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Kabaddi · India

Kannagi Nagar Karthika

R. Karthika (born c. 2008) is an Indian kabaddi player from Kannagi Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is best known for captaining and later serving as vice-captain of India's under-18 girls’ kabaddi team, which won the gold medal at the 2025 Asian Youth Games in Bahrain, where the team defeated Iran 75–21 in the final. Coming from a working-class community, she is widely regarded as a symbol of sports-driven upliftment for girls from under-privileged urban areas.

Profile details

Born
2008
Country
India
Sport
Kabaddi
Discipline
Team
Category
Women
Status
Active

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R. Karthika (born c. 2008) is an Indian kabaddi player from Kannagi Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is best known for captaining and later serving as vice-captain of India's under-18 girls’ kabaddi team, which won the gold medal at the 2025 Asian Youth Games in Bahrain, where the team defeated Iran 75–21 in the final. Coming from a working-class community, she is widely regarded as a symbol of sports-driven upliftment for girls from under-privileged urban areas.

Biography adapted from Kannagi Nagar Karthika on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Snapshot taken — where the text describes a role or a club in the present tense, read it as of that date.

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