Uttarakhand’s amazing performance… players will become rich, government will now give prizes to medal winners
Uttarakhand has created a record of winning 101 medals for the first time in the National Games. The state’s daughter Jyoti won the first medal in Wushu. After which the players made a splash by performing brilliantly in boxing, athletics, modern pentathlon, judo, canoeing and kayaking, yogasana, lawnball and wrestling. The government will now give a fixed amount of money and job as a reward to the medal winners.
Uttarakhand’s best performance in the National Games was in Modern Pentathlon. In which Mamta Khatri, Monika, Manju Goswami, Saksham Singh, Neeraj Negi, Lal Singh won gold medals. In this, the state got the maximum 14 medals including six gold medals. Five gold medals were won in canoeing and kayaking, three in boxing, two each in athletics, taekwondo and judo.
Kapil Pokhariya, Nivedita Karki and Narendra Singh of the state won gold with their punches in boxing. At the same time, Ankita had the best performance in athletics. Ankita Dhyani, who won the first gold medal for the state in this competition, won one gold medal each in the 3000 and 5000 meter races in the women’s category. While she won a silver medal in the 10,000 meter race.
Uttam Rana in wrestling, Sonia and Rosie Devi in women’s kayaking, Meera Das, Prabhat Kumar, Siddharth Rawat in Judo, Pooja in Taekwondo, Utkrisht Dwivedi in lawn ball, Rohit Yadav, Shashank Sharma, Priyanshu, Ajay Verma in yogasana, Reena Sain in canoeing and kayaking and Achom Tapas in Wushu, along with many other players, have won gold and silver for the state. Experts say that the players of the state have performed better than expected.
The medal winning players in the National Games will get a fixed amount of Rs 6 to 32 lakh. The bronze medal winner will be given a prize money of Rs 6 lakh. While the gold medal winner will get Rs 12 lakh per gold medal.
Ankita Dhyani had the best performance in athletics. She won two gold and one silver medal. She will get Rs 32 lakh as fixed prize money.
The government will give a fixed amount of money per medal to the medal winners of the National Games. They will also get jobs. A policy has already been made for this.
-Rekha Arya, Sports Minister
