While the country is rejoicing its badminton team’s historic Thomas Cup triumph in Bangkok, J Jerlin Anika is another Indian shuttler who has been making waves with her unprecedented gold-medal winning feat in Deaflympics in Brazil.

The hearing-impaired shuttler, 18,  from Madurai also achieved something unique—three gold medals at the 24th Summer Deaflympics at Caxias do Sul in Brazil, just a few days before the Indian men’s team dethroned Indonesia to become the Thomas Cup champions. Anika secured a gold each in women’s singles, mixed doubles and mixed team event.