Dipa Karmakar managed to score 52.698 points and thus qualified for the Rio Olympic in the artistic gymnastic category.
“It is a good feeling to win a gold medal,” Dipa was quoted as saying at the official facebook page of the International Federation of Gymnastics.
“My next objective is an Olympic medal podium,” she said after clinching the gold in vaults finals at the test event of the Rio Games on Monday.
She Tripura girl qualifies after defeating the 2008 Olympic silver medalist Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan.
She becomes the first Indian woman and Indian gymnast to qualify for the quadrennial extravaganza after a period of 52 long years.
Ever since the country got independence, 11 Indian men have participated in the Olympics (two in 1952, 3 in 1956 and 6 in 1964). This is the first an Indian woman will be at the Olympics.
