11 Facts About Mantu Ghosh

Mantu Ghosh was featured in the Limca Book of Records for becoming India's youngest national table tennis champion in 1990 at age 16.

Mantu Ghosh is one of the first prominent table tennis players from Siliguri, which is considered the "nursery" of table tennis players in India after many went on to become national champions and Olympians.

Mantu Ghosh began training at Deshbandhu Sporting Union and won the 1988 Sub-Junior National Championship as a trainee at the club.

Mantu Ghosh won the Junior National Table Tennis Championship in 1990, the same year she participated in the 52nd Senior National Table Tennis Championship held at Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Mantu Ghosh competed in all events of table tennis at the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester, England.

Mantu Ghosh is the Chief Coach at the Young Men's Association's table tennis coaching centre in Siliguri.

Mantu Ghosh was the national coach for the women's team and prepared the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Mantu Ghosh trained both Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das, who qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in their respective categories.

Mantu Ghosh is joint secretary of the Bengal State Table Tennis Association and is a past president of the North Bengal Table Tennis Association.

In 2002, Mantu Ghosh received the Arjuna Award from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Government of India in recognition of her achievements.

Mantu Ghosh is married to Subrata Roy, a table tennis coach.