Ashish Kumar (born 1990) is an Indian
gymnast
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from
Allahabad
Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administra ...
, who won India's first-ever medals in gymnastics, in October 2010 at the
2010 Commonwealth Games
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and became the most successful Indian gymnast in Commonwealth Games history, by winning bronze and silver medals in different gymnastic events.
Competitive history
2006
Kumar first participated at the
2006 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships staged in
Surat
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,
India
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. He won the bronze medal on the Floor Exercise, tied with
Syrian
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gymnast Fadi Bahlawan. This was India's first major international medal in the history of
artistic gymnastics
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. Kumar also competed at the
2006 Asian Games
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in
Doha
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,
Qatar
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. He finished 18th in the
individual all-around, the only final he qualified for.
2010
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games he first won a bronze medal in the
floor exercise
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and later a silver medal on
vault, where the gold went to Luke Folwell of England, while Ian Galvan of Canada won the bronze medal.
At the
2010 Asian Games
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in
Guangzhou
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,
China
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, Kumar won the bronze medal in the
floor exercise
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. As of 2017, this remains India's only medal in
gymnastics at the Asian Games
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Asian Games since 1974 Asian Games in Tehran.
Editions
Events
Artistic
Rhythmic
Trampoline
Medal table
List of medalists
Best results by event and nation
See also
* Asian Gymnastics ...
.
2011
At the
South Central Asian Gymnastics Championships in Dhaka in December 2011 Kumar won four gold medals, in the individual all-around, floor exercise, vault and high bar events.
2014
Following a turbulent selection process which caused uncertainty about the participation of the Indian team in the Gymnastics event at the
2014 Asian Games
The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 ...
, Kumar failed to qualify to the floor finals at the event. He finished 12th in the
individual all-around.
References
External links
FIG profileAshish Kumar Interviewat ''
NDTV
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Indian male artistic gymnasts
1990 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Allahabad
Gymnasts at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
Asian Games medalists in gymnastics
Gymnasts at the 2006 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2010 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2014 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for India
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games