BHOPAL / AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced a Rs 25 lakh reward for Sakshi Malik, who won a freestyle wrestling bronze medal in the 58 kg category at the ongoing Rio Olympics. He also announced that the state will ensure proper training for the next Olympics for woman gymnast Dipa Karmakar, a Tripura girl, who missed an Olympic medal this time, in case she so desired. These ladies are a move to Indian womens’ entrance in athlete world and Madhya Pradesh is ready to create athlete artists. Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar missed out on a historic medal in the women's vault competition by a whisker as she finished a creditable fourth in the final of the Olympic Games here. Dipa averaged 15.066 points to finish fourth at the Rio Olympic Arena. Simone Biles of the US won the gold with an average of 15.966, while Maria Paseka (15.253) of Russia and Switzerland's Giulia Steingrubber (15.216) took home the silver and bronze medals respectively.Despite being disappointed at missing out on the medal, Dipa asserted that she is determined to train harder and do better at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo."I am happy to have come fourth. Next time when I come to Olympics, I will do better. Those who won in Vault ahead of me were better athletes," she said. "I was very happy with my performance", said Dipa. "I hope my coming years would be very good. I will try that in the future our performance at the next Olympics would be good," Dipa added.

I came fourth but my performance was good. I would like to thank my coach for this. We did all this without foreign training. No one can say Indian coaches cannot achieve," she said. "In gymnastics, reaching the finals is in itself great achievement, and I would like to thank all Indians who prayed for me and trusted me to reach this position," she added. "My message to the girls is that women are not behind in anything, and if they work hard, they will achieve the results, even if not immediately."