Manasi Girishchandra Joshi


Manasi Girishchandra Joshi is an Indian para-badminton athlete who is as of 2019 World No. 2 in SL3 Singles.
Joshi was six when she started playing badminton with her father, a retired scientist from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. She graduated in Electronics Engineering from K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, University of Mumbai, in 2010 and was working as a software engineer in December 2011 when she was in an accident while riding her motorbike to work, and her leg ultimately had to be amputated. She played badminton as part of her rehabilitation and another para-badminton player urged her to try out for the national team; she played her first international tournament in Spain. When working at a bank in Ahmedabad, she asked Pullela Gopichand to coach her, and enrolled in his badminton academy at Hyderabad in 2018.
In September 2015, Joshi won a silver medal in mixed doubles at the Para-Badminton World Championship held in Stoke Mandeville, England. In October 2018, she won a bronze medal for India at the Asian Para Games 2018, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In August 2019, at the Para-Badminton World Championship 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, she beat her countrywoman Parul Parma to win a gold medal.

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