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girls in olympic

Women are the source of energy that runs the world. But these women are also suppressed in many field and in many ways but real talent cannot be hidden for a long time, the women also emerged in the field of sports too. The history of women participation in sports is quite old. Women first competed at the 1900 Paris Games. Women were allowed to compete in lawn tennis and golf, though there were three French women competing in croquet and there was at least one woman sailor as part of mixed crews.
According to Refinery 29, approximately 45 percent of participants in the 2016 Olympics will be women — the highest number of female competitors to date. The United States has broken a record of its own: Team USA recently announced its lineup for the Rio Olympics, and out of 555 competitors in 27 different sports, 292 are women. This isn't the first time that women outnumbered men on Team USA — that honor went to the 2012 London games — but it's the largest amount of women competing for any nation in Olympic history.

India earned its both medal through to victory of the female athletes in the Rio Olympic 2016. Wrestler Sakshi Malik and Badminton player PV Sindhu are the only two medal winners from this country.  Wrestler Sakshi Malik won a Bronze Medal and PV Sindhu won a Silver medal. Prior to this Olympic were MC Mary Kom , Saina Nehwal and Karnam Malleswari all of them earned Bronze medal for India in the year 2012 for MC Mary Kom and Saina Nehwal . Karnam Malleswari is the first Indian woman to achive a medal in the Olympics. She earned a Bronze medal in Weight Lifting in the year 2000 in Sydney Olympics.

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