MUMBAI: The $13 billion JSW Group has announced awards amounting to more than Rs 25 million for all the Indian medal winners at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics 2020.
These cash awards are a goodwill gesture by JSW to all the Indian athletes who brought home an Olympic medal and made India proud. At the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics 2020, India brought home its highest medal tally including one Gold.
The details of JSW Group’s cash awards are as follows:
1. Neeraj Chopra will be awarded Rs 10m cash grant while his coach Klaus Bartonietz and Physiotherapist Ishaan Marwaha will be awarded Rs 1m each. Neeraj Chopra became India’s second individual Gold medal winner as well as India’s first track-and-field medal winner at an Olympic Games. He threw his javelin 87.58 meters to clinch the Gold medal.
2. Bajrang Punia will be awarded Rs 1.5m while his coach Emzarios Bentinidis & Physiotherapist Manish Chetri will be awarded Rs 500,000 each. Wrestler Bajrang Punia became the third Indian debutant to win a medal at Tokyo 2020.
3. Ravi Dahiya will be awarded Rs 2m while his coach Satpal Singh will be awarded Rs 500,000. Ravi won the Silver medal in men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling. He is an Olympic debutant.
4. The Indian men's hockey team members will be awarded Rs 200,000 each to all 16 players in the squad as well as head coach, head physio & assistant coach. A grant of Rs 100,000 each will also be awarded to 4 other coaching staff. After 41 years, the Indian men’s hockey team won an Olympic medal, the precvious one being Gold at the Moscow Olympics 1980.
5. PV Sindhu will be awarded Rs 1.5m while her coach Park Tae-Sang will be awarded Rs 500,000. PV Sindhu brough home a Bronze medal in women’s singles badminton. She became the first Indian woman and only the second Indian athlete to win two individual Olympic medals.
6. Lovlina Borgohain will be awarded Rs 1.5m while her coaches Raffaele Bergamasco and Sandhya Gurung will be awarded Rs 500,000 each. Lovlina Borgohain brought home a Bronze medal in women’s welterweight (64-69kg). She is an Olympic debutant winner.
7. Mirabai Chanu will be awarded Rs 2 million while her coach Vijay Sharma will be awarded Rs 500,000. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu opened India’s medal tally at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a Silver in the women’s 49kg. She is an Olympic debutant winner.
According to Parth Jindal, founder of Inspire Institute of Sport and JSW Sports: “These Indian athletes created history for India at Tokyo Olympics 2020 in more ways than one. JSW Group acknowledges the contribution of each of these athletes and their coaches in ensuring the Indian flag was flying high at Tokyo. While cricket has been India's No. 1 sport, I believe that as a country of 1.4 billion, we have much more space for new sports stars to emerge. This year’s performance has been the tipping point for India to acknowledge and recognize our sporting achievement and potential on a global stage. I am confident that we can expect India to perform even better at Paris 2024.”
The cash grants announced by JSW Group will be awarded to the athletes in September at a ceremony to be scheduled at the Inspire Institute of Sport.
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