Rashmi Kumari
Encyclopedia
Rashmi Kumari is an International Carrom
Champion from Bihar
, India
, playing since 1992. She is employed on a scholarship basis at UBI, Patna
. She also played for BSB in many tournaments.
Carrom
Carrom is a family of tabletop games with gameplay that lies somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. Carrom is known by many names around the world, including carrum, couronne, carum, karam, karom, karum, fatta and finger billiards...
Champion from Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, playing since 1992. She is employed on a scholarship basis at UBI, Patna
Patna
Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
. She also played for BSB in many tournaments.
National
- Winner: Sub-junior in 1997; Junior national at FaridabadFaridabadFaridabad is a city in the south-east of Haryana state in northern India, in Faridabad district. It lies at 28º 25' 16" N Latitude and 77º 18' 28" E Longitude. The district shares its boundaries with the National Capital and Union Territory of Delhi to its north, Gurgaon district to the west and...
in 2000; Senior national in 2004; Inter-institutional championship in 2002 - Runner up: Sub junior national in 1993, 1994, and 1995; Junior national in 1995 and 1998; Senior national in 2000 and 2002.
International
- Winner: 1st Malaysia Open in 1999; 3rd World Carrom Championship in 2000; 1st World Cup in Delhi in 2001; Indo-Sri Lanka Test Series in 1998 and 2003; Second World Cup at DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
in 2006
Awards and Honours
- Ambedkar Sports and cultural Award 1995, 1996 and 1997.
- Swami Vivekanand Youth Award 1999.
- Felicitation by Bihar State Sports, Youth and Cultural Dept., 1996, 2001 and 2003.