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Karthi Gnanasegaram is a British television and radio presenter working for the

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, Amazon Prime Video, Classic FM,

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and Premier League Productions. As of 2011 she is a regular presenter on the BBC for sports programmes and on

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Ten o'clock News, '' BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live,

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and

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''. She is also a presenter on Classic FM, Amazon Prime Video's tennis and football coverage and Premier League Productions.

Education

She studied at

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, a public school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, followed by a Classics degree at Emmanuel College,

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. Whilst at Cambridge she wrote for the student newspaper, '' Varsity'', and played hockey, tennis and badminton (gaining blues in the latter two sports). She played both the violin and piano to Grade 8, and toured Europe playing the violin.

Career

After working on ''

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'' and BBC Entertainment show, ''

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,'' Gnanasegaram was a sports reporter and presenter at BBC London News. She presented '' Sportsworld'' and ''StreetFood'' at Al Jazeera English in Doha before returning to the UK to present the news and sport for Sky News. Gnanasegaram returned to the BBC and was part of their presenting line-up at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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and presented a BBC1 highlights show during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in

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. She hosts

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coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and

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and reports on matches. Gnanasegaram reports for

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on ''

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'', ''

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and

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.'' She is a regular presenter of the

Sports Desk on Radio 4, and was involved in the shows guest edited by

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and

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. Gnanasegaram has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. She was part of the

team at the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

and Tokyo2020. She was a commentator at the Rio Olympic Park for

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and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Tokyo2020 Games for

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. In 2017 Gnanasegaram read the Classified Football Results on Sports Report,

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and BBC World Service becoming only the second female to do so after

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. In 2017, Gnanasegaram started presenting for Classic FM in their 25th anniversary year, and in 2018, she presented the Classic FM Sporting Music Countdown Show with

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and the series, Perfect Pitch in 2019, talking to sports stars such as Andy Murray,

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and

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about their favourite piece of classical music in 2019. The UK voted and chose

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as the nation's favourite piece of classical music related to sport. Gnanasegaram is a presenter for

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's coverage of the

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since 2010. Since 2018, she has been a presenter for Amazon Prime's tennis and Premier League coverage and is courtside in New York at the US Open.

References

External links

Karthi Gnanasegaram on Classic FM
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gnanasegaram, Karthi Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English television presenters English people of South Asian descent Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Al Jazeera people Tennis commentators