New Delhi: Returning to work after giving beginning to a toddler is a troublesome process however an rising variety of Indian athletes at the moment are smashing stereotypes by persevering with to compete.

Perhaps probably the most well-known sporting mothers within the nation are legendary boxer Mary Kom and six-time Grand Slam winner Sania Mirza.

A look on the Indian moms who can be competing on the Hangzhou Asian Games starting Saturday.

Dipika Pallikal Karthik (squash)

The poster woman of Indian squash, Dipika Pallikal has been a constant performer for the nation. She paired up with Joshna Chinappa to win India’s first Commonwealth Games (CWG) gold medal in squash within the Glasgow version of CWG in 2014.

Her different accomplishments embrace a number of medals in World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, in addition to turning into the primary Indian lady to be ranked within the prime 10.

In October, 2021, she and her husband Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik had been blessed with twin boys — Kabir and Zian. A number of months later, Dipika was again within the squash courtroom and went on to win the blended doubles bronze medal on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Dipika and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu received the gold medal on the Asian Squash Mixed Doubles Championships in July.

Dipika will compete within the blended doubles occasion and it’s anticipated to be her swansong.

Koneru Humpy (chess)

The Grandmaster is considered one of India’s best chess gamers. She turned the youngest lady ever to realize the Grandmaster title on the age of 15 years, one month, 27 days in 2002. This report was bvroken by China’s Hou Yifan. Humpy additionally turned the second feminine to exceed the two,600 Elo ranking mark.

She gave beginning to her daughter Ahana in 2017 following which she took a maternity break.

Humpy returned two years later to turn into the ladies’s World Rapid champion in 2019 and was the runner-up within the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2019-21 version.

The 36-year-old can be competing within the singles in addition to workforce occasions in Hangzhou.

Harika Dronavalli (chess)

The Indian Grandmaster is a three-time World Championship medallist.

The 32-year-old  Harika performed a high-pressure Chess Olympiad in her ninth month of being pregnant final yr.

To put together for the occasion, she joined her teammates on-line through the preparatory camps.

Alongside Humpy, R Vaishali, Tania Sachdev and Bhakti Kulkarni, Harika received the ladies’s workforce bronze in Chess Olympiad — the first-ever for India within the ladies’s part.

She was blessed with a daughter– Hanvika — just a few days later.

She can be trying so as to add one other Asian Games medal to her kitty, having received the bronze within the particular person part on the 2010 Guangzhou Games.

Manpreet Kaur (shot put)

Manpreet Kaur can be in motion within the ladies’s shot put occasion. A nationwide report holder, Kaur hails from Sahauli village in Patiala. She had represented India on the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010. She then took a break of three years following her marriage and the beginning of her daughter — Jasnoor.

She returned to the aggressive enviornment in 2016 and have become the one Indian lady to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics in her discipline.

Kaur was handed a four-year doping ban in July 2017. But she made sturdy comeback final yr by hurling the iron ball to a distance of 18.06m to not solely break her personal nationwide report however turn into the primary Indian lady to cross 18m in shot put.