6 best athletes in the world for the week 11 April - 18 April

Dipa Karmakar

22-year-old Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar made history for the country, becoming the first ever female gymnast to qualify for the Olympic Games with her performance at the Olympic qualifiers in Rio de Janiero, also incidentally the venue for the Games.

Karmakar landed the extremely difficult Produnova vault – one of only five gymnasts in the world to do so, and historically has the highest score ever achieved at the Produnova. She landed it again yesterday in her qualification, and became the only Indian woman to have qualified for the Olympics in gymnastics.

She went one better the following day, winning gold at the vault.