.

Training

Sindhu travelled 56 km every day to her coaching campus. Coach Gopichand commented that "the most striking feature in Sindhu's game is her attitude and the never-say-die spirit". Sindhu went on to win several titled in the under-10 and under-13 category.

Highlights of her Glorious Career

Bronze medal at the 2009 Sub-Junior Asian Badminton Championships held in Colombo.

Silver medal at the 2010 Iran Fajr International Badminton Challenge.

Won the Asia Youth Under 19 Championship in July 2012.

Malaysian open title 2013. This was Sindhu's maiden Grand Prix Gold title.

Won her third successive women’s singles title at the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold in November 2015.

Sindhu won the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold women’s singles title in January this year.

Honors

Sindhu was honored with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India.