Mahak Chauhan

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Kalyan.Das, May 22, 2026: The Times of India

A 20-year-old athlete from a remote Uttarkashi village, who discovered rugby by chance after walking into what she thought was a race trial three years ago, became India’s standout player at the Central and South Asia Rugby 7s Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, by winning the women’s player of the tournament award in her first senior international outing.

Mahak Chauhan, from Bhadrasu village, scored nine tries for India in the tournament. India’s women’s team finished fourth, while the men’s team won silver at the inaugural CASA Rugby 7s, which was officially sanctioned by Asia Rugby and World Rugby and brought together six women’s teams — Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, India, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Mahak went for rugby trial thinking it was a race: Father

Ayush Saini, treasurer of Uttarakhand Rugby Association and coach of the Uttarakhand state women’s rugby team, told TOI Tuesday that Mahak Chauhan was India’s highest scorer in the CASA Rugby 7s tournament. “She secured nine try scores during the tournament. She impressed everyone with her pace, fitness and attack. Though the Indian team failed to get a podium finish, her individual performance made the country proud,” Saini said.


A try is the primary method of scoring in rugby, in which aplayer grounds the ball in the opponent’s goal area. 
Before the six-nation tournament, Mahak was part of the India U-20 team that won bronze in an international rugby championship in Malaysia. But rugby was never the sport she had planned for.
 She had moved to Dehradun from Uttarkashi after class 8 to continue her schooling and train better in trackand-field events.


Her father Arvendra Chauhan, a govt school teacher, said Mahak had been good at sports since childhood. “She used to participate in trackand-field events and told us to get her admitted to a school in Dehradun after class 8 so that she could train better. Neither she nor we knew about rugby. One day in 2023, she went for a trial with one of her friends in Roorkee. She was under the impression that it was a race. She performed well without knowing that the state rugby association was organising the trials,” he said. 


The organisers, including the state coach of the women’s rugby team, noticed her speed and asked her to take up the sport. “Till then, she was oblivious to the physical game. She called us and said she had been selected for the state team. But she started doing well and was soon appointed captain of the state U-18 girls’ rugby team,” her father said.