Former Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin and hockey icon PR Sreejesh have been awarded the distinguished Padma Awards. Ashwin has been honoured with Padma Shri, whereas Sreejesh has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan.
They’re among the many 5 sports activities personalities to be honoured with the civilian awards. Paralympic gold medallist Harvinder Singh (Padma Shri), former footballer Inivalappil Mani Vijayan (Padma Shri) and well-known athletics coach Satyapal Singh (Padma Shri) have additionally been awarded the distinguished awards.
For 2025, President Droupadi Murmu has authorised 139 Padma Awards together with a duo case. The duo case is counted as one award.
Ashwin has been a legend for Indian cricket throughout his enjoying days. Ashwin is an ODI World Cup 2011 and Champions trophy 2013 winner with the Indian staff. The spin all-rounder has been one of many largest match-winners for the Indian staff throughout his enjoying days.
The star all-rounder is India’s second-highest wicket-taker in assessments with 537 scalps to his identify in 106 matches. Ashwin additionally has 3503 runs to his identify and 6 centuries within the red-ball format. He has 156 ODI wickets and 72 T20I scalps too.
In the meantime, Sreejesh is an Indian hockey legend too. He has performed a vital function in India successful back-to-back bronze medals on the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. India had defeated Germany within the bronze medal playoff within the Tokyo Video games, whereas they outclassed Spain in Paris in 2024.
Harvinder Singh gained a historic gold medal within the Paralympic Video games 2024 in Archery. He had turn out to be the primary Indian to win a gold in Archery on the Paralympic Video games after defeating Poland’s Lukasz Ciszek 6-0 within the last of the Males’s Particular person Recurve Open.
Inivalappil Mani Vijayan is India’s former soccer captain, having performed alongside Bhaichung Bhutia as a striker within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. He was additionally named the Indian Participant of the 12 months in 1993, 1997 and 1999. He has additionally gained an Arjuna Award in 2003. In the meantime, Satyapal is an Indian para-athletics coach and can be the pinnacle of the Goal Olympic Medal Sports activities Academy.