Soumyajit Ghosh

Soumyajit Ghosh
Nickname(s) Ghush
Nationality Indian
Born (1993-05-10) 10 May 1993
Siliguri, India
Playing style Right-handed

Soumyajit Ghosh (born 10 May 1993) an Indian table tennis player from Siliguri, West Bengal.[1] He was the youngest Indian player to qualify for the London, 2012 Olympics.[2] He also became the youngest national champion at the age of 19, when he defeated Sharath Kamal in the 74th National Table Tennis Championships.[3] Ghosh is supported by the Lakshya Foundation, Pune and has been part of their scholarship programme since 2016.

Personal

Ghosh hails from a middle-class family in Siliguri, West Bengal. His father Hari Sankar Ghosh works for the local municipal corporation. His mother Mina Ghosh is a homemaker. Soumyajit is his parent's only child. In India he trains at the NIS base in Patiala under coach Bhawani Mukherjee. When abroad he trains under coach Peter Karlsson in Falkenberg, Sweden. Ghosh is the Indian number 1 in table tennis as per the world ranking (nov 2016).[4]recently he is world no 63 As of November 2016

Career

Early Career

In 2010, Ghosh won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in Bahrain. He was instrumental in helping the Indian national team clinch a bronze medal in the World Junior Championships in 2011, by winning both his singles matches against South Korea in the quarter-finals.[5] He was also an integral part of the team that won the Asian Junior Championships in 2011.[6]

2013

In 2013, Ghosh created history by becoming the youngest national champion ever by beating six time champion Sharath Kamal in the finals of the 74th National Table Tennis Championships.[7] He followed that up by winning the singles event at the Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championships in Dharwad, Karnataka.[8] He also won the singles event in the U-21 category at the Brazil Open in Santos.[9]

2014

At the Lusofonia Games, 2014 in Goa, Ghosh won gold medal in mixed doubles and men's team event as well as a silver and bronze in men's singles and doubles respectively.[10] He was also a quarter finalist at the Senior National Ranking Table Tennis Championships in Patna, 2014.[11] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow Ghosh reached the quarter finals of both men's singles and doubles. He also reached the semis of the team event.[12]

2016

On April 14, 2016, Soumyajit Ghosh qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics.[13] However, he made a first round exit in the men's individual event losing to Padasak Tanviriyavechakul of Thailand. [14]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.tabletennisbug.com/2010/10/table-tennis-player-profile-soumyajit.html Table Tennis player profile: Soumyajit Ghosh
  2. ↑ Ankita Das and Soumyajit Ghosh are the youngest Indian players to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics
  3. ↑ Soumyajit Ghosh becomes youngest national table tennis champ
  4. ↑ TTFI Rankings
  5. ↑ Soumyajit Ghosh looks forward to London 2012
  6. ↑ Soumyajit, Ankita book London berth
  7. ↑ GHOSH YOUNGEST MEN'S CHAMP
  8. ↑ GHOSH, SHAMINI ARE CHAMPIONS
  9. ↑ Soumyajit, Manika win Brazil Open titles
  10. ↑ Lusofonia Games, Table Tennis
  11. ↑ Defending champion Ghosh ousted
  12. ↑ Glasgow, 2014
  13. ↑ "South Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Indian table-tennis aces Soumyajit Ghosh, Manika Batra book Rio berths - Firstpost". Firstpost. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
  14. ↑ "TT Players Mouma, Manika, Soumyajit and Kamal Lose in 1st Round". The Quint. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
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