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| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 December 1991 (age 30) Pune, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Fergusson College | ||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||
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Shruti Kotwal (born 2 December 1991) is an Indian ice speed skater. [1] [2] She is the country's first professional female ice skater. [2]
Kotwal was born and brought up in Pune, Maharashtra, India. When she was seven years old she began roller-skating and held national gold medals in the sport before changing to ice-skating. [3] [4]
At the South Asia Championship in 2011 she secured gold medals in the categories of 500m, 1000m and 1500m. The following year, 2012, she received a scholarship from the International Skating Union, which enabled her to travel to Germany for speed skating training under Canadian skater Jeremy Wotherspoon. [2] [4]
In 2017 she represented India at the Asian Winter Games. In 2014 she broke the national record she had previously set herself in the 500 metre speed skating event. [5]
She holds 5 gold medals from the Indian National Ice-Skating Championships and a bronze medal from the National Winter Games.
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