CM Yogi honours Olympians & Paralympians, says athletes must stay away from drugs

Athletes from Uttar Pradesh secured six medals, including 1 gold, astatine the Paris Olympics and Paralympics.

The CM honoured 14 Olympic and Paralympic athletes and distributed a prize wealth of Rs 22.70 crore for making the authorities and the state proud. The lawsuit was attended by 7 medal-winning Olympians and Paralympians, and arsenic galore different participants successful the games. The medal winners who were honoured included Praveen Kumar, Suhas LY, Ajit Singh, Preeti Pal, Simran, Lalit Upadhyay, and Raj Kumar Pal.  Adityanath said the erstwhile athletes having participated successful the Olympics, Paralympics, the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, and World Championships are being appointed arsenic trainers to manager young players successful the state.

The authorities authorities has introduced the Laxman Award for athletes participating successful immoderate planetary contention and the Rani Laxmibai Award for pistillate athletes, which includes some a currency prize and a citation, helium added.

The authorities government, helium said, has decided to name athletes who elevate the state’s and country’s pridefulness successful sports arsenic gazetted officers. Two players volition beryllium appointed arsenic lawman superintendent of police, 2 arsenic naib tehsildar, 1 arsenic gross taxation officer, and 2 arsenic territory younker payment officer, helium announced.

Praveen Kumar, a para precocious jumper from Gautam Buddha Nagar, won the golden astatine the Paralympics and received a currency prize of Rs 6 crore. Lalit Upadhyay from Varanasi and Rajkumar Pal from Ghazipur, who played for the Indian hockey team, bagged bronze medal successful the Olympics and were awarded Rs 1 crore each.

State-cadre IAS serviceman Suhas LY secured a metallic medal successful badminton astatine the Paralympics , portion Ajit Singh from Etawah won metallic successful the javelin propulsion lawsuit successful para athletics. Both were awarded Rs 4 crore each for their achievement.

The CM besides honoured four coaches who trained the athletes for the Olympics and Paralympics. They are Gajendra Singh (para athlete), Gaurav Khanna (para badminton), Rakesh Kumar Yadav (para athlete), and Satyapal Singh (para athlete). Adityanath said coaches play a important relation successful refining athletes for competitions.