16-year-old table tennis player Prithika Pavade qualified for the Tokyo Olympics this summer on Saturday.
Endowed with a real strength of character and driven by an undisguised ambition, the young woman won in all categories of young people, while at the same time leading a brilliant education.
Still unknown to the general public, she could make a name for herself soon.
Only 16 years old, table tennis player Prithika Pavade landed her ticket on Saturday for the next Olympic Games scheduled for this summer and will be the youngest member of the French delegation.
Gifted, the teenager has won everything among young people and displays without trembling her solid ambitions.
What reminds another French sport prodigy, the Parisian Kylian Mbappé.
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Like the world champion, Prithika Pavade comes from Seine-Saint-Denis and spends her life being ahead of all passing times.
The goal of Prithika Pavade is to be Olympic champion, which she has already said in peace.
Why hide it?
The young champion has always been above the fray.
When she was youngest, she won the national title in minimes.
When she was minimal, she won in cadets, and so on, until her title of European Under-21 champion which she won last year, at just 15 years old.
A real strength of character
Her Saint-Denis club created a Generation 2024 device a few years ago, of which she was part with the objective of qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games, scheduled in Paris. A competition at home, by the yardstick of her 20s, it sounded like a fairy tale. But Prithika Pavade likes to write the pretty stories herself and has done it by getting ahead of the curve. Even the president of his Saint-Denis club was amazed when he saw her qualify with Olympian calm for the Tokyo Olympics.
Finally, for Prithika Pavade, the one-year postponement of the Olympics was a godsend.
In 2020, it was too early, and Prithika Pavade took advantage of this extra year to grow even further.
But it took a lot of strength of character.
First, because his lifelong trainer suddenly disappeared in the fall.
A very hard event for the young girl, but it is as if this drama had given her an extra soul.
Excellent grades at school
Then, the table tennis player is also a high school student.
And this morning, like the other high school students, she found her way back to virtual school.
But Prithika Pavade is used to distance learning, as she spends several months a year competing and juggling classes between two matches.
This does not prevent him from having an average of 18.
Yes, the young table tennis player is gifted in all areas but keeps her head on her shoulders. Perhaps because his Saint-Denis club is both for professional players and for recreational and school sports. So Prithika Pavade does not live in a bubble but among sportsmen of all stripes. Well surrounded, she has everything to reach the top of the world, like Kylian Mbappé.