Prashanti Singh

Prashanti Singh
Position Small forward/Shooting guard
Career International: 2002–present
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 65 Kg
Nationality India Indian
Born (1984-05-05) 5 May 1984
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Prashanti Singh (born 5 May 1984, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh) is a shooting guard for the Indian national women's basketball team. She is awarded with prestigious Rani Laxmi Bai Bravery Award 2016-17 in the field of sports by Government of Uttar Pradesh.

She represented the team at 2006 Commonwealth Games, 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 and 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014. Her sisters Divya, Akanksha, and Pratima, have represented India women's national basketball team. Another sister Priyanka Singh is a National Institute of Sports basketball coach. Together they are also known as Singh Sisters.

Playing career

Prashanti joined the Indian Women's Basketball Team in 2002 and became its captain. She played as captain in 3rd Asian Indoor Games were held in Vietnam on 30 October – 8 November 2009 won Silver medal and 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou, in November 2010. Prashanti won GOLD Medal in South Asian Beach Games at Sri Lanka in 2011.

Prashanti Singh is most decorated woman Basketball player in India. Prashanti Singh is one of the top four A grade player of India selected and sponsored by Basketball Federation of India & IMG-Reliance. Prashanti Singh won 23 Medals in prestigious National Championship/National Games/Federation Cup. She holds the National record of having most medals in National Championships. She is only women Basketball player in India to represent National team in one 2006 Commonwealth Games & two Asian Games 2010, 2014 respectively.

She is also a member of the International Women's Film Forum of Asian Academy of Film & Television. Prashanti Singh is first and only Basketball Player in India who has a documentary film named B Cube (BOSKEY BASKETBALL BANARAS) on her own life which is selected in Top Six films in prestigious Satyajit Ray film Festival.

International Sporting Achievements

Indian Team at Vietnam

National Sporting achievement

Awards and Achievement

Academic

She is graduate in Arts from University of Delhi, India.

Family

References

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