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.
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.
