PR Sreejesh receives Padma Bhushan; R Ashwin, Harvinder Singh amongst Padma Shri recipients

Indian hockey legend PR Sreejesh was honoured with the Padma Bhushan on Saturday whereas cricket icon Ravichandran Ashwin was amongst 4 recipients of the Padma Shri from the world of sport. Former India males’s hockey captain Sreejesh isn’t the one athlete from Kerala among the many record of recipients as famend footballer IM Vijayan was additionally amongst these profitable the Padma Shri.

Sreejesh has been conferred with India’s third-highest civilian award almost six months after enjoying an necessary function in serving to the nation
win its second consecutive Olympic bronze medal in August. The 36-year-old, nicknamed the ‘Nice Wall of India’, had introduced his glittering 18-year worldwide profession to a becoming finish after the Harmanpreet Singh-led and Craig Fulton-coached facet defeated Spain 2-1 within the Paris 2024 bronze playoff.

Sreejesh, who hails from Kizhakkambalam close to Kochi, was additionally a part of the Indian staff that had received bronze within the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 – India’s first Olympic bronze in additional than 4 many years. He had additionally received gold medals on the Asian Video games in 2014 and 2022 and was additionally adjudged the FIH Goalkeeper of the 12 months a report thrice (2020, 2022, and 2024).

Moreover Ashwin and Vijayan, para-archer Harvinder Singh and para-athletics coach Satyapal Singh have been named for the Padma Shri – India’s fourth-highest civilian award.

A complete of 4 athletes and a para-athletics coach have been included within the record of 139 recipients of the civilian awards on Saturday.

Ashwin, who had taken the cricketing world unexpectedly by
asserting his worldwide retirement halfway in the course of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, collected greater than 700 wickets in his storied 14-year worldwide profession together with 537 in Checks – the second-highest by an Indian and the eighth-highest total within the format.

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Ashwin was additionally a useful batter down the order, scoring 3,503 runs at a mean of 25.75 together with six centuries and 14 half-centuries.

Vijayan, a legendary striker from Thrissur, is taken into account to be certainly one of India’s biggest footballers of all time, having scored 29 objectives from 72 appearances for the Blue Tigers in an 11-year worldwide profession and likewise representing iconic groups resembling Mohun Bagan and East Bengal in a membership profession that spanned almost 20 years.

“It’s a nice honor for me, particularly as I strategy my retirement from police service. I dedicate this award to soccer lovers throughout India and the world,” Vijayan instructed the media on Saturday.

Harvinder had turn into the
first Indian para-archer to win Paralympic gold within the Paris 2024 Video games in September – during which the nation had received a staggering 29 medals together with seven gold.

Satyapal, in the meantime, had coached para-high jumper Praveen Kumar – who was amongst
4 athletes to win the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award – to gold on the Paralympics.

A complete of seven Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri awardees have been included within the remaining record.