Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], October 8 (ANI): Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday introduced a money award of Rs 50 lakh for Odisha’s hockey star Deep Grace Ekka for her position in securing India’s bronze medal on the nineteenth Asian Games Hangzhou 2022.
The CM expressed his heartfelt congratulations to Deep Grace Ekka, acknowledging her outstanding efficiency and calling her a task mannequin for the youth of the state, as per a press launch from the federal government.
The Chief Minister stated, “Deep Grace Ekka has become a symbol of hope and pride for aspiring athletes in the country. Deep has proved her tenacity with some astounding performances and I am sure that she will continue to make India proud and showcase the spirit of perseverance and excellence that she has been displaying.”The 28-year-old, who hails from Lulkidihi village in Sundargarh district, made her worldwide debut in 2011 in the course of the Four-Nation Tournament in Argentina and since then, she has been an integral a part of the nationwide workforce. In May 2023, she accomplished 250 International Caps.
She was a part of the Indian workforce that took half within the Rio Olympic Games — India eves’ first look since 1980 and the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
She was additionally an integral a part of the workforce that gained the bronze medal on the Women’s Asia Cup 2013, gold on the 2016 Asian Champions Trophy, gold within the Asia Cup in 2017, silver on the Asian Champions Trophy in 2018, silver in 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang and the Bronze in Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The ace defender additionally performed a key position in India’s gold medal win on the inaugural FIH Women’s Nations Cup in Spain in 2022.’Indian hockey groups secured medals in each males’s and girls’s competitors on the just lately concluded Asian Games. While the lads’s workforce beat Japan 5-1 to get the gold medal, the ladies’s workforce defeated Japan 2-1 within the bronze medal match to get the medal.
The Indian contingent bagged a document 107 medals – 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze – in Hangzhou, surpassing their earlier greatest, set at 2018 Jakarta.
The 650 athletes that India dispatched to Hangzhou for the continental meet have completed with the 100-mark was one thing that felt like a pipe dream for a lot of. (ANI)