SFI announces Rs 5 lakh cash reward for Olympic-bound Sajan Prakash
Prakash qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday by breaching the ‘A’ standard time, clocking 1:56:38 seconds in the men’s 200m butterfly event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy.
“SFI president Shri R N Jayaprakash announced a personal cash award of Rs 5 lac to Sajan Prakash, who is the first Indian to achieve the Olympic ‘A’ qualification time in 200m butterfly event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome,” SFI said in a statement.
“Mr. Jayaprakash lauds the youngster’s achievement and has termed this as a watershed moment for Indian Swimming,” it added.
The Tokyo Games will be the Kerala swimmer’s second Olympics participation, having competed in Rio 2016 through a Universality quota.
A day after Prakash’s feat, Srihari Nataraj breached the elusive ‘A’ standard time by clocking 53.77s in the men’s 100m backstroke at the same event.
