Kolkata: Three-time World Cup silver medal Jyothi Surekha Vennam has been recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sports honor in the country, by the Association of Archery India (AAI).
AAI also recommends the legendary coach and RAM Waste Olympian for the Dronacharya award (a lifetime).
The National Federation also recommended the Asian Games of the Silver Medal Medal Muskan Kirar for Arjuna award and the archery coach of the famous compound of Lokesh Chand Pal for this year’s Dronacharya Award.
“Last year, the recurve archer was a national award so this time we chose from a compound section,” said Aai Top official to PTI.
The 24-year-old Jyotihi has won the individual world championship bronze medal in Den Bosch, the Netherlands in 2019.
It was a second medal at the World Championship.
He has won the silver team in Mexico in 2017, following where he was awarded the coveted Arjuna Award.
Overall, he has two silver silver medals and four bronze.
He was also a silver medalist in the World Cup final which ended in 2018 on a mixed couple with Abhishek Verma.
Jyothi was also a winner of Asian games for two times – Bronze Team in 2014 and silver in 2018 with music.
The National Federation has also nomined the childhood coach Abhishek Verma Lokesh Chand Pal for the Dronacharya award.
It was Pal who had brought Verma aged 13 years to archery before making it world champion in 2015 – the first Indians did it in a compound section.
Verma achieved that achievement again, winning the Gold Medal Phase 3 Cup 3 in Paris on Saturday.
49-year-old Indian archery legend waste RAM was struggling against neurological diseases in recent years.
He has a successful task as India’s main coach since 2009 and below it, India won several medals, including three gold medals in New Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010.
Under it, India was ranked number one in the world in the men’s recurve, while Ace Archer Deepika Kumari Also rose to the top position for the first time in his career in front of the London 2012 Olympics.
Limba had won several international medals during his career decorated and given with Arjuna Award in 1991 and Padma Shri in 2012.