HIGHLIGHTS

• PV Sindhu returned to India with the Olympic bronze medal from Tokyo 2020
• Sindhu is the only Indian woman to win two Olympic medals
• Sindhu’s badminton bronze was India’s second medal at Tokyo 2020 after Mirabai Chanu’s silver

Telangana Sports Minister V Srinivas Goud along with Cyberabad CP VC Sajjanar felicitated Olympic bronze medallist PV Sindhu after she landed at the Hyderabad airport on Wednesday afternoon.

Amid cheers and claps, two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu and her Korean coach Park Tae-sang reached Hyderabad, the hometown of the Tokyo 2020 bronze medal winner.

Sindhu finished third in women’s singles badminton at the Tokyo Olympics after beating China’s He Bing Jiao in straight games in the bronze medal play-off match in Tokyo.

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At the airport, while employees, passengers and the CISF cheered for Sindhu, she and the coach were felicitated by Telangana Sports Minister V Srinivas Goud, Sports Authority of Telangana (SATS) chairman A. Venkateshwar Reddy along with Commissioner Of Police, Cyberabad VC Sajjanar and other officials.

Sindhu made history in Tokyo as she became the only Indian woman to win two Olympic medals. She was the second middle winner at this Olympiad for India after weightlifter Mirabai Chanu

Sindhu was training under Korean coach Park Tae-sang at Suchitra academy in Hyderabad and students of the academy too celebrated her success at the airport.

Sindhu had first landed in Delhi from Tokyo and got a similar reception at the airport after which she went to Sports Minister Anurag Thakur’s house for a felicitation ceremony.

Speaking exclusively to India Today after her final match at the Tokyo Games, Sindhu had said that this bronze was tougher to clinch than her silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

“I have no words because it’s definitely a proud moment for me and also for the country and getting a medal at the Olympics for 2nd time is I am at the top of the world,” Sindhu said in an exclusive interview to India Today