India's swordswoman Bhavani Devi on Monday has created history in the Asian Fencing Championships by assuring the country its first-ever medal by defeating World Champion & World No. 1 Misaki Emura in Wuxi, China. This is India's first medal in this competition.

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Bhavani Devi defeated Japan's Misaki Emura 15-10 in the quarter-finals to seal her place in the semi-finals. With the win, Bhavani has also assured India's first medal in the Asian Fencing Championships. Bhavani completely dominated the World Champion and didn't give Misaki any chance to make a comeback in the match. Bhavani's performance against Misaki was certainly praiseworthy. Prior to this match, Bhavani had lost all her three matches against Misaki. Misaki had won the women's sabre gold medal at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo.

Bhavani's performance in the Asian Fencing Championships has been amazing so far. Earlier, she had beaten Japan's Ozaki Seri 15-11 to make it to the quarterfinals. Seri was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships. Although, Bhavani got a bye in the round of 64 after which she defeated Dospe Karina of Kazakhstan in the next round.

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In the semi-finals, Bhavani, however, went down 14-15 in a hard-fought match against Uzbekistan's Zaynab Dayibekova but ensured India's first medal at the Asian Fencing Championships.

Earlier, Bhavani Devi's performance in the Tokyo Olympics was also excellent.

Bhavani, who became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics, had crashed out in the round of 32 match. Though she missed out on winning a medal for the country, her performance was praised all over.

MC Mary Kom, PV Sindhu, and Mirabai Chanu were among 10 eminent sportspersons elected unopposed as members of the IOA Athletes' Commission in the elections held in New Delhi on Monday.

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However, the remaining 7 sportspersons selected in the IOA Athletes' Commission include Olympian Shiva Keshavan, 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Gagan Narang, table tennis player Achanta Sharath Kamal, hockey player Rani Rampal, swordsman Bhavani Devi, rower Bajrang Lal and former shotput player O. P Karhana.

Moreover, five out of ten players are women and all are Olympians. Only Keshavan is a Winter Olympian. Only ten players had filed their nominations and IOA Election Officer Umesh Sinha declared them all elected unopposed. India's first Olympic individual gold medalist shooter Abhinav Bindra and former hockey captain Sardar Singh will join the commission as members of the International Olympic Committee and the Asian Olympic Council. Both will have the right to vote.

Earlier, Bindra was a member of the IOC Athletes Commission for eight years in 2018. While Sardar became a member of the OCA Athletes Commission for four years in 2019. According to the new constitution of the Indian Olympic Association, there should be an equal number of women and men representatives in the commission. Two members of the commission will be in the IOA Executive Council. It's election will be held on December 10.

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Shiva Keshavan has represented India in six Winter Olympics. He said that this was the first full-fledged athletes commission in IOA history. "Yes, this is a historic moment for the athletes of the country. We now have a proper and full fledged athletes commission for the first time in IOA history," Keshavan told PTI.

Indian Fencer Bhavani Devi on Friday (September 30) won her third consecutive gold medal by winning the women's Sabre competition at the National Games 2022 in Gandhinagar.

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Bhavani Devi of Tamil Nadu defeated Jagmeet Kaur of Punjab 15-3 in the final. She also won gold medals in the 2011 and 2015 editions. Besides, Kerala's Christy Jose Josna and Manipuri Laishram Abi Devi won the bronze medal. Olympian Elavenil Valarivan defeated Tillotama Sen of Karnataka 16-10 to win the gold medal in women's rifle shooting. Mehuli Ghosh of West Bengal won the bronze medal. Gujarat star Elavenil Valarivan had a slow start in the final. Slowly she regained the rhythm and left Mehuli behind. Then he competed with Tilottama Sen for the gold medal. In the final, Elavenil initially took a 4–0 lead. Tillotama tried to maintain the momentum by winning a few points at regular intervals but still lost.

In athletics of National Games 2022, nine games were recorded on the first day, in which UP dominated. Munita Prajapati, daughter of a laborer belonging to a very poor family, made a games record by clocking 1.38.20 hours in the 20 kilometer walk. 17-year-old Parvez Khan of the army broke the 28-year-old record of veteran Bahadur Prasad. He clocked 3.40.89 minutes in 1500m. UP's Ajay Saroj finished second with a timing of 3.41.58 minutes.

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On the other hand in the shot put, Kiran Balyan of UP set a new Games record by throwing 17.14 meters. Haryana's Manpreet Kaur came second and Punjab's Manpreet Kaur stood third. Swapna Barman, playing from Madhya Pradesh, who won the 2018 Asian Games gold medal in decathlon, set a new Games record in the high jump with a jump of 1.83 meters. While in hammer throw, Sarita Romit Singh of UP beat Rekha Singh of Uttarakhand with a time of 61.03m with 59.51m. In the women's 1500m, KM Chanda of Delhi won.

 Bhavani Devi is repeatedly coming out of her comfort zone Over the past three months. Fencer Bhavani Devi, who made history at the Tokyo Olympics by becoming the first Indian to compete in the sport at the Games, has won the Charlellville National Competition in France in the individual women's sabre event.

she stood facing off against another fencer at a gymnastics facility in the French city of Orleans. Later that day, she was asked to dangle off parallel bars at the same gymnasium. A couple of days later, she found herself trying her feet at the Colombian dance form of Zumba

The tasks are part of the unique training methods employed by legendary fencing master Christian Bauer, under whom the Indian will train for the Paris Olympics cycle. Having made history at Tokyo 2020 earlier this year by becoming the first Indian fencer to compete at an Olympics, Bhavani has moved her base from Livorno, where she was training under Nicola Zanotti, to Orleans to train at Bauer's academy.

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Bauer, a fencing coach who specialises in sabre, is the man behind multiple Olympic medals. At Athens 2004, he guided Aldo Montano to gold in the men's individual sabre event. In Beijing, four years later, he helped the Chinese women's sabre team claim silver and Zhong Man the men's individual gold. In London 2012 and Rio 2016, he was the sabre fencing coach for the Russians, leading them to multiple medals, including those for Yana Egorian and Sofya Velikaya in women's individual sabre event.

Bhavani Devi, the first-ever Indian fencer has impressed everyone in the fencing world. She was the first-ever Fencer from India to participate in the Olympics. The Tokyo Olympics showered much love to Bhavani Devi.

The Indian Fencer won the first match against  Tunisia's Nadia Ben Azizi 15-3 to move into the Round of 32. She was very brave in her attacks which was the reason to her win.

To the people, unware of the rule, the fencer to get to the first 15 points wins the match. And if both the fencer gets a touch, the fencer who initiates the touch gets the point. This rule is called 'right of way'.

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Against Nadia Ben, Bhavani Devi won just in 6 minutes and 14 seconds as she was on the attack with a strong defense. This also did not allow Nadia to get away with "right of way" points.

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But against world No. 3 and Rio Olympian Manon Brunet of France, Devi could not get much of a strike. In fact, the world No. 42 had very less attacks against Manon. However, the most of the points were decided in "right of way".

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Bhavani Devi lost to Manon Brunet, 7-15 in the round of 16. The sliver medalist from Rio was much superior in experience at a bigger stage.

However, India should be proud of how Bhavani Devi performed in her first Olympic game. In a game that's been in the Olympics since 1896 summer Olympics, India definitely would like to produce more fencer like Bhavani Devi in future.