FULL NAME: Sonali Swain
GENDER: Female
BORN: 6th November, 2002 (Officially confirmed date)
FAMILY: Father (Naba Kishore Swain), Mother (Anupama Swain)
HOME ADDRESS: Nankar Talasahi, Jagatpur, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Studied at Laxmi Narayan Sahu Mahavidyalaya, Jagatpur, Cuttack
PROFESSION: Not known
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: SAI National Centre of Excellence, Jagatpur, Cuttack
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Jose Jacob, Paulose PT, Bajrang Lal Takhar and Inderpal Singh, Chetan Kumar

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won the Bronze medal in womens 1000m coxless four event of the 1st Khelo India Water Sports Festival (KIWSF) at the Dal Lake in Srinagar (J&K) 23 August 2025.
*     Won the Silver medal in womens coxless-four event of the 38th National Games at the Water Sports Complex in Tehri, Uttarakhand on 5 February 2025.
*     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 1000m junior womens pair event at the 40th Junior National Rowing Championships in Bhopal (MP) on 15 October, 2019.
*     Won one Gold and one Silver medal at the 4th Indoor National Rowing Championship, held at Patna, Bihar on 7-8 September, 2019.
*     Won the Gold medal in womens coxless-four (2000m) and silver medal in womens coxless-pair (500m) event at the 37th Senior National Rowing Championship, held in Pune, 17-23 December, 2018.
*     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 coxless four 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 four event of the 38th Junior National Rowing Championship, held at SAI Water Sports Complex, Jagatpur (Cuttack) from Nov 15 to 18, 2017.
*     Won one Bronze medal in the 35th Senior National Rowing Championship, held at Upper Lake in Bhopal from Jan 27 to Feb 2, 2017.
*     Won the Bronze medal in womens coxless-four (500m) event at the 19th Open Sprint National Rowing Championship, held in Bhopal (MP), 27 Jan-3 Feb, 2017.
*     Won Gold medal in girls double-scull event at the 20th Sub-junior National Rowing Championship, held in Kolkata, 5-11 January, 2017.
*     Participated in the girls singles scull event at the 19th Sub-Junior National Rowing Championship, held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, from 7-12 June, 2016.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Finished fifth in womens eight event of the 19th Asian Games, held in Hangzhou, China from 20-25 September 2023.
*     Participated in the Asian Junior Rowing Championship, held in Pattaya, Thailand, 18-22 December, 2019.
*     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.
*     Won Bronze medal in junior womens coxless-four at the Asian Junior Rowing Championship, Singapore, 11-14 October, 2017.

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: 2 February 2017
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 6 September 2025