Sushil encourages students to take up sports

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Feb 02 2015 | 7:40 PM IST
Two-time Olympic medal winning grappler Sushil Kumar has urged the students to take up sports for their all-round development at the Annual Sports day function of the JL DAV Public School, Paschim Vihar here.
Sushil, who was the chief guest of the function, distributed prizes to the winners of the various sporting disciplines and encouraged the students to actively participate in sports.
Speaking on the occasion, Sushil heaped praises on the school for its all-around development programmes and also appreciated the subject of VedPath.
Sushil had won a bronze in Beijing Olympics in 2008 and then bettered his performance at the next Games in London in 2012 with a silver medal finish in Men's 66kg Freestyle wrestling event.
31-year-old star wrestler is now solely focussed on bagging another medal for the country in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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First Published: Feb 02 2015 | 7:40 PM IST

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