Indian Hockey Goalkeeper And Skipper Conferred With The Khel Ratna award

Indian Hockey Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh and skipper Manpreet Singh presented with the honorable Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, the highest honour for a sportsperson in India.

While Sreejesh had given an excellent performance at the Tokyo Olympic Games and was also awarded the FIH Goal Keeper of the Year award in 2020-21 for his ventures securing India’s stake in the team’s Olympic Bronze medal winning achievement, Manpreet Singh Captained the Indian Men’s Hockey team.

The Indian Men’s Hockey Team created history at the Tokyo Olympics after it conquered the bronze medal in the Hockey game after gaining a miraculous triumph over Germany in the Bronze medal play-off. The Indian team thrashed Germany by 5-4, ensuring their maiden Olympics medal in 41 years.

The Indian Hockey team had got the last Olympic medal in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Sreejesh has earned the Arjuna award in 2015 and the prestigious Padma Shri in 2017.

Manpreet was basically suggested for the Arjuna award but he followed goalkeeper PR Sreejesh as the second hockey player in the list of awardees for the highest sporting honour.

The prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award is given for the striking and most distinguished performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over the previous four years. President Ram Nath Kovind gave away the National Sports Awards 2021 on Saturday at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan.