Bringing laurels to the country, the Punjab Police DSP Avneet Kaur Sidhu has won four medals in shooting and AIG Ashish Kapoor won two medals in Tennis events during the World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) held from August 7 to 17 in los Angles, USA.
Bathinda-based Olympian and ace shooter Avneet Sidhu clinched one Gold, one Silver and two Bronze medals in different events of rifle shooting, whereas Kapoor has won gold by convincingly beaten his opponents in both singles and doubles titles.
WPFG are being held after every two years in which officers or officials from Police and Fire departments from all over the world compete in the different events. It is treated as mini Olympics for sportspersons from Police and Fire and more than 12,000 participants from the world had participated in the sports and fire-fighting events during this year.
Earlier, Arjuna Awardee Avneet Sidhu had won one gold and one silver medal in 18th Commonwealth Games-2006 held at Melbourne (Australia) and bronze medal in 15th Asian Games-2006 at Doha (Qatar).
Kapoor has made the country proud by winning medals for the consecutive 5th time since 2009 in these Games. In his debut in 2009 in WPFG games at Vancouver, he had won bronze medal in tennis singles. In New York games-2011, he got Silver whereas in Belfast, Ireland (2013) and Fairfax USA (2015) he clinched Gold medals.
Ashish is All India Police champion in Tennis singles events for the last 15 years and a top seeded in this event.