Supriya Mondal (born 12 January 1997) is an Indian

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and trains at the Dolphin Academy,

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under coach

Nihar Ameen Nihar Ameen is the pre-eminent Indian swimming coach, winner of Dronacharya Award 2015, and leads the Dolphin Aquatics across multiple centres in India one of them being the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence, Bangalore. Among his trai ...

who has trained Olympians like Virdhawal Khade and

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. Srikanth is supported by the GoSports Foundation,

and has been part of their scholarship programme since 2012.

Personal life

Supriya Mondal hails from a little fishing village in Shahpur,

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Career

Early career

Mondal won gold medal in the 100m and 200m butterfly events, and a silver medal in the 50m butterfly event at the Junior National Championships in

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, 2009. In the 39th Junior National Aquatic Championship,

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2012, Mondal took one gold and one silver in the 100m and 200m butterfly events respectively.

2013

Mondal represented India at the

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, China and finished 6th in the 200m butterfly event. In the 40th junior nationals in

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he won two gold and a silver, creating the national record in the 200m butterfly event along the way. At the senior nationals in

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, Mondal collected a silver in 200m butterfly and a bronze in the 100m of the same discipline.

2014

Mondal was awarded the best swimmer title in the 41st junior nationals in Bhopal. He finished the tournament with 5 gold and another national record. He won 2 gold and 1 silver medal at the 1st Dubai International Aquatic Championships. The youngster clocked 2:03.93s in the 200m butterfly, achieving the 'A' qualification required to compete in the same event in the

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, China.

Personal

Born in a very modest family, Mondal's father is a fisherman and his mother a home maker. Mondal started swimming in a small pond in Shahpur,

. His talent did not go unnoticed. Sanjib Chakraborty, his mentor and husband of famous

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swimmer,

Bula Choudhury Bula Choudhury (born 2 January 1970 in Hugli, India) is an Indian former swimmer. She is an Arjuna awardee, Padma shri awardee, former India national women's swimming champion and elected as MLA from 2006 to 2011 representing Nandanpur in We ...

, taught him the rules of professional swimming and helped him hone his skills. Supriya's talent was soon discovered by the GoSports Foundation in 2012, who helped relocate him to Bangalore to train under Nihar Ameen.sportskeeda.com
/ref> The Foundation has since been supporting him with training, equipment as well as gaining tournament exposure.

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