24 Indian Armed Forces Personnel At Paris Olympics, Maiden Participation Of Female Service Athletes
Among the 24 Indian Armed Forces personnel is ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra who will be defending his gold medal from Tokyo.
New Delhi: Twenty-four personnel from the military, which involves ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and two women participants, are a lot of the 117 Indian athletes who are set to take a examine their mettle on the 2024 Paris Olympics. The presence of these two women athletes within the contingent, marks the maiden participation of lady service athletes on the Olympics, the Ministry of Defence in a announcement on Saturday. Chopra, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medallist, is a subedar within the Indian Militia.
Chopra will once additional vie for the right honours as his participation within the Paris Olympics comes on the lower again of tremendous performances which earned him a gold medal every on the 2023 Asian Video games, 2023 World Athletics Championship, 2024 Diamond League, and 2024 Paavo Nurmi Video games, the announcement brought up.
Additionally, 2022 Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist Havildar Jaismine Lamboria and 2023 Asian Wrestling Championships bronze medallist CPO Ritika Hooda are the 2 women service personnel who are taking part within the Video games for the relevant time, and would goal to create archives. They'll feature in boxing and wrestling respectively, it launched.
Sub Amit Panghal (boxing); CPO Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot-put); Sub Avinash Mukund Sable (3000m steeplechase); CPO Muhammed Anas Yahiya, PO(GW) Muhammed Ajmal, Sub Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan and JWO Mijo Chacko Kurian (4X400M guys’s relay); JWO Abdulla Aboobacker (triple soar); Sub Tarundeep Rai and Sub Dhiraj Bommadevara (archery) and Nb Sub Sandeep Singh (capturing) are additionally a lot of the service personnel who would goal to bring laurels to the kingdom.
The India Militia had as of late in a post on X brought up, “13 #IndianArmy athletes may perhaps be taking part in 7 disciplines on the #ParisOlympics2024. The Indian Militia’s daring presence involves athletes favourite for his or her tremendous capabilities and past achievements on the world stage.” Militia Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi had unless now interacted, by utilizing utilizing video conference, with Indian Militia athletes who are set to signify India within the upcoming Paris Olympics.
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