National Sports Day 2021: Indore’s 20-year-old equestrian Paridhi Joshi brings home Vikram Award and the only one to the city in 2021
National Sports Day Today
Indore’s 20-year-old equestrian Paridhi Joshi brings home Vikram Award and the only one to the city this year. Vikram award is announced for sport-persons who have remarkable achievements in individual games (games played in Olympics, Asian Games and National Games).
The feather in her cap brings glory and reinforces Indore’s talent pool of equestrians.
Last year, an equestrian from Indore Sudipti Hajela received Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2020.
Sharing her lessons and journey, Paridhi said, “The most essential lesson for every equestrian is to understand and accept that there may be instances when your horse will kick off and you might trip hurting yourself.”
She added that horses, like humans, can have mood swings and we must be willing to understand that. “I have often fallen from my horse and it can be severe too,” Paridhi said.
She fell off her horse in Youth Olympic qualification round in 2018, wherein her ligaments broke. “About six doctors suggested knee replacement surgery, but thanks to an orthopaedic who helped me recover using physiotherapy,” Paridhi said.
She cited how the horse’s troubles could also be a reason for the fall.
“The horse (Nashpleasure) was imported to India from France and the previous owner had cheated him, as we heard,” Paridhi said. Whenever she would mount on him, the horse would sweat a lot and it would stay tensed.
“Nashpleasure was tensed and even though, I tried to calm him down, it didn’t work and the rest is history,” Paridhi said.
Beginning of her journey
“I started riding at age 10 after we moved from Kuwait to India,” Paridhi said. She was motivated to learn horse riding because of her love for animals.
“I started with horse riding, played other sports including lawn tennis, kho kho, basketball and skating, but nothing appealed to me as much as horses,” Paridhi said.
Her achievements
“I have participated in national events senior and junior since 2013,” Paridhi said. She has won 84 medals in national championships since then.
“I have represented India in international too since 2016,” Paridhi said. She represented India in CSIJ-B in Hong Kong in 2018.
“I have qualified to represent India in under 21 Asian Championship 2019, which has been postponed and hopefully, will be scheduled once covid comes under control,” Paridhi said.
Indore’s 20-year-old equestrian Paridhi Joshi brings home Vikram Award and the only one to the city this year. Vikram award is announced for sport-persons who have remarkable achievements in individual games (games played in Olympics, Asian Games and National Games).
The feather in her cap brings glory and reinforces Indore’s talent pool of equestrians.
Last year, an equestrian from Indore Sudipti Hajela received Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2020.
Sharing her lessons and journey, Paridhi said, “The most essential lesson for every equestrian is to understand and accept that there may be instances when your horse will kick off and you might trip hurting yourself.”
She added that horses, like humans, can have mood swings and we must be willing to understand that. “I have often fallen from my horse and it can be severe too,” Paridhi said.
She fell off her horse in Youth Olympic qualification round in 2018, wherein her ligaments broke. “About six doctors suggested knee replacement surgery, but thanks to an orthopaedic who helped me recover using physiotherapy,” Paridhi said.
She cited how the horse’s troubles could also be a reason for the fall.
“The horse (Nashpleasure) was imported to India from France and the previous owner had cheated him, as we heard,” Paridhi said. Whenever she would mount on him, the horse would sweat a lot and it would stay tensed.
“Nashpleasure was tensed and even though, I tried to calm him down, it didn’t work and the rest is history,” Paridhi said.
Beginning of her journey
“I started riding at age 10 after we moved from Kuwait to India,” Paridhi said. She was motivated to learn horse riding because of her love for animals.
“I started with horse riding, played other sports including lawn tennis, kho kho, basketball and skating, but nothing appealed to me as much as horses,” Paridhi said.
Her achievements
“I have participated in national events senior and junior since 2013,” Paridhi said. She has won 84 medals in national championships since then.
“I have represented India in international too since 2016,” Paridhi said. She represented India in CSIJ-B in Hong Kong in 2018.
“I have qualified to represent India in under 21 Asian Championship 2019, which has been postponed and hopefully, will be scheduled once covid comes under control,” Paridhi said.