Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian badminton player. Sindhu, regarded as one of India's most accomplished athletes, has won medals at several competitions, including the Olympics and on the BWF circuit, along with a gold medal at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first-ever Indian to win the Badminton World Championship, and she is just the second Indian individual athlete to win two straight Olympic medals. 

Sindhu debuted in the Top 20 of the BWF World Rankings in September 2012, when she was only 17 years old. She has five medals from the BWF World Championships, making her only the second woman, after China's Zhang Ning, to win five or more singles medals in the sport. She represented India in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she became the country's first badminton player to reach the Olympic final. She took silver after losing to Carolina Marin of Spain. She earned a bronze medal in her second consecutive Olympic participation at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, becoming the first Indian woman to do so.