India’s tennis sensation and present males’s doubles World No. 1, Rohan Bopanna, together with squash participant Joshna Chinappa and former area hockey participant Harbinder Singh, have been honored with the distinguished Padma Shri award, as introduced by the Centre on Thursday.
At the age of 43, Bopanna achieved the outstanding feat of changing into the oldest World No. 1 in males’s doubles, surpassing USA’s Rajeev Ram, who held the place on the age of 38 in October 2022. Recently, Bopanna secured a spot within the second consecutive closing of the Australian Open in males’s doubles. His Grand Slam journey consists of successful the French Open title in 2017 alongside Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski, making him one among solely 4 Indians to realize such a milestone. Additionally, he clinched a gold medal with Divij Sharan in males’s doubles on the 2018 Asian Games.
Joshna Chinappa, a outstanding determine in squash, earned a bronze medal alongside Tanvi Khanna and Anahat Singh on the Hangzhou Asian Games. With this achievement, she added her fifth medal to her Asian Games tally, together with her preliminary bronze coming in ladies’s singles on the 2018 Jakarta Games. Notably, she secured one bronze and two silver medals in staff occasions.
Harbinder Singh, a distinguished former area hockey participant, contributed considerably to India’s success within the sport. As a member of the gold medal-winning staff in 1966 and a silver medal winner as captain in 1970, Singh has left an indelible mark within the historical past of Indian hockey. He additionally performed an important function in India’s victories in worldwide hockey tournaments in Lyon, France, in 1963 and Hamburg, West Germany, in 1966. In addition to his on-field accomplishments, Singh served because the chief coach of the bronze medal-winning ladies’s hockey staff within the 1986 Asian Games. Furthermore, he was a part of India’s gold medal-winning staff within the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
The Padma Shri Award in sports activities was additionally conferred upon different notable people, together with International Mallakhamb coach Uday Vishwanath Deshpande, para-badminton staff’s head coach Gaurav Khanna, para swimmer Satendra Singh Lohia, and archer and archery coach Purnima Mahato.
