BHOPAL: An 18-year-old farm boy from Madhya Pradesh cornered glory by galloping to an equestrian gold in Paris. Raju Singh Bhadoria, a farmer’s son from MP’s Bhind, won the eventing cross-country one-star class in Grosbois.
Riding the horse Louk, the class 12 student clinched gold with a penalty of 23. French riders Frederic Gremont and Alexia Russel Sauque took the other two spots on the podium with penalties of 28 and 29.