40 Facts About Sharath Kamal

Achanta Sharath Kamal was born on 12 July 1982 and is an Indian former table tennis player.

Sharath Kamal was awarded the Arjuna Award back in 2004.

Sharath Kamal announced his retirement from the sport in 2025.

Sharath Kamal won the gold at the Commonwealth Championship held at Kuala Lumpur in 2004.

Sharath Kamal won the gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, beating crowd fave William Henzell in the final and helped clinch gold in the team event against Singapore.

Sharath Kamal teamed up with Subhajit Saha to win the doubles gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

Sharath Kamal won three medals in 2018 Commonwealth Games; Gold in men's team event; Silver in men's doubles; and bronze in men's singles event.

Sharath Kamal is an alumnus of PSBB Nungambakkam school and Loyola College, Chennai.

Sharath Kamal is employed with the Indian Oil Corporation as an officer.

Achanta Sharath Kamal was born on 12 July 1982 into a Telugu-speaking family of Achanta Srinivasa Rao and Achanta Annapurna in Madras, India.

Sharath Kamal was introduced to Table Tennis by his father at the age of 4.

Sharath Kamal couldn't handle his mental attitude as he would always want to win rather than accept defeat.

Sharath Kamal's uncle had made a strict rule for him to deal with his frustration.

Sharath Kamal had spent his time practicing table tennis with his uncle before and after school every day.

At the age of 16, Sharath Kamal began his professional career and took part in state-level competitions.

Sharath Kamal has been in top form since his foray into professional table tennis.

Sharath Kamal lost in the final of the senior national championships in 2002.

In 2003, Sharath Kamal became the National Champion for the first time at the National Table Tennis Championships.

From 2006 to 2010, Sharath Kamal won the senior nationals five times consecutively.

In 2007 nationals, Sharath Kamal made a clean sweep of 4 golds.

Sharath Kamal won mixed doubles gold with Poulomi Ghatak by defeating Subhajit Saha and Nandita Saha.

Sharath Kamal clinched a bronze in doubles event with Subhajit Saha.

Sharath Kamal again won the singles title in 2010 nationals by defeating Soumyadeep Roy in a 7 games thrilling match.

Sharath Kamal made it to the final of the senior national championships in 2002 and though he lost, he was drafted into the national team.

Sharath Kamal was selected for 2003 World Table Tennis Championships alongside Chetan Baboor and Sourav Chakraborty.

Sharath Kamal was selected for 2004 World Team Table Tennis Championships.

Sharath Kamal was selected to represent India at 2004 South Asian Games.

Sharath Kamal opened his team's account by defeating Farjad Saif Khan in straight games after that his compatriots Subhajit Saha and Soumyadeep Roy completed the formalities to win the gold medal.

Sharath Kamal reached singles final by defeating Rajendra Kapali of Nepal and Piyadasa Thilina Laknath of Sri Lanka both in straight games.

Sharath Kamal made his Commonwealth Games debut at 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Sharath Kamal was the top seed in singles which gave him a bye to directly round of 32.

Sharath Kamal swept Jason Sugrue in first round but dropped one game against Andrew Rushton and two games against Cai Xiaoli in next matches but still managed to win.

Sharath Kamal defeated Segun Toriola in straight games in semi-finals to reach the final.

Sharath Kamal became first Indian to win table tennis gold at commonwealth games.

In December, Sharath Kamal made his Asian Games debut at 2006 Asian Games.

Sharath Kamal was 13th seed, received bye to Round of 32.

Sharath Kamal won the 2020 ITTF Challenger Plus Oman Open men's singles title.

In March 2021, Sharath Kamal played at WTT Star Contender Doha, where he upset Patrick Franziska in the round of 32.

Sharath Kamal competed at the 1st ever wtt grand smash, the Singapore Smash 2022.

Sharath Kamal bagged a bronze at WTT Contender Doha 2022.