🚣🚴🏇🏊 *SPORTS*
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*OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024 (26 JULY 2024 – 11 AUGUST 2024)*
1. Aman Sehrawat defeated Darian Toi Cruz of Puerto Rico 13-5 in the Men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling category at the Champ de Arena on Friday to win India’s first wrestling medal at the Paris Games. The young wrestler clinched India’s fifth bronze at the Paris Olympics.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and congratulated him for winning the silver medal at the Paris Olympics 2024.
3. Madhya Pradesh, the state Government declared a reward of one crore rupees for Vivek Sagar Prasad, who is a member of the Indian men’s hockey team that secured a bronze medal in the Paris Olympics.
4. Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Maryam Nawaz, has announced a 10 crore (PKR) cash prize for javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem, who smashed the Olympic record en route an unprecedented gold in Paris, a remarkable turnaround for the athlete who had to seek crowd funding for a new javelin months before the Games.
5. *India’s medals and records at Paris 2024 – so far*
1. Neeraj Chopra (athletics) – Silver
2. Aman Sehrawat (wrestling) – Bronze
3. Indian men’s hockey team – Bronze
4. Swapnil Kusale (shooting) – Bronze
5. Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh (shooting) – Bronze
Manu Bhaker (shooting) – Bronze
*RECORDS*
1. Aged 21 years and 24 days, Aman Sehrawat became India’s youngest medallist in an individual event at the Olympics.
2. Neeraj Chopra became the first track and field athlete in independent India to win two medals at the Olympics.
3. For the first time since Munich 1972, India bagged back-to-back Olympic medals in men’s hockey.
4. Lakshya Sen was the first Indian male badminton player to reach the singles semi-finals at the Olympic Games.
5. India beat Australia in men’s hockey at the Summer Games for the first time in 52 years.
6. Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat finished fourth in the mixed team archery competition, securing India’s best result in the sport at the Olympics.
7. Three medals in shooting at Paris 2024 resulted in India’s best tally in a sport in a single edition of the Summer Games.
8. Manika Batra became the first Indian table tennis player to make the pre-quarterfinals in a singles event at the Olympics.
9. Manu Bhaker became the first athlete from independent India to win two medals at one edition of the Olympic Games.
10. Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh bagged India’s first shooting team medal at the Olympics.
Manu Bhaker, remarkably, became the first Indian female shooter to win a medal at the Olympics.
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