Tendulkar hails Dipa Karmakar's achievements

You have won millions of hearts & entire nation is proud of your achievements, wrote the Indian cricket legend.

Update: 2016-08-15 12:35 GMT
Dipa Karmakar first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics came tantalisingly close to clinch the bronze medal in Rio 2016. (Photo: AP)

New Delhi: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Monday joined millions of Indians and celebrities from all walks of life to congratulate gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who missed bronze medal by a whisker at the ongoing Rio Olympics.

Dipa came tantalisingly close to end up fourth with a difference of only 0.150 points with the bronze medallist in the women's vault finals.

Tendulkar, who was in Rio recently to encourage the Indian contingent, took to twitter to congratulate the young Tripura girl.

Tendulkar tweeted,

 

Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan tweeted:

 

India's lone individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was among the first to congratulate Dipa via the micro-blogging site.

Bindra, who also narrowly missed a bronze medal, tweeted:

 

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan wrote:

 

National award winning actress Vidya Balan tweeted:

 

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