FULL NAME: Pranati Nayak
GENDER: Female
DATE OF BIRTH: 6 April 1995 (Source: Commonwealth Games)
PARENTS: Father (), Mother ()
ORIGINAL HOME ADDRESS: Medinipur, West Bengal, India
PRESENT ADDRESS: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Not known
PROFESSION: Not known
TRAINING PLACE: Odisha AM/NS Gymnastic High Performance Centre in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Minara Begum (First coach) and Ashok Kumar Mishra (Current coach)
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: West Bengal, Odisha, Railways, India

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won 1 Gold and 1 Bronze medal for Railways in womens vault balance beam respectively at the Senior Artistic Gymnastics National Championship at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on 4 January 2024.
*     Bagged 4 Gold and 1 Silver medal for Odisha (one gold each in individual all-around, table vault, balancing beam, uneven bars and silver in floor exercise) in women artistic gymnastic competition of the 37th National Games, held in Goa from 23 to 28 October 2023.
*     She is also the 2019 Indian all-around champion.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won the Bronze medal in womens vault at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Cairo, Egypt on 17 February 2024.
*     Represented India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
*     Won the Bronze medal in vault at the Asian Gymnastics Championships in 2019.
*     Represented India at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games.
*     She also competed at the 2014, 2017, and 2019 World Championships.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     On 29 October 2023, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated her with a award of Rs 23 lakhs for winning 4 gold and one silver medal at the 37th National Games in Goa.
*     Pranati is the third Indian gymnast to win an international medal on the vault, after Dipa Karmakar and Aruna Reddy.
*     Her father worked as a state transport bus driver in West Bengal until 2017 when he took an office job
*     Her mother is a housewife.
*     Pranati began gymnastics when she was six years old.
*     She moved from her birth place, West Midnapore to Kolkata in 2003 to train under the guidance of her coach Minara Begum, whp paid for her living expenses.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 26 October 2023
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 17 February 2024