Ananya Garikipati

Ananya Garikipati is 18 years old and is doing her first year in B. Tech DTDP at the School Of Planning and Architecture in JNAFAU Hyderabad.

Born into a non-sporting family, Ananya is the first generation sports-person in her family. She started gymnastics at the age of 6 but took it up seriously from the age of 9. She played district and state competitions for a few years as there was not much Rhythmic gymnastics in India at that time.

She started practicing on her own using YouTube videos, admiring the Russians who are the best at this sport. When she was 13, she traveled to London for her first international training and competition for "2010 Commonwealth Champion Naazmi Johnston" and later on "Olympic champion Anna Gavrilenko" of Moscow, Russia.

It boosted her confidence and a string of competitions followed. She also participated and won Bronze in the all India Inter-University, in ball apparatus in the recently concluded national championships which was held in Amritsar on 29, 30, 31 of March 2022.

A proud moment for the university for its first ever national medal.

Ananya Garikipati