Neha Aggarwal is an India

India

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n table tennis

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 player who participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics

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 in Beijing

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, the only woman from India to feature in that discipline. Aggarwal earned her position at the Olympics by defeating Poulomi Ghatak

Poulomi Ghatak

Poulomi Ghatak , born 3 Jan 1983, a table tennis player from West Bengal, India. She won three junior national championships as well as five senior national championships between 1998 and 2007....

 and Mouma Das

Mouma Das

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, who had been favored to win. The Delhi

Delhi

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 girl, who did her schooling from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram

Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram

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, was the winner of Junior National Table Tennis Championship held at Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

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 and Kolkota. She did not receive a medal, having been eliminated after losing to Chinese

China

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 born Australia

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n Jiang Fang Lay.

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