FULL NAME: Loma Swain
GENDER: Female
DATE OF BIRTH: 20 September 2000 (Source: Self)
PARENTS: Father (), Mother ()
HOME ADDRESS: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Studied at Satyabhama Devi College for Hearing Impaired, Patrapada, Bhubaneswar
TRAINING PLACE: Utkal Karate School, Bhubaneswar
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Hari Prasad Pattanayak
TEAMS REPRESENTED: Odisha State Karate-Do Association, Odisha Sports Council of the Deaf and Karate India Organisation

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won the karate gold medal in senior women U-50 kg category of the 27th National Deaf Senior Sports Karate Championship, held at Kanpur on 13 June 2025.
*     Won the silver medal in senior female -50 kg fight event of the KIO National Karate Championships, held at Multipurpose Hall in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 8-12 May 2024.
*     Won 1 silver medal in senior women 50kg fight event of the All-India U-21 and Senior Karate Championship, held in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on 18-19 February 2023.
*     Won the silver medal in junior -53kg individual kumite event of the KAI Cadet, Junior & Under-21 National Karate Championship, held at Talkatora Indoor Stadium from Jan 30 to Feb 2, 2018.
*     Won the bronze medal in below 53kg girls kumite category of the KAI Sub-junior, Junior, Cadet and U-21 National Karate Championship, held at Talkatora Indoor Stadium in New Delhi from May 10 to 13, 2017.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Became the first ever Deaflympic medallist of Odisha, winning one Bronze in women below 50kg kumite event at the 25th Summer Deaflympic Games in Tokyo, Japan on 24 November 2025.
*     Won the Bronze medal in senior female -50kg kumite at the 11th Commonwealth Karate Championship, held in Durban, South Africa on 28-29 Nov 2024.
*     Won the Gold medal in senior female individual kumite -50kg category of the 8th South Asian Karate Championship, held at RIM Auditorium in Thimpu, Bhutan on 19 and 20 July 2024.
*     Won the Silver medal in female senior -50kg individual kumite event of the 7th South Asian Karate Championship at Dashrath Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal on 3 December 2023.

MISCELLANEOUS:
*     Represented India in adult female 48 kg group of the 8th Ju-Jitsu Asian Championship in Abu Dhabi, UAE from 1-5 May 2024.
*     Won one bronze medal in senior female team kumite event of the KIO All India Cadet, Junior, U-21 & Senior Karate Championship, held in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 21-24 September 2023.
*     Won the gold medal in senior women 50kg fight event of the 17th All India Independence Cup International Karate Championship, held at Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi from 11-13 August 2023.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 14 May 2017
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 24 November 2025