FULL NAME: Ritu Kaudi
GENDER: Female
BORN: 4th March 2001 (Source: Odisha Olympic Association)
PARENTS: Father (), Mother ()
HOME ADDRESS: Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Not known
PROFESSION: Not known
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: SAI National Centre of Excellence, Jagatpur, Cuttack
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Jose Jacob, Paulose PT, Bajrang Lal Takhar, Inderpal Singh, Chetan Kumar

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won the women coxless pair Bronze medal in the 37th National Games at Chapora River in Mapusa, Goa on 1 November 2023.
*     Won 3 Gold medals in the 40th Senior & 24th Open Sprint National Rowing Championships, held at Army Rowig Node, Pune (Maharashtra) from 20-26 February 2023.
*     Won one Gold and one Silver medal in womens coxless-pair and coxed-eight team event respectively in the 36th National Games at Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad on 2 and 3 October 2022.
*     Won 2 Gold medals at the 39th Senior & 23rd Open Sprints National Rowing Championships at Army Rowing Node in Pune between 7th and 9th January 2022.
*     Won the Gold medal in junior women coxless pair event of the 39th Junior National Rowing Championship, held at Bhopal (MP) from Oct 4-6 , 2018.
*     Won the Gold medal in 500m women’s pair and Silver in 2000m coxless four events of the 36th Senior National Rowing Championship, held at Pune from December 4 to 10, 2017.
*     Won the Gold medal in women’s coxless pair event of the 38th Junior National Rowing Championship, held at SAI Water Sports Complex, Jagatpur (Cuttack) from Nov 15 to 18, 2017.
*     Won one Gold medal in coxless-four event of the 37th Junior National Rowing Championship, held at Kollam, Kerela from November 28 to December 3, 2016.
*     Won one Gold medal in girls coxless four event of the 19th Sub-junior National Rowing Championship, held at Sri Ram Chandra Medical College Water Sports Centre, Porur, Chennai, from June 7 to 12, 2016.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Finished fifth in womens eight event of the 19th Asian Games, held in Hangzhou, China from 20-25 September 2023.
*     Participated in Women-Four event of the World Junior Rowing Championships, held in Tokyo, Japan, 7-11 August, 2019.
*     Won the Gold medal in women’s coxless four event of the Asian Junior Rowing Championship, held at Chungju, South Korea from June 25-30, 2018.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     In June 2021 she received a one-year suspension, backdated from November 2020, from the National Anti Doping Agency in India after testing positive for the prohibited diuretic probenecid. (NADA, 05 Jan 2022).

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 15 June 2016
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 2 November 2023