Rupinder Pal Singh and Harmanpreet Singh win Sportsman of the Yr (Workforce Sports activities) on the 2022 Sportstar Aces Awards on the Taj Mahal Resort in Mumbai on Saturday.
Rupinder Pal has now donned the Indian colors in 223 worldwide matches, since making his debut in 2010, performed an indispensable position in India’s bronze-medal win in Tokyo.
The drag-flicker struck 4 essential objectives within the event, together with a penalty stroke, within the essential play off in opposition to Germany to assist win a historic bronze medal.
The Indian males’s hockey workforce ended a 41-year await an Olympic medal by clinching the bronze with an exhilarating 5-4 victory over Germany. By the 25-minute mark, India was down 1-3 just for Harmanpreet Singh to attain twice from penalty corners to make it 3-3 and Simranjeet Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh to present India a 5-3 lead with rather less than two quarters left.
Legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, former India hockey captain M. M. Somaya, chess nice Viswanathan Anand, former India soccer skipper Bhaichung Bhutia and Olympians Anjali Bhagwat and Aparna Popat are the members of the Sportstar Aces 2022 jury.