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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) held a small felicitation function for gold-winning Olympian Neeraj Chopra. He has been awarded a prize money of INR 1 crore. Boxer Lovlina Borgohain the bronze medallist gets INR 25 lakhs. The men's hockey team gets a combined INR 1 crore. Manpreet Singh, the captain, picks up the cheque from Sourav Ganguly.
Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra became only the second Indian to win an individual gold in the Olympics, out-performing the field by quite a distance to notch up the first track-and-field Games medal for the country.
The 23-year-old farmer's son from Khandra village near Panipat in Haryana produced a second round throw of 87.58m in the finals to stun the athletics world and end India's 100-year wait for a track and field medal in the Olympics. Chopra won the country's seventh medal and first gold in the Tokyo Olympics and joined shooter Abhinav Bindra (2008 Beijing Games) as India's individual gold winners in the showpiece.
Meanwhile, Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) also hoggled limelight in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 as she had signed off with a bronze medal in her debut Olympic Games after a comprehensive 0-5 loss to reigning world champion Busenaz Surmeneli.
Also, Indian men's hockey team displayed a great game of counter-attacking play to clinch Germany 5-4 in the bronze medal play-offs at the Tokyo Olympics. Indian men's hockey team won the Olympic medal (bronze) after a gap of 41 years. India's last of the eight Olympic gold came way back in the 1980 Moscow Games.
