Sabir Nishat, Deputy Director of Assam Information Centre, New Delhi, informed that Santanu Deuri, Director of Assam pavilion received the silver medal from Pradeep Singh Kharola, Chairman and Managing Director, India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) on the last day of the trade fair on Monday.
Odisha see more success at the ongoing 37th National Games as Kayaking and Canoeing team secured two medals including a silver medal in K2 M+1000m event and a bronze Medal C2M-1000m on Saturday.
Olympians Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar won a silver medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the FISU World University Games in Chengdu, China
Despite the first Monday of the World Games, ticking off all the cliches about dreariness, greyness and an overwhelmingly cloudy sky offering no sun, no rain or shine, the Indian contingent found their silver lining quite literally, with the first medals from this year's event, won by T Vishal in powerlifting.
Javelin thrower Arjun of Modern Public School Shalimar Bagh (MPS) brought laurels to the country and school by winning the silver medal in the boy's Javelin Throw at the 5th Asian Youth Athletics Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The Head Coach is optimistic about Bapi’s prospects in the upcoming events too. He will next be vying for honours in the Commonwealth Championships in August.
Sabita, hails from Sundergarh, Odisha, the youngest of six siblings, joined the Odisha Reliance foundation HPC in 2019, and that has had a transformational impact on her life with an improvement in her timing by more than two seconds in the years since.
"I heard a snap-like sound during the second attempt in clean and jerk and dropped the weights. After that my coach had a look at my arm, there was a lot of pain but I had to make the third attempt. I tried to secure the gold, but i could not do it,"
Sanket managed a total lift of 248kg (113kg in snatch and 135kg in clean & jerk) to open India's account in the ongoing multi-nation event.
Praveen's silver medal is India's 11th medal at Tokyo 2020, which includes two gold, six silver and three bronze medals.
