Winner of Open class group India pose throughout a victory ceremony on the forty fifth Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Sept 22, 2024.
| Picture Credit score: Denes Erdos
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (September 23, 2024) hailed the lads’s and ladies’s Chess groups for successful the gold medals on the Chess Olympiad, saying the outstanding achievement marks a brand new chapter in India’s sports activities trajectory.
India on Sunday scripted historical past within the Chess Olympiad as its males’s and ladies’s groups clinched their maiden titles in a uncommon clear sweep of gold medals after beating their respective opponents within the closing spherical in Budapest.
“Historic win for India as our chess contingent wins the forty fifth #FIDE Chess Olympiad! India has gained the Gold in each open and ladies’s class at Chess Olympiad!” Mr. Modi stated on X.
“Congratulations to our unbelievable Males’s and Girls’s Chess Groups. This outstanding achievement marks a brand new chapter in India’s sports activities trajectory. Might this success encourage generations of chess fans to excel within the sport,” the prime minister stated.
The Indian males’s group defeated Slovenia 3.5-0.5 whereas their ladies counterparts additionally crushed Azerbaijan with an an identical margin within the eleventh and closing spherical within the forty fifth version of the Chess Olympiad that concluded in Budapest.
Solely China and erstwhile Soviet Union had gained each males’s and ladies’s gold medals in the identical version of the Chess Olympiad.
Indian males had earlier gained two bronze medals — in 2014 and 2022 — within the event, whereas the ladies had bagged a bronze within the 2022 version held in Chennai.
Revealed – September 23, 2024 08:04 am IST
