Pushpendra Kumar Garg

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Captain Pushpendra Kumar Garg (born 22 November 1963) is an Indian sportsperson in yachting.^[1] He formed a team with Homi Motivala and won the bronze medal in the enterprise class at the 1990 and 1994 Asian Games held at Beijing and Hiroshima respectively. They were also the world champions in the same class in 1993. P. K. Garg received the Arjuna award for best performance in Yachting for the year 1990 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award jointly with Homi Motivala for overall best performance in sports for the year 1994-95 from the Government of India. He was a Lt. Commander at that time. He is with the Indian Navy.

He was born in Sasni in Aligarh district (Now it situated at Hathras district) of Uttar Pradesh. He studied at Sainik School, Lucknow, and the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla before joining the Indian Navy.

References

↑ "COMMANDER PUSHPENDRA KUMAR GARG". INS Tarangini Commanding Officers. Indian Navy. Retrieved 28 October 2011.

External links

A write-up on Pushpendra Kumar Garg

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardees

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Name	Garg, Pushpendra Kumar
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Short description	Indian yacht racer
Date of birth	22 November 1963
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