Dipa Karmakar injures knee injury during vault final; Will miss Doha World Cup

Indian ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar’s hopes of qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics suffered a huge dent as she ended up injuring her knee during the vault final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku on Saturday. This means that Karmakar will be forced to withdraw from next week’s Doha World Cup. The 25-year-old Tripura resident had performed a higher-difficulty Handfront 540 vault, scoring 14.466 and 14.133 points in the two qualifying round for an average of 14.299 to qualify for the vault final at the third position.

“She had some problems in her knee before today’s final. She was feeling some pain yesterday but felt better after working with physio. She attempted the vault finals today but fell on her first vault, aggravating the injury due to undesired landing.

“She did not attempt the second vault due to the injury and finished her campaign at the Baku World Cup. She will now skip the World Cup in Doha and come back to India for rehabilitation and aim for Asian and World Championships this year,” Gymnastic Federation of India (GFI) vice president Riyaz Bhati told PTI.

Dipa has been troubled by her knee ever since she finished fourth at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. She had almost two years of injury lay-off after that following which she also had an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery in Mumbai which made her skip the Asian Championships at Thailand in May last year.

However, on her return to the international circuit in July, Dipa created history by becoming the first Indian gymnast to win a gold medal at a global event after she emerged triumphant at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey.

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