She also won gold at the 2018 Youth Olympics Games and shot a Commonwealth Games record of 240.9 points to win gold in the 10m air pistol event in the same year.
She added a further gold medal in 2019 by claiming the 10m air pistol event at the World Cup finals.
“It feels like my hard work has been recognised. It feels like people know about my hard work now,” she said while addressing the ceremony.
The five nominees for the BBC Indian Sportswoman award were announced in February, having been chosen by a panel of sports journalists, writers and experts.
In the run up to the event a ‘Sports Hackathon’ was held, with the aim of adding more information about Indian sportswomen to Wikipedia in Indian languages. The project focused on athletes about whom there was minimal or no information available on the online encyclopaedia.
More than 300 entries of 50 Indian sportswomen were added into the site in collaboration with 300 journalism students in 13 universities across India.
The season also captured inspiring stories of five Indian sportswomen who have overcome barriers or sexism and gender inequality. The ‘Changemakers’ series featured para-badminton player Parul Parmar, heptathlete Swapna Barman, para-skater Priyanka Devan, former kho-kho player Sarika Kale and wrestler Divya Kakran.
Update 22 April 2021: This article was amended to make clear Humpy was the first female grandmaster after earlier versions said she was the first grandmaster.
Correction 5th September 2022: This article originally described Koneru Humpy as the World Rapid Chess champion and has been amended to clarify that she is the former women’s World Rapid Chess champion