Excelsior Sports Correspondent
POONCH, Dec 24: Only three athletes, including a girl, have been selected for the zonal trials by the National Yuva Cooperative Society (NYCS) during day-long selection process for GAIL India Speedstar held atSports Stadium, Poonch, here today.
In the under-14 boys category in 200 meters Royal Deep Singh (27 sec) qualify the benchmark while in Under-17 Boys category in 100 meters Barkat Hussain (12.26 sec) and lone girl athlete, Usma Kousar (under-14, 100 meters under best timing, 14.98 seconds).
“In all, 1040 young athletes, including 251 girls, turned up for the trials held under the guidance of experts. The participating athletes were from district Poonch and Rajouri,” informed State Representative of NYCS J&K, Opinder Sharma.
In the prize distribution function of the day-long activity, Vice-Chairman Kissan Board J&K, Daljit Singh Chib was Chief Guest, who presented certificates to those selected athletes and encouraged other participants. He also appreciated the initiatives of NYCS for searching the talent for Olympics 2020 at groosroot levels. He was accompanied S.J.S. Johar SSP Poonch, Dr. Balram Saini, State Bureau Chief (J&K) Punjab Kesari Group, Sh. Munish Sharma, All Morchan Incharge BJP J&K and Sh. Prdeep Sharma, BJP leader from Poonch. The whole event at poonch held under the supervision of Dhanuj Sharma, District Representative Poonch and the athletes from Rajouri district also participated at Poonch under the supervision of District Representative of Rajouri Madhur Gupta.
Earlier, in the morning, Member Legislative Assembly (MLA), Poonch, Shah Mohd. Tantray inaugurated the event and accompined with CDR A S Pendarkar, 93 Bde, Mohd. Haroon Malik, DDC Poonch.
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