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A scintillating twelvemonth with the bat saw Smriti Mandhana powerfulness India to a maiden Women’s ODI World Cup crown, portion Deepti Sharma’s allround heroics earned her the Player of the Tournament honour successful India’s triumph astatine home.
Boxer Jaismine Lamboria clinched her maiden World Championship portion Divya Deshmukh not lone became the archetypal Indian to triumph the FIDE Chess World Cup, thereby booking a spot successful the Candidates tourney but besides ticked disconnected a large milestone by earning the Grandmaster title
Making waves
Seventeen-year aged Anahat Singh, who continues to marque waves successful the planetary squash circuit, contributed to India’s World Cup triumph. She besides won her 3rd consecutive National title.
All these trailblazers are nominated for the coveted Sportstar of the Year (Female) honour successful the eighth variation of the Sportstar Aces Awards.
Vote for your favourite prima by scanning the QR codification beneath until February 28.
Additionally, determination are 19 Jury Awards which volition beryllium deliberated connected by an elite sheet headed by legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.
Olympic golden medallist Abhinav Bindra, erstwhile India hockey skipper M.M. Somaya, chess large Viswanathan Anand, and Olympians Anjali Bhagwat and Aparna Popat implicit the jury.
There volition besides beryllium a abstracted Chairperson’s Award for Sports for Social Good, which volition honour individuals oregon organisations that person utilized the powerfulness of sports to marque our satellite a amended place.
