Nethra Kumanan (born 21 August 1997) is an Olympian from India in the Sport of ILCA6 Women (popularly known as Laser Radial Sailing).

She claimed the quota under the Emerging Nations Programme and acknowledged as the second to qualify from India after Vishnu Saravanan.

Earlier, she joined Anna University and took up Mechanical Engineering under the sports quota in 2017 but had to drop out after a year to prepare for the Asian Games.

[1] Earlier in January 2020, Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman to win a bronze medal at the Hempel Sailing World Cup Series, in Miami, U.S.A. She has also won over 20 medals at national and international sailing championships and trained at India, Israel, Hungary, Denmark and Spain.

[7] Nethra has represented India at the Asian Games in 2014 in South Korea and in 2018 in Jakarta where she finished seventh and fifth respectively.