Sports Minister Felicitates Asian Games 2022 Medallists

Khel Today Bureau 

New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur  felicitated athletes from the Asian Games who returned to India post finishing their competitions. The event was held on Thursday at  Constitution Club of India in New Delhi.

A total of 27 athletes from Shooting, Rowing, and Women’s Cricket teams were felicitated with the cheques of award money by the Minister. The Women’s Cricket team, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, clinched a historic gold at the event, while a total of 5 medals (2 silver, 3 bronze) were won in Rowing. Most of the medals so far have come from Shooting, with our rifle, shotgun and pistol teams bagging 13 medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver & 5 Bronze).

Sports Minister congratulated the athletes on their outstanding performances at the Asian Games. “I congratulate all the athletes and coaches. These feats have taken them years of toil. You might find some of the regions these history-making rowers belong from may have shortage of water, but they have bagged medals in a water sports event. We also got historic gold in Equestrian,” the Hon’ble Minister said.

“In Shooting we saw our spirit and resilience. From TOPS Athlete Sift Kaur Samra, who not only won Gold but also registered a world record score in the women’s 50m rifle 3P event to Khelo India Athlete Ruddranksh Patil, who won gold at the 10m air rifle, all of our shooters did exceptionally well,” added Shri Thakur.

List of athletes and coaches felicitated on Thursday:

1.Harmanpreet Kaur
2.Amanjot
3.Shafali
4.Kanika
5.Ramita
6.Mehuli
7.Divyansh
8.Rudrankansh
9.Anish
10.Vijayveer
11.Adarsh
12.Satnam
13.Parminder
14.Inderpal
15.Jakar khan
16.Sukhmeet Singh
17.Arvind singh
18.Arjun lal Jat
19.Babu lal Yadav
20.Lekh Ram
21.Jaswinder Singh
22.Bheem Singh
23.Punit kumar
24.Ashish
25.Neeraj kalwaniya
26.Pande
27.Neetiesh
28.Charanjeet Singh
29.Bajrang lal Thakar
30.Rajesh kumar Yadav

31. Suma shirur.