Sports

Arundhati Choudhary is a boxing champion from Kota, Rajasthan, and the first woman from the state to win a gold at the AIBA World Youth Boxing Championship in 2020.

Siddharth Singh, CEO and founder of Crosstrain Fight Club, gave up a high paying job in the UK, went bankrupt and came out on the other side to train India's best mixed martial arts fighters.

Using IBM’s computers and statistics, A. Salam Qureishi developed a system that would not only dramatically change the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys but revolutionise the National Football League (NFL).

Mohammad Shams Alam Shaikh from Gurugram is an international level swimmer who has been competing in para-sports since 2012. He recently won three medals in the 20th National Para-Swimming Championship.

Shivani and Deepthi Pruthvi, mother and daughter from Karnataka, are professional rally racers and practising doctors, who drove in the First All-Women Racing Team in India.

The exemplary stories of these young women are testimony to the invisible battles won with sheer determination and courage.

How Recognize Rise and Empower Association (RREA), a non-profit in Manipur, delivers quality education and is ending clash of the clans through sports. Their Sports for Social Development programme in Kamjong district is significantly improving students' attendance, too.

Delhi-based Rishitaa Jain is a powerlifter who began her training in 2017 under Javed Mehta. She won four gold medals at the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship held in Canada.

Sanjay Pathak, a government school teacher from Laxmipur village in Bihar, runs the Rani Laxmibai Sports Academy, where he currently trains around 55 young girls from his village. All free of cost

Delhi’s Karan Singh has used his six years of experience in training with international coaches in the US to scout for local talent from tribal areas of Jharkhand. Through the Indian Track Foundation, he is training these children to become middle and long-distance runners and win medals for India in the 2028 LA Olympics, and beyond.