+ Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian professional badminton player. + She became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal, and one of the two + Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic medal – the other being Saina Nehwal. + Sindhu won silver in Women's singles at Commonwealth Games 2018. She was also a silver + medalist at the 2017 BWF World Championships and 2018 BWF World Championships consecutively. + She was also a silver medalist in Asian Games 2018, which were held in Indonesia. +
++ Sindhu came to international attention when she broke into the top 20 of the BWF World + Ranking in September 2012 at the age of 17. In 2013, she became the first ever Indian women's + singles player to win a medal at the Badminton World Championships. In March 2015, she is the + recipient of India's fourth highest civilian honor, the Padma Shri. Her silver medal win in the + women's singles event of the 2016 Summer Olympics made her the first Indian shuttler to reach + the final of an Olympics badminton event and the youngest Indian to make a podium finish in an + individual event at the Olympics. She is among the top five shuttlers in women's singles category. + In 2018, She became the first Indian to have clinched the World Tour title defeating Japan's + Nozomi Okuhara in the 2018 World Tour final. +
++ P. V. Sindhu has been employed with Bharat Petroleum since July 2013, as an assistant sports + manager with their Hyderabad office. Following her silver-medal win at the Rio Olympics, + she was promoted to deputy sports manager. She was appointed as first brand amabassador of + Bridgestone India. Also, the Andhra Pradesh Government has appointed P.V. Sindhu as Deputy + Collector (Group-I). She was the leader in the 2018 Commonwealth Games Indian parade. +
++ In this Indian name, the name Pusarla is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person + should be referred to by the given name, Sindhu. +
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