Manika Batra

Manika Batra

Manika Batra is an Indian table tennis player. She won three gold medals at the 2016 South Asian Games. Batra led the Indian women’s team to a gold medal win in the final against four-time gold medalists and defending champions Singapore.

About Manika Batra in brief

Summary Manika BatraManika Batra is an Indian table tennis player. She won three gold medals at the 2016 South Asian Games. She was denied a fourth gold medal at the Games by Mouma Das. Batra led the Indian women’s team to a gold medal win in the final against four-time gold medalists and defending champions Singapore at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

She became the first Indian woman to bag a commonwealth table tennis individual gold medal in CWG 2018 by beating Yu Mengyu of Singapore. In 2020, she failed to secure for India a position in the Women’s Team event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when she lost in the opening match of the Tokyo 2020 Qualifiers quarter-final to France’s Marie Migot 2-3.