Quick facts
| Born | 9 August 1993 |
| Birthplace | Agartala, Tripura, India |
| Sport | Women’s artistic gymnastics |
| Apparatus | Vault |
| Major honours | Arjuna Award (2015); Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna (2016); Padma Shri (2017) |
| Status | Retired (announced 2024) |
Early career and Commonwealth Games
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow she won bronze in the vault. She was the first Indian woman to win a Commonwealth Games gymnastics medal. At the 2014 Asian Games she finished fourth in the vault final.
Olympic and World results
At the 2015 Asian Championships in Hiroshima she won bronze in the vault. At the 2015 World Championships she finished fifth in the vault final, and she was the first Indian gymnast to qualify for a World Championships final stage.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics she was the first Indian woman to compete in Olympic gymnastics. She qualified for the vault final and finished fourth with a score of 15.066, missing bronze by 0.15 points.
In 2018 she won bronze in the vault at the World Cup in Cottbus, and gold at the World Challenge Cup in Mersin, the first global gold for an Indian gymnast. In 2024 she won gold in the vault at the Asian Championships in Tashkent.
The Produnova vault
Dipa Karmakar is known for the Produnova vault, which consists of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse followed by two front somersaults off. Under the 2022 to 2024 Code of Points it carries a 6.0 D-score. She is one of only five women to have landed it.
Doping suspension
In February 2023 the International Testing Agency confirmed a 21-month suspension after she tested positive for a banned substance. The suspension was set to end in mid-July 2023.
Awards and honours
She received the Arjuna Award in 2015, the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2016, conferred in August 2016 for her Rio performance, and the Padma Shri in 2017.
Net worth
Not publicly estimated.
