Meet the 21-year-old India's youngest licenced sky diver
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Who is Anamika Sharma?
It is an unusual profession for a woman but a 21-year-old budding engineer from Prayagraj has become the youngest Indian woman to bag a licence for professional sky-diving. Anamika Sharma, the younger of the two daughters of junior warrant officer (retired) Ajay Kumar Sharma, first jumped from a height of 10,000 feet when she was just 11 years old.
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Feather in her cap
Today, she has 42 jumps to her credit, having executed them using 10 different types of parachutes and six different aircraft. At the age of 21, she got her 'A' category professional United States Parachute Association (USPA) licence from Dubai drop zone.
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Father-daughter duo
Anamika was trained by her father and earlier by her father's friend and ace sky-diver of the country, Santosh Nagraj, who has a category D USPA (United States Parachute Association) licence. This also makes both Anamika and her father, a trained commando of the Indian Air Force, the only father and daughter duo who are professional sky-divers in the country.
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Qualification
Anamika is pursuing a B.Tech degree from Bengaluru, but her passion for sky-diving under the guidance of her coach and father continues.
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Future plans
Anamika is also preparing hard for the international competition as till date no Indian has participated on the international level.