Savita Punia the world's best Hockey Goalkeeper of 2022, was born on July 11, 1990, in Jodhkan village of Sirsa district, Haryana. Encouraged by her grandfather, Ranjit Singh Punia, she took up hockey and joined the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Centre, Hisar, where she trained under Sunder Singh Kharab.
Her family motivated her to join the newly launched sports nursery in Sirsa in 2003. She became a member of the Indian hockey team in 2009, which participated in the Junior Asia Cup and then went on to play an important role in bringing home a Bronze, at the Women’s Asia Cup 2013, Malaysia.
She has to her credit, more than 100 international games, including the coveted Rio Olympics 2016 in Brazil, where her outstanding performance placed India 5th- qualifying the team for the Olympics after 36 years.
During the Hawke’s Bay Cup in New Zealand, her outstanding performance contributed to India securing 6th place in the tournament. In the world league round 2, once again, her extraordinary performance helped the Indian team defeat Chile.
Naib Subedar Avinash Sable is an Indian track and field athlete, who specialises in the 3000 m steeplechase. He holds the national record of 8:11.20, set at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, where he won the silver medal. This was the ninth time that he had set the national record and the first time ever for an athlete from outside Kenya to have won a medal in the men's 3000 m steeplechase at the Commonwealth Games, since 1994.
Avinash Born on September 13 ,1994, in Mandwa, in the Beed district of Maharashtra, into a family of farmers. He used to often run the 6 km (3.7 mi) distance between his home and school, right from the tender age of six, owing to the unavailability of transport.
After completing the 12th standard, he joined the 5 Mahar regiment of Indian Army and was posted at the Siachen Glacier, followed by the deserts of north-western Rajasthan. His subsequent posting was in Sikkim in 2015.
He became the first male steeplechaser from India to qualify for the World Championships, since Deena Ram (1991). Sable won the silver medal at the 2019 Asian Athletics Championship in Doha, his debut international event, with a timing of 8:30.19. On October 1, 2019, he again broke his own national record at the World Championship, where he ran to a 8:25.23 in the heats to become the first Indian to qualify for the 3000 m steeplechase final.
In the final round, he further improved the national record at 8:21.37, finishing 13th out of 16 runners and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Sable set a new national record at the 2020 Delhi Half Marathon, completing the run in less than 61 minutes. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sable placed seventh in the heats, setting a new national record to 8:18.12. He was the fastest non-qualifier across all heats.
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