BYJU'S announces Rs 2 crore for Olympic Gold winner Neeraj Chopra

BYJU'S announces Rs 2 crore for Olympic Gold winner Neeraj Chopra

The ed-tech brand has also announced Rs 1 crore each for other individual Olympic medal winners.

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New Delhi : The ed-tech brand BYJU'S on Sunday announced Rs 2 crore for the Olympic Gold winner Neeraj Chopra.

Chopra achieved a historic feat on the penultimate day of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, after he won the first athletics Gold medal for India. He came out victorious in the Javelin throw competition.

With a total of seven medals, Team India gave it’s best ever Olympics performance at the Tokyo 2020 event.

Highlighting that BYJU’S is an ardent supporter of sports in the country, the brand said its making further strides into encouraging players across sports disciplines. It has also announced Rs 1 crore each for individual Olympic winners including Mirabai Chanu, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Lovlina Borgohain, PV Sindhu and Bajrang Punia. 

The accomplishments and the stellar achievement of India's sports heroes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been nothing but inspirational, despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 lockdown in 2020-2021. Not only has each one of them made the country proud but has also ignited hope and aspiration that our country can create many more Olympic champions in the future. 

BYJU'S founder and CEO Byju Raveendran said- “Sports has a critical role to play in nation building and it’s time that we celebrate our olympic heroes, not just once in four years, but every single day.  They deserve all the adoration they get, and after this historic achievement at Tokyo 2020 we are rewarding the players for their efforts, sacrifices and achievements.”

He added, “We hope that this small gesture will help them in their journey going forward to win more laurels for the country and also encourage many more youngsters to dream big. India has a huge potential to produce many more sporting champions and it is important to celebrate successes like this and make them heroes so that we transform ourselves from a Sport loving nation to a sport playing nation.”