Prakash Padukone set to trip to Paris Olympics as badminton squad mentor

Mythical Prakash Padukone is about to trip as a mentor along side the 15-member Indian badminton squad for the Paris Olympics, starting on July 26.

Padukone, the primary Indian to win the All England Championship, retired in 1991 at the same time as badminton was once presented within the Olympics on the 1992 Barcelona Video games.

Whilst Lakshya Sen is a manufactured from the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA), Sindhu had introduced Padukone as her mentor forward of the Paris Video games after transferring her base to Bengaluru from Hyderabad. She is getting ready for her 3rd Olympics.

“There are seven gamers and 8 beef up workforce, together with the coaches and physios,” a supply within the know of items informed PTI.

“Pullela Gopichand, RMV Gurusaidutt, Agus Santosa, Vimal Kumar, and Mathias Boe would be the coaches travelling to Paris, whilst Prakash Padukone will move as a mentor. Zeinia Samar and Kiran Challagundla would be the two physiotherapists within the staff.”

Whilst Gopichand is India’s nationwide leader trainer, Gurusaidutt has been coaching HS Prannoy and Boe is the trainer of guys’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and ladies’s doubles mixture of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto.

Former India trainer Vimal Kumar is lately coaching Lakshya, whilst Agus has been coaching Sindhu in Bengaluru.

Kiran has been a long-time physio of the Indian badminton staff however Zeinia has joined Sindhu’s camp after her resolution to transport to Bengaluru in pursuit of an remarkable 3rd consecutive Olympic medal.

Within the closing Olympics, India leader trainer Gopichand had determined to not trip to Tokyo because of the cap at the collection of officers accompanying athletes within the gentle of COVID-19 scenario in 2021.

At Paris, the Indian shuttlers will probably be aiming to proceed their medal hunt following the silver and two bronze that the rustic gained unfold during the last 3 editions.

The badminton occasions at Paris will start on July 27 and can run until August 5.