Medhali Sandeep Redkar, a student of Mumbai-based Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, has been selected for the 30th Summer Universiade 2019 to be held at Napoli in Italy in July this year, a release said on Wednesday.
The Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College (LTMMC) is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) in Nashik.
MUHS Vice Chancellor Dr Dilip Mhaisekar and others felicitated Redkar on Wednesday.
Redkar, a student of physiotherapy branch, had earlier participated in All-India Inter-university Swimming (women) tournaments in one metre and three metres diving springboard sports and won two gold medals.
The Universiade is a multidisciplinary sport event addressed to university students from all over the world. For relevance and number of participants, Summer Universiade is just second to Olympic Games and it is considered more important than Winter Olympic Games. The event will be held between July 3 and 14.