Karthi Gnanasegaram

Karthi Gnanasegaram is an English television presenter working for the BBC and IMG. As of 2011 she is a regular presenter of Sport on the BBC1 Ten o'clock News, BBC Breakfast, Today, BBC News Channel and the BBC Weekend News.

Education

She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls, a well-known public school in Edgbaston, Birmingham followed by a Classics degree at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge, she wrote for the student newspaper, Varsity.

Presenting career

After working on BBC News 24 (now BBC News) and BBC Entertainment show, Liquid News, she was a sports reporter and presenter at BBC London News until 2007. She played herself in the BBC drama The Amazing Mrs Pritchard.[1] She presented Sportsworld and StreetFood at Al Jazeera English in Doha between 2007-2009 before returning to the UK to present the news and sport for Sky News.[2] She returned to the BBC and was part of their presenting line-up at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and presented a BBC1 highlights show during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[3]

She covers the Wimbledon tennis championships [5] for BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Sport. [6] She has also appeared on BBC Radio 2. She reports for Match of the Day and Football Focus. She has covered French Open tennis, Champions League final, Open Golf Championships, Ryder Cups, Ashes cricket Tests and has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

In 2016, Karthi was part of the BBCRadio5Live team at the Rio Olympics. She was a commentator for tennis, judo and taekwondo amongst other sports at the Rio Olympic Park. [8]

She represented the University of Cambridge at tennis and badminton. She was born in Birmingham but is a Wolverhampton Wanderers fan [3,7]

References

TV Newsroom BBC Sports[4] BBC Radio 5[5]

  1. ↑ IMDB "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807980/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_9"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807980/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_9
  2. ↑ "Q&A with Karthi". Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "TV Newsroom BBC Sports". Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/bbc-radio-5-live-face-7360710"http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/bbc-radio-5-live-face-7360710 [5]
  5. ↑ "http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055dtv3"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055dtv3 [6]

8. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-08-18/rio-2016-olympics-on-tv-today-thursday-18-august--day-13


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