Silver Medal

Priyanka Goswami becomes the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walk on August 6 when she took silver in the 10,000m event at Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham. Goswami finished second behind Australia's Jemima Montag with a personal best time of 43:38.83s. Kenya's Emily Wamusyi Ngii won bronze. Bhawna Jat, the only Indian in… read-more

Maharashtra's Sanket Sargar made history by being the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games 2022 on July 30. In Birmingham, the 21-year-old earned silver in the men's 55kg weightlifting category with a total of 248kg (113kg in snatch, 135kg in clean and jerk). Sanket Sargar injured his elbow while attempting to… read-more

Indian Para badminton, Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, has become the first-ever IAS officer to win silver in men's singles SL4 class final at the Tokyo Paralympics on September 5. Yathiraj lost his final against France's Lucas Mazur following a 62-minute summit clash after defeating Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan in the semifinal. Yathiraj is posted as a DM of Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) and has a disability due to an impairment in the ankle.

Poland's Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk who won the silver medal for Javelin's throw at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 posted on Facebook that she would go ahead and sell off her silver to pay for an 8-month-old Miloszek Malysa's heart surgery. The top contender was the Polish convenience store chain, Zabka, placing a bid of $125,000. Zabka, however, did not claim the medal and said that they would let the Olympian keep her Silver.