Mouma Das

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Nationality Indian Height 1.49 m (4 ft 10 in)		Name Mouma Das

Born 24 February 1984 (age 40) Narkeldanga, Kolkata, India ( 1984-02-24 ) Awards Arjuna Award for Table Tennis

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Mouma Das (born 24 February 1984) is a table-tennis player from West Bengal, India. She was born and brought up in Kolkata. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2013. She participated in the 2004 Olympic Games where she competed in the singles table tennis competition. Das made her second appeance at the Olympics in the 2016 Olympic Games, twelve years after her debut. Das and Manika Batra reached the reach the quarterfinals of the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships becoming the first Indian pair (and the first Indians in over 61 years) to do so at the World Championships.

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Career

Das made her first World Table Tennis Championship appearance in the year 1997, at Manchester, and went on to reach the third round before bowing out. She did not participate the following year, because of an injury. In the subsequent world meets, Das either represented India as a singles player or as the team member: Kuala Lumpur (2000), Osaka (2001), Paris (2003), Doha (2004), Bremen (2006), Zagreb (2007), Gaungzhou (2008), Yokohama (2009), Moscow (2010), Rotterdam (2011), Dortmund (2012), Paris 2013), Suzhou (2015) without missing any championships. She registered the highest caps at the Championships, with 15 appearances. Das and Thailand’s Komwon Nanthana have both represented their country 15 times each, the maximum by any Asian in both sections.

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At the December 2015 Commonwealth Championships, Das claimed a silver in the singles event along with team medal and became the maximum Commonwealth medal winning Indian Table Tennis player.

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Das qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics at the Asian Qualification Tournament held in Hong Kong in April 2015. However, her appearance at the 2016 Olympics short-lived, as she lost to higher seeded Daniela Dodean of Romania in the first round of the women's individual event.