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Thoudam Kalpana wins first ever Judo World Cup medal from India :: Times of India
Rakhi Chakrabarty, TNN, Sep 29, 2010, 12.47am IST
Thoudam Kalpana Devi won a medal, first-ever by an Indian at the World Cup, held at Tashkent on September 25 and September 26......
Kalpana, a constable with Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP), seemed unruffled. ITBP will felicitate her on September 30. The 21-year-old judoka is already fired up to begin preparations for the Guangzhou Asiad in November.
At nine, this Imphal girl had won a silver at the sub-junior national championship at Guwahati in 1998. When the chief guest presented her the silver medal, little Kalpana refused to accept. She didn't like the colour of the medal. She urged the chief guest to give her the gold medal instead. "He told me next time you take the gold," recounted Kalpana with a smile.
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Kalpana won four gold medals at the junior national championships and one gold at junior Asian judo championship. Since last year, she has been participating in senior championships and already has two gold (Commonwealth Judo Championship, Singapore and Rajiv Gandhi International Judo Championship, Jaipur) and two bronze in her kitty.
Before leaving for Tashkent with Kalpana for the World Cup, Singh had gone to the National Judo Federation office to collect the national flag and a CD of the national anthem. A federation official had ridiculed him saying, "Why bother? It's just a pleasure trip."
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