Jerlin Anika Jayaratchagan is an Indian deaf badminton participant. She got here into the limelight in Might 2022 when she gained 3 gold medals on the Deaflympics organised at Caxias do Sul in Brazil. She and these medals within the staff occasion, blended doubles occasion, and girls’s singles occasion.
Wiki/Biography
Jerlin Anika was born on Monday, 18 October 2004 (age 18 years; as of 2022) in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Her zodiac signal is Libra. She accomplished her main faculty schooling at Avvai Company GHSS, Madurai, and better faculty schooling at St. Joseph’s Ladies Greater Secondary College, Tamil Nadu.
Bodily Look
Top (approx.): 5′ 5″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Household
Dad and mom & Siblings
His father’s identify is J. Jeya Ratchagen, and he’s a small businessman. Jerlin Anika’s mom, Leema, is a homemaker. She has a brother.
Jerlin Anika together with her mother and father and brother
Husband
She will not be married.
Profession
Jerlin Anika was one of many members within the Federation of India College Video games within the 2016 badminton championships. In these championships, she gained a silver medal within the U-13 class and was a pupil of sophistication ninth in St. Joseph’s Ladies Greater Secondary College in Tamil Nadu. Jerlin Anika was the winner of a badminton championship organised in Hyderabad in 2017. This victory opened her approach to take part within the Summer time Deaflympics in the identical yr. When she was 13 years outdated, Jerlin Anika participated within the girls’s singles and girls’s doubles occasions, which have been organised in Turkey in the course of the Summer time Deaflympics. She was considered the youngest participant who secured fifth place and have become the primary athlete, together with Prithvi Sekhar, from Tamil Nadu to take part in these badminton championships. Jerlin Anika was the winner of the 2 silver medals and a bronze medal within the East Asia Pacific Deaf Badminton Championships organised in Malaysia in 2018. She was the winner of a bronze medal within the senior class in girls’s doubles occasions organised within the fifth Asia Pacific Deaf Badminton Championships. Throughout the identical championships, within the U-21 women’ class, Jerlin Anika gained silver medals in singles and doubles occasions. When she was 15 years outdated, she gained a gold medal within the women’ singles remaining match of the World Youth Badminton Championships in 2019. On this match, her opponent Finja Rosendahl from Germany misplaced the match to Jerlin Anika, and upon successful this occasion, Jerlin Anika turned a youth deaf world champion. The second version of the World Deaf Youth Badminton Championships was organised in the identical yr, and Jerlin Anika gained silver medals in women’ doubles and blended doubles occasions. In September 2021, Jerlin Anika was one of many members within the twenty fourth summer time Deaflympics organised at Caxias do Sul in Brazil, and in Might 2022, she gained three gold medals within the staff occasion, blended doubles occasion, and girls’s singles occasion.
The Indian Deaflympians at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence in Might 2022
Information/Trivia
- Her full identify is Jerlin Anika Jayaratchagan.
- Jerlin Anika was recognized with a listening to incapacity when she was 2 years outdated. She began enjoying badminton when she was 8 years outdated. Her father helped her to play badminton in order that she might distract herself from her incapacity whereas specializing in the sport.
- Jerlin Anika’s coach, T. Saravanan, stated in an interview with the media home that Jerlin Anika was a really centered badminton participant with good hand-eye coordination. T. Saravanan defined,
Jerlin had good hand-eye coordination and was very centered. Expertise coupled with laborious work was what helped her obtain such nice feats. All credit go to her and her willpower to win. I used to be merely a information.”
Jerlin Anika together with her coach
In the identical dialog, he added that on the bottom, gestures and lip studying have been the one methods to speak with Jerlin Anika. He additional recalled that at first, typically Jerlin Anika felt anxiousness because of the crowd on the floor, which led her to lose some matches. He additional revealed that Jerlin practised badminton 8 to 10 hours a day.
- In response to her father, J. Jeya Ratchagen, initially, it was very troublesome for him to enrol Jerlin Anika within the nationwide degree matches because the badminton gear and travelling bills have been very pricey. In a dialog with the media home, he said that his household and kinfolk helped him lots financially to handle these bills. J. Jeya Ratchagen stated,
It price no less than Rs 50,000 to participate in a national-level match. Due to some family and friends members, we have been capable of handle. From 2019 onwards, we acquired monetary assist from the State authorities and personal corporations to satisfy journey bills, amongst others.”
In the identical dialog, J. Jeya Ratchagen added that aside from badminton, Jerlin Anika appreciated trend and garments very a lot. He stated,
The one factor that pursuits Jerlin apart from badminton is trend and garments.”
- In response to her coach, T. Saravanan, whereas enjoying on the badminton floor Jerlin Anika’s response time to shuttle halts her efficiency. Whereas speaking to a media reporter he stated that the velocity of a shot could possibly be simply judged by the traditional gamers by the sound of the shuttle when it hits the racquet. Nonetheless, Jerlin Anika used this drawback as her benefit by not getting distracted by different noises.
- In 2021, Jerlin Anika acquired a scholarship of ₹3.25 lakh from the HCL firm. In a press convention that was organised at an occasion in Noida, the HCL Basis Director, Nidhi Pundhir said that this scholarship was granted to Jerlin Anika in order that her father and coach might accompany her for the Deaflympics and the corporate was enjoying a small position to spice up her motivation.
