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Sharath Kamal (Sharath Kamal Achanta) was born on 12 July, 1982 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is an Indian table tennis player (born 1982). Discover Sharath Kamal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?

Popular As Sharath Kamal Achanta
Occupation N/A
Age 41 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 12 July 1982
Birthday 12 July
Birthplace Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality India

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Sharath Kamal Height, Weight & Measurements

At 41 years old, Sharath Kamal height is 1.86m and Weight 82 kg.

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Height 1.86m
Weight 82 kg
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Sharath Kamal Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sharath Kamal worth at the age of 41 years old? Sharath Kamal’s income source is mostly from being a successful Player. He is from India. We have estimated Sharath Kamal's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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1982

Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982), known as Sharath Kamal, is an Indian professional table tennis player.

He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become ten times Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight-time National Champion Kamlesh Mehta.

2000

He is an alumnus of PSBB Nungambakkam school (class of 2000) and Loyola College, Chennai.

He is employed with the Indian Oil Corporation as an officer.

Sharath was introduced to Table Tennis by his father at the age of 4.

Sharath's father along with his uncle Muralidhar Rao taught him the technicalities of the game and groomed him to be a professional paddler.

Both his father and uncle were state-level players and national-level coaches.

Sharath couldn't handle his mental attitude as he would always want to win rather than accept defeat.

The defeat was something that he would often get frustrated at.

His father and uncle helped him with mental conditioning.

2004

Sharath won the men's singles gold in the 16th Commonwealth table tennis championship held at Kuala Lumpur in 2004.

He is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2004.

He currently lives in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Over the past few years he has been playing in the European league.

After stints in Spain and Sweden, he is currently playing in the German Bundesliga for the club Borussia Düsseldorf.

He represented India in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and is still the top Indian TT player.

2006

He also won the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, beating crowd favourite Australian William Henzell in the final, apart from helping the Indian team clinch gold in the table tennis team event against Singapore.

He also represented the country in the 2006 Asian Games at Qatar.

2007

In the year 2007 he was the first Indian to win the Pyongyang Invitational Tournament held at Pyongyang, North Korea.

This was the 21st edition of the tournament which was held in August 2007.

His best performance on the world circuit came in the Japan Pro Tour held in June 2007 where he beat World No.19, Lee Jung Woo (South Korea).

2008

Incidentally, Sharath was also the only Indian Men's Table Tennis player to be selected for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

2010

He has won the US Open Table Tennis Men's championships held at Grand Rapids, Michigan in July 2010.

During the course of the tournament he went on to defeat the defending champion Thomas Keinath of Slovakia in an epic battle of 7 games to win 4–3.

In the same year he won the Egypt Open beating Li Ching of Hong Kong in straight sets 11–7, 11–9, 11–8, 11–4; thus becoming first Indian to win a singles title on the ITTF Pro Tour.

He also captained the Indian men's team that won the team title at the same championship by defeating favourites and nine-time champions England.

He teamed up with Subhajit Saha to win the Men's Doubles gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

In the season 2010–11 he also played in the German major league (Bundesliga) for TSV Gräfelfing and has been one of the best players in the league with wins over top German TT players.

2011

After this victory he reached his career best ranking of World No. 73 and in January 2011 his ranking was 44.

He played for SV Werder Bremen in the 2011–12 season.

2012

During 2012–13, he played in the Swedish league before returning to Germany in May 2013 to sign for Borussia Düsseldorf.

Known as the "Rekordmeisters", Borussia Düsseldorf is one of the best clubs in Europe.

2013

Sharath and the team also won the Deutsche Pokal for the year 2013, a prestigious cup tournament in Germany.

Currently the team is ranked second in the Bundesliga season 2013–14.

2015

He beat Joo Se Hyuk and Chuang Chih-yuan, world no. 8 and 16 respectively in 2015 28th Asian cup at Jaipur.

2016

Sharath qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics after beating Iran's Noshad Alamian in the Asian Olympic qualification.

However, he made a first round exit in the men's individual event losing to Adrian Crișan of Romania.

2018

He won three medals in 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, gold in men's team event with Anthony Amalraj, Harmeet Desai, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Sanil Shetty silver in men's doubles with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & bronze in men's singles event.

2019

In 2019 he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award and in 2022, he was awarded the Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour.

His ITTF world ranking is 32.