New Delhi: the president Draupadi Murmu Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Monday honored Paralympics gold medalist para high jumper Praveen Kumar with the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth highest civilian honour. It may be noted that in January this year, the President announced the Padma Award, in which 9 eminent persons were selected, including Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma.

Harmanpreet Kaur created history last year. She became the first woman captain to win the World Cup for India. Kaur has been honored with the Padma Shri for her illustrious career, achievements and leadership. While announcing her name, Harmanpreet Kaur said that her father was informed about this by a call from Rashtrapati Bhavan. He expressed happiness that his parents came to know about this before him. He congratulated Rohit Sharma and said it was a great moment for him too. The video was later posted on social media by Mumbai Indians.

Punjab cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur has played 7 Tests, 164 One Day Internationals and 195 Twenty20 Internationals for India. In that he scored 230, 4541 and 3991 runs respectively.

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Para High Jumper Praveen Kumar hails from Govindagarh in Uttar Pradesh, studied from Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University. Praveen won gold medal (High Jump T64) at Paris Paralympics 2024, silver medal at Tokyo Paralympics 2020. He won a bronze medal at the World Championships held in Delhi last year and a gold medal at the 2022 Asian Para Games (Hangzhou).

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However, Harmanpreet accepted the award on Sunday in Mumbai IPLRohit could not come to Delhi to accept the award on Monday due to the match. He will later receive this award.

Padma award to these players

  • Padmashri – Baladev Singh
  • Padma Shri – Harmanpreet Kaur
  • Padmashri – Bhagwan Das Rakwar
  • Padmashri-K. Pazinivel
  • Padma Shri – Rohit Sharma
  • Padma Shri – Savita Punia
  • Padma Shri – Praveen Kumar
  • Padma Shri – Vladimir Mestvirishvili (Posthumous)
  • Padma Bhushan – Vijay Amritraj





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