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Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar To Be Conferred With SJFI Medal

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: The prestigious Sports Journalists’ Federation of India (SJFI) Medal will be conferred on legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.

This was decided at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of SJFI in Guwahati. The other recipients of the SJFI awards are:

Gold medalist in javelin throw in Tokyo Olympics Neeraj Chopra, elected for Sportsman of the Year Award

Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who won silver at the quadrennial extravaganza, was voted SJFI Sportswoman of the Year.

The Indian men’s team that won the hockey bronze in Tokyo – its first hockey medal in 40 years – was declared SJFI Team of the Year.

Sumit Antil and Pramod Bhagat, the stars of India’s Paralympics campaign, will share the SJFI Parathlete of the Year in men’s category

Shooter Avani Lekhra will receive SJFI Parathlete of the Year woman award.

Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) which has been doing pioneering work to support Indian athletes at Olympics for over a decade, will be given SJFI Special Recognition Award.

SJFI Members Elected

A. Vinod (Kerala) new SJFI president

Prashant Keni (Mumbai) Secretary

Bidyut Kalita (Assam) Treasurer

The Executive Committee members are:
Vice Presidents: Devendra Pandey (Mumbai), Vikas Pandey (Indore), Sambit Mohapatra (Odisha) and Saraju Chakraborty (Tripura).
Joint Secretary: Amitabha Das Sharma (Kolkata)

EC Members: Amol Karhadkar (Mumbai), C Santhosh Kumar (Tamil Nadu), Suprabhat Debnath (Tripura), Partha Chakraborty (Assam), Sushim Ghosh (Assam), Nilesh Deshpande (Nagpur), Tushar Trivedi (Gujarat).

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