Meet the jury of ESPN India Awards: Nachappa, Popat, Renedy and extra

Chetan Baboor (table tennis): Four-time country-wide champion and two-time gold medallist at the Commonwealth Championships, Baboor owned Indian table tennis during his era along with Kamlesh Mehta and Achanta Sharath Kamal. He played effectively inside the Swedish league within the 1990s before retiring from the sport to pursue a corporate career in the US.

Ashish Ballal (hockey): Flamboyant goalkeeper and a pivotal member of the 1998 Asian Games gold-medal-winning hockey crew. Ballal played 275 internationals for India and scored a hat-trick at the Olympics, the World Cup, and the Champions Trophy in the 1990s. Fearless in intention and outspoken off the field, he became a part of the group that made successive Asian Games finals in the 1990s. Before winning gold after 32 years in Seoul. After retirement, he now runs a coaching academy in Bangalore.

Abhinav Bindra (shooting) – India’s first individual Olympic gold medallist, Bindra’s aggressive career spanned more than 15 years. Since retiring in 2016, he has labored with authorities and non-authorities bodies in review and policy programs and set up contemporary sports activities technology centers in towns.

Rahul Bose (rugby) – Actor, social activist, rugby participant, and boxer, Rahul Bose should equally describe himself as a champion for Indian recreation. Bose can be acknowledged for his paintings within the movie industry. However, he changed into one of the pioneering first XV in Indian rugby, which performed its first international in 1998. He is worried about several charitable instructions and set up The Foundation, an NGO for education and assistance of youngsters within the Andaman & Nicobar Islands following the 2004 tsunami.

Manisha Malhotra (tennis) – National champion, India’s Fed Cup team member, and an Asian Games silver medallist, Malhotra has observed up her successful gambling profession using taking a lively component in supporting India’s athletes. She changed into in rate of the Mittal Champions Trust, one of the first non-public non-income establishments set up to assist elite Indian athletes.

Nisha Millet (swimming) – The first Indian girl to move below a minute in the 100m freestyle, Millet dominated swimming in India through the Nineties. Her 200m and 400m freestyle statistics stayed for 15 years, and they represented India at the Asian Games, World Championships, and the Sydney Olympics. Since retiring in 2004, she has coached the subsequent technology of young swimmers at her academy.

Ashwini Nachappa (athletics) – Sprinter, administrator, educationist, actor. Ashwini Nachappa has been one of the most impactful voices in Indian athletics. A runner and a lengthy jumper in the 1980s, she represented India at the Asian Games and the World Championships, part of the iconic Indian ladies’ 4×400m relay team. Nachappa is one of the rare women to make an area for herself in active management and has also set up an athletics school in her home district of Coorg.

Aparna Popat (badminton) – A forerunner to the maximum a hit technology of Indian women’s badminton gamers, Popat became a silver medallist at the World Junior Championships and a nine-time national champion, who remained undefeated in the event till her retirement in 2006. She was ranked internationally. Sixteen at her height, she gained a silver inside the women’s singles at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and bronze medals in Manchester and Melbourne. She is a properly acknowledged badminton commentator now.

Renedy Singh (football) – Midfielder for India within the first decade of the 21st century, Renedy played fifty-nine internationals in a profession that lasted nearly two a long time. His membership career protected lengthy stints at the 2 Kolkata golf clubs and stints in the pioneering years of both JCT and Shillong Lajong. Remedies is nowadays one of the most reputable voices in Indian football as a commentator and analyst on TV.

Devarajan Venkatesan (boxing) – Winner of the bronze at the 1994 Boxing World Cup in Bangkok, Devarajan became India’s first World Cup boxing medallist outside of doors. A multiple-time national champion, he’s currently educated and one of the top-quality boxing analysts in India. Rohit Brijnath – A sports activities creator with ‘The Straits Times’ in Singapore and co-creator of Abhinav Bindra’s autobiography ‘A Shot at History,’ Brijnath is the byline Indian sports enthusiasts look for while following a story.

• Jayaditya Gupta – Executive editor, ESPN India, and ESPNcricinfo.
• Sharda Ugra – Senior editor, ESPN India, and ESPNcricinfo.
• Debayan Sen – Senior assistant editor, ESPN India.