India had its biggest medal haul at the Tokyo Olympics with one gold, two silver and four bronze medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The unprecedented medal haul by Indian sportspersons at this year\u2019s Olympics and Paralympics has resulted in a highest-ever number of recommendations for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tokyo Olympics javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra, silver medallist wrestler Ravi Dahiya, bronze-winning boxer Lovlina Borgohain and hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh are among 11 names selected for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, the country\u2019s highest sporting honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India had its biggest medal haul at the Tokyo Olympics with one gold, two silver and four bronze medals. The other three medallists \u2013 wrestler Bajrang Punia, shuttler\u00a0PV Sindhu \u00a0and weightlifter\u00a0Mirabhai Chanu \u00a0\u2013 have already been conferred with the Khel Ratna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India had its biggest medal haul at the Tokyo Olympics with one gold, two silver and four bronze medals. The unprecedented medal haul by Indian sportspersons at this year\u2019s Olympics and Paralympics has resulted in a highest-ever number of recommendations for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards. Tokyo Olympics javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra, silver … Continue reading ** Biggest medal haul, longest list of awardees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,19,189,20,12,22,21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-records-in-asia","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-commonwealth-nations","category-records-india-national","category-sports","category-top-10-in-asia","category-top-10-in-the-world","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12474,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/12474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}