Mahesh Mangaonkar Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More
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Age: 29 Years
Hometown: Helsinki
Wife: Maarit
Some Lesser Known Facts About Mahesh Mangaonkar
- He won the British Junior Open squash championship in the Under-15 category in 2009.
- He was admitted as a professional athlete into the Professional Squash Association (PSA) in January 2012.
- He made his PSA World Tour debut at the age of eighteen. He won his first PSA World Tour title at the Prague Open in the Czech Republic.
- He competed in the 2013 PSA World Tour Challenger 5 tournament in Bratislava, Slovakia, and won the semi-final match against Czech Republic’s Jan Koukal, the two-time champion of the PSA World Tour.
- In the final match, he defeated Scotland’s Greg Lobban and became the first Indian to win the IMET Open.
- He competed for the Indian men’s national squash team in 2014, along with Saurav Ghosal, Kush Kumar, and Harinder Pal Sandhu.
- At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, the Indian team defeated Malaysia in the finals and won the gold medal.
- In 2016, he won the Sekisui Open held in Kriens, Switzerland.
- He defeated Abhishek Pradhan in the 76th Senior National Squash Championship held in Pune in June 2019.
- He started working as a Level 1 trainer at Crossfit, Finland in September 2020.
- He began working as a part-time coach for the men’s national team at the Finnish Squash Association in June 2022.
- He is a professional sparring player associated with many European national federations.
- After residing in Finland for more than three years, he qualified to compete in the Finnish National Championship in 2022, where he won the title.
- During the 2022 PSA World Tour, he made it to the top 16 of a platinum event by giving one of his career’s best performances in the first match of the World Tour.
- He played for the Indian men’s national squash team at the 2022 Asian Games, along with Abhay Singh, Saurav Ghosal, and Harinder Pal Sandhu.
- In the 2022 Asian Games final, which took place in Hangzhou, China, the Indian team defeated Pakistan to win the gold medal.
- He has played for various clubs including the Dutch League, English League, Czech League, Swedish League, Finnish League, Italian League, German League, and French League.
- He is the Norges Squashforbund’s Head of Sports in Oslo, Norway.
- According to him, one of his biggest supporters has been his mother.
- At the age of 19, he relocated to Europe from Mumbai.
- The main goal of Mahesh Mangaonkar is to compete in the Olympics and win a medal. The International Olympic Committee formally recommended squash’s inclusion in the 2028 Olympic Games in October 2023.
- In 2018, he got injured, and the pain worsened after the 2019 Tournament of Champions in New York following which he went for treatment in February 2020.
- He mainly uses racquets from Prince Sports.
- According to him, one of the most dangerous things he has ever done is climb a 6150 m high peak in Leh.
- In May 2023, he joined CalevaLAB as a thesis student.