PV Sindhu Major Medals
| Year | Competition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | World Championships, Guangzhou | Bronze |
| 2014 | World Championships, Copenhagen | Bronze |
| 2014 | Commonwealth Games, Glasgow | Bronze |
| 2016 | Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro | Silver |
| 2017 | World Championships, Glasgow | Silver |
| 2018 | World Championships, Nanjing | Silver |
| 2018 | Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast | Silver (singles), Gold (mixed team) |
| 2018 | Asian Games, Jakarta | Silver |
| 2019 | World Championships, Basel | Gold |
| 2021 | Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020 | Bronze |
| 2022 | Commonwealth Games, Birmingham | Gold (singles), Silver (mixed team) |
Breakthrough: A World Medal at 18
Sindhu’s arrival on the senior stage came in 2013, when she won bronze at the World Championships in Guangzhou, becoming the first Indian woman to win a singles medal at the event. She repeated the bronze in 2014 and three years later reached the Olympic final in Rio, where she lost a long contest to Spain’s Carolina Marin after beating higher-ranked opponents in the knockout rounds.
PV Sindhu Career Journey
After losing two straight world finals in 2017 and 2018, Sindhu won the 2018 BWF World Tour Finals and then took the 2019 world title in Basel, beating Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in the final. She added Olympic bronze in Tokyo and Commonwealth Games singles gold in Birmingham in 2022. Results slowed after that. She won the Syed Modi International in late 2024 and lost in the round of 16 at Paris 2024. In 2025 she reached the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Paris but a foot injury cut her season short in October.
PV Sindhu Records and Milestones
- First Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals (2016 silver, 2020 bronze)
- First Indian to become badminton world champion (Basel 2019)
- Five World Championships singles medals: one gold, two silver, two bronze
- First Indian to win the BWF World Tour Finals (2018)
- First Indian to win the Japan Open (2026)
PV Sindhu Awards and Honours
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Arjuna Award |
| 2015 | Padma Shri |
| 2016 | Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna (then Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna) |
| 2016 | BWF Most Improved Player of the Year |
| 2020 | Padma Bhushan |
