She fought like a warrior and won a billion hearts back home before losing to a much better player and world champion Carolina Marin of Spain to settle for the silver in women’s badminton singles at Rio Olympics on Friday. PV Sindhu, however, will go down in the Indian sports history as the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in the Olympics. In process, she also became only the fifth women, including Karnam Malleswari, Saina Nehwal, Mary Kom and Sakshi Malik to have won a medal at the mega event.
Though she failed to win the gold, she is already a champion for her countrymen and the people back home showed their gratitude and happiness on her achievement on the social media. From the Indian President, Prime Minster to celebs, including Amitabh Bachchan, Vijender Singh, Virender Sehwag and others, everyone congratulated the silver medallist on twitter:
Great game played with grit ; Hearty congrats #PVSindhu on creating history by winning for India Olympic Silver medal #PresidentMukherjee
— President of India (@RashtrapatiBhvn) August 19, 2016
Congrats for the Silver @Pvsindhu1. Very well fought. Your accomplishment at #Rio2016 is historic & will be remembered for years.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 19, 2016
T 2353 - #PVSindhu .. look what you did .. you had 1.25 billion people rooting for you !! That is no mean achievement ! Proud of you !!
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 19, 2016
@SrBachchan Take a bow #PVSindhu. You made the nation proud. pic.twitter.com/D6k1OugVMv
— Amitabh Bachchan FC (@Thekkapoor) August 19, 2016
.#PVSindhu displayed nerves of Gold. The way she challenged the World Number one. Thank you #Gopichand..
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) August 19, 2016
Puri: Sand artist @manassand's sand art congratulating #SakshiMalik #PVSindhu for their success in #Olympics #Odisha pic.twitter.com/m0DICVe7rW
— OTV (@otvnews) August 20, 2016
#PVSindhu has brought so much happiness to an entire country. Hard work and determination always pays off so much to learn from her
— Varun dhawan (@Varun_dvn) August 19, 2016
Congratulations #PVSindhu .. so happy for you and your corner.. this silver medal is just the beginning.. Shine On!! #Olympics2016
— Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) August 19, 2016
It is joyful moment for us. Very proud. Many congratulations to #PVSindhu and her family: Rajyavardhan Rathore pic.twitter.com/9Dekz18BtY
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 19, 2016
Hats off to you #PVSindhu .... I have become a great fan of yours ... Congratulations !
— Rajinikanth (@superstarrajini) August 19, 2016
#PVSindhu you are an inspiration to all young Indian athletes who are hesitant to take up Sports as a profession. pic.twitter.com/8jeYZEiKbw
— Vijay Goel (@VijayGoelBJP) August 19, 2016
You go girl!!!!! Making EVERY one of us proud!!!! Congratulations #PVSindhu #SinduWinsSilver #Rio2016 shineeee onnnnnnn ⭐️⭐️⭐️
— Alia Bhatt (@aliaa08) August 19, 2016
Gold wud hv been gr8but even in it they do mixing,out of 500gm Gold medal,494gm is silver,but u wud know d price of dat 6 gm best,#PVSindhu
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 19, 2016
India will NOT forget this match. What SPIRIT!!! Absolutely awesome. #PVSindhu #Silver #Ind #Olympics #Rio2016 #Proud #Badminton
— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) August 19, 2016
Apart from the #Silver #PVSindhu ,you have won hearts of a billion ppl and developed interest in badminton amongst millions.Mera Naman aapko
— Vijender Singh (@boxervijender) August 19, 2016
LET'S NAME A STORM AFTER #Sindhu. #PVSindhu means GLORY. This silver is worth a 1000 golds. Whole India is proud of you @Pvsindhu1 #Rio2016
— Kapil Dev (@therealkapildev) August 19, 2016
