Captain Pushpendra Kumar Garg (born 22 November 1963) is an Indian sportsperson in

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. He was born in

Sasni Sasni is a town and a nagar panchayat in Hathras district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Demographics India census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a giv ...

Aligarh district Aligarh district is a district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. This district is a part of Aligarh Division. The districts which adjoin Aligarh are (clockwise from north) Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr, Sambhal, Badaun, Kasganj, Hathra ...

(Now it situated at

Hathras district Hathras district (previously called Mahamaya Nagar district) is a district of Uttar Pradesh state of India. The city of Hathras is the district headquarters. Hathras district is a part of Aligarh division. The district occupies an area of an ...

) of

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. He studied at

Sainik School The Sainik Schools are a system of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society under Ministry of Defence (MoD). They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the reg ...

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

, and the

National Defence Academy The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the joint defence service training institute of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three services i.e. the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force train together before they go on ...

, Khadakvasla before joining the

Indian Navy The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy. As a blue-water navy, it operates si ...

Career

He formed a team with

Homi Motivala Homi Dady Motivala (born 18 June 1958) is an Indian sportsperson in Yachting. He received the Arjuna award for best performance in yachting for the year 1993, the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award jointly with P. K. Garg for ''overall'' best ...

and won the bronze medal in the enterprise class at the 1990 and 1994 Asian Games held at Beijing and Hiroshima respectively. They were also the world champions in the same class in 1993. He won the Gold Medal at the 1993 Enterprise Class World Championship in Zimbabwe and Silver Medal in 1997 Enterprise Class World Championship in Goa, India. In 2021 he was appointed as the CEO of

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Awards

P. K. Garg received the Arjuna award for best performance in Yachting for the year 1990 and the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award jointly with Homi Motivala for ''overall'' best performance in sports for the year 1994–95 from the

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1963 births Living people People from Hathras district Indian male sailors (sport) Recipients of the Arjuna Award Recipients of the Khel Ratna Award Indian Navy officers Sainik School alumni Asian Games medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1986 Asian Games Sailors at the 1990 Asian Games Sailors at the 1994 Asian Games Sailors at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for India Sportspeople from Lucknow {{India-yachtracing-bio-stub