Mouma Das (; born 24 February 1984) is an Indian table tennis player. Born and brought up in Kolkata, West Bengal, she has represented India in international events since the early 2000s. Das has won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games including a gold in the Women's Team Competition in 2018. She was awarded the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting honour in 2013 for her contributions to the sport.
Das participated in the 2004 Olympic Games where she competed in the singles table tennis competition; she made her second appearance at the event in the 2016 edition after a gap of 12 years. Das reached the quarterfinals of the women's doubles event at the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships partnering Manika Batra; the duo became the first Indian pair (and the first Indians in over 61 years) to do so. The pair also won the silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.
Career Das made her first World Table Tennis Championship appearance in the year 1997, at Manchester, and went on to reach the third round before bowing out. She did not participate the following year, because of an injury. In the subsequent world meets, Das either represented India as a singles player or as the team member: Kuala Lumpur (2000), Osaka (2001), Paris (2003), Doha (2004), Bremen (2006), Zagreb (2007), Guangzhou (2008), Yokohama (2009), Moscow (2010), Rotterdam (2011), Dortmund (2012), Paris (2013), Suzhou (2015), Kuala Lumpur (2016), Düsseldorf (2017), Halmstad (2018) without missing any championships. She registered the highest caps at the Championships, with 17 appearances. Das and Thailand's Komwon Nanthana have both represented their country 17 times each, the maximum by any Asian in both sections.
Das won her 1st International Gold medal in 2nd Children of Asia International Sports Games'2000 in Yakutsk.
Mouma Das played more than 400 international matches against 75 different countries.Matches - Players Table Tennis for All. For Life
At the December 2015 Commonwealth Championships, Das claimed a silver in the singles event along with team medal and became the maximum Commonwealth medal winning Indian Table Tennis player.
Das qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics at the Asian Qualification Tournament held in Hong Kong in April 2015. However, her appearance at the 2016 Olympics short-lived, as she lost to higher seeded Daniela Dodean of Romania in the first round of the women's individual event.
For the Indian table tennis fraternity, ITTF World Tours have never been easy. But things were different in Olomouc, a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. Mouma Das and Manika Batra, the women's doubles pair of India, lifted their game by several notches to reach the semi-finals for the first time at an ITTF World Tour (Major).
Indian star table tennis duo of Mouma Das and Manika Batra reached a world ranking of 12 in the latest ITTF rankings which is the best among 28 Commonwealth countries that play the sport on the big stages.
In 2017 ITTF Challenge Spanish Open Indian pair of Manika Batra and Mouma Das, seeded second, went down to the top-seed Korean duo of Jihee Jeon and Haeun Yang 11–9, 6-11, 11–9, 9-11, 9–11 in a thrilling women doubles final.it was a creditable performance by the Indians who forced the issue to the last two points to become the first Indian women's pair to finish with the silver medal in an ITTF Challenge series. Later that year, Das made her 50th Final in Annual Inter State & Senior National Table Tennis Championship in Ranchi; she also won gold medal in the team event, where she represented PSPB.
Das was a part of the Women's team that won the gold medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games; the Indian team defeated Singapore in the final with a score of 3–1 to secure the first gold medal for the country in the event. Das won the women's doubles match partnering Madhurika Patkar to give India the lead in the tie. En route to the gold medal, the first by any nation other Singapore, India defeated the top seeded English team in semi-finals. Presently she is an employee of OIL (Oil India Ltd.).
Records and statistics
Top Records
Sl. For Total Numbers References 1 Most Participation in World Championship by an Indian & Asian TT Player 17 2 Most Medals in Commonwealth TT (Games & Championship) by an Indian TT Player 19 3 Most Gold hat-trick in Senior Nationals (Team, Single, Double & Mixed Doubles) 7 4 Most Gold in South Asian Games by a TT Player 8 5 Twice Gold hat-trick in South Asian Games by a TT Player 2004 & 2006 6 Single's Gold hat-trick in South Asian Games by a TT Player 2004, 2006 & 2016 7 Most Gold Medals in Senior Nationals (Team, Single, Double & Mixed Doubles) 32 8 Most number of Finalist in senior National (Team, Single, Double & Mixed Doubles) 51 9 Highest number of representation for Indian Team 1997 onwards 10 Commonwealth (Games & Championship) Most number of finalist Indian women TT player 2010(1) 2013(1) 2015(3) & 2018(2) - 7 Times 11 Twice medals in all 4 events of Commonwealth TT Championship 2013 & 2015 12 World Table Tennis Championship Gold in Team Events (2nd Division) 2004 & 2016 13 Total number of Gold in National & International Events 100+ 14 Total number of International Matches 400+
Commonwealth Table Tennis
Following are finishes at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
Year Competition Medal Event References 2001 Championship Bronze Team 2004 Championship Bronze Team Bronze Doubles 2006 Games Bronze Team 2007 Championship Bronze Team 2009 Championship Bronze Team 2009 Championship Bronze Single 2010 Games Silver Team Bronze Doubles 2013 Championship Silver Mixed Doubles Bronze Doubles Bronze Team Bronze Single 2015 Championship Bronze Doubles Silver Mixed Doubles Silver Team Silver Singles 2018 Games Gold Team Silver Doubles
Gold Hat-Trick in Annual Senior Table Tennis Championship
Year Event Event Event References 2000 Team Doubles Mixed Doubles 2001 Team Singles Doubles 2002 Team Doubles Mixed Doubles 2005 Team Singles Doubles 2006 Team Singles Doubles 2010 Team Doubles Mixed Doubles 2014 Team Singles Doubles
Indian Senior National Championships & National Games Individual Events
Year Medal Event Ref 1996 Silver Championship-Single 1998 Silver Championship-Single 1999 Gold Championship-Single 1999 Gold Games-Single 2001 Gold Championship-Single 2002 Silver Championship-Single 2002 Gold Games-Single 2004 Silver Championship-Single 2005 Gold Championship-Single 2006 Gold Championship-Single 2008 Silver Championship-Single 2014 Gold Championship-Single
World Table Tennis Championship Year Location References 1997 Manchester-ENGLAND 2000 Kuala Lumpur-MALAYSIA 2001 Osaka-JAPAN 2003 Paris-FRANCE 2004 Doha-QATAR 2006 Bremen-GERMANY 2007 Zagreb-CROATIA 2008 Guangzhou-CHINA 2009 Yokohama-JAPAN 2010 Moscow-RUSSIA 2011 Rotterdam-NETHERLANDS 2012 Dortmund-GERMANY 2013 Paris-FRANCE 2015 Suzhou-CHINA 2016 Kuala Lumpur-MALAYSIA 2017 Düsseldorf-GERMANY 2018 Halmstad-SWEDEN
See also Sharath Kamal Poulomi Ghatak Shamini Kumaresan
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