Shermi Ulahannan is a representative for

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

in the sport of

Kabaddi Kabaddi (, ) is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players. It is one of the traditional games of South Asia. In this game, a raider enters the opposing half of the court to touch defenders and attempt to return within 30 ...

. she was a member of the team that won a gold medal in the

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. She is from the Konnakkad locality of Malom village in

Kasaragod district Kasaragod ( (, , ; English: ''Kassergode'') is one of the 14 districts in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Its northern border Thalappady is located just 9 km south to Ullal, which is the southernmost portion of the major port city ...

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. She studied in GHSS Maloth Kasaba, Vallikkadav. She is a gold medal winner in the Asian beach Kabbadi games, 2008 in

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(Indonesia). She was former Kerala women's kabbadi team captain. She is the first woman from Kerala to win an

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gold medal in Kabbadi. She married Mr. Nimmy Sebastian on 25 October 2015. She is working in The Government Secretariat Kerala, since March 2011.

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Living people Indian female kabaddi players Kabaddi players from Kerala Sportswomen from Kerala Asian Games gold medalists in kabaddi Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games People from Kasaragod district Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games kabaddi players for India Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games {{India-sport-bio-stub