Aruna Budda Reddy created history on Saturday by becoming the first Indian gymnast to win an individual medal at the Gymnastics World Cup. The 22-year-old from Hyderabad scored 13.649 average points to win the bronze in the women's vault event at the FIG World Cup in Melbourne.
Tjasa Kysslef of Slovania won the gold with a score of 13.800 while Emily Whitehead of Australia took the silver with 13.699. Another Indian in the final round, Pranati Nayak, finished sixth with a score of 13.416.
Dipa Karmakar, who finished fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's vault event, has won bronze at the Asian Championships and the Commonwealth Games but never at a World Cup.
This was Aruna's first international medal. She had earlier taken part in the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 Asian Games and 2017 Asian Championships. Her previous best finish had been sixth in the vault event at the 2017 Asian Championships. In all the other international events, she could not go beyond the qualification stage.
Aruna will also contest in the final round of the floor event on Sunday.
In other events, Rakesh Patra finished fourth in the men's rings event. He is still in the fray for the final round of the parallel bars on Sunday. The 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games and 2014 Asian Games bronze medallist Ashish Kumar will also feature in the men's vault event final round on Sunday.
Gymnastics has a series of World Cup events in a year and they are second in importance after the World Championships.