2nd UT level Karate C’ship held

Medal winners posing for group photograph with chief guest and BJP leader Sat Sharma and others at Jammu.
Medal winners posing for group photograph with chief guest and BJP leader Sat Sharma and others at Jammu.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 22: Amateur Karate Do Association Jammu and Kashmir (AKAJK) organised J&K UT level Karate Championship-2021 in junior and senior categories at New Karate Hall MA Stadium, here today.
Players from different districts including Jammu, Rajouri, Kathua, Reasi, Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Bandipora, Baramulla, Kupwara, Udhampur, Kishtwar, Doda, Shopian and Samba participated in the tournament.
Adnan Fayaz (Budgam), Vipul Sharma (Udhampur), Monika Rani (Rajouri), Dua Mukhtar (Budgam), Tanjeela Nazir (Budgam) Sudixit Mansotra (Kathua) Shakir (Baramulla), Azmat Bibi (Rajouri), Pooja Sharma (Jammu), Sameena (Budgam), Nighat (Baramulla), Vikram Singh (Jammu), Sourav Mehra (Jammu), Priya Sharma (Jammu) and Arush Puri (Jammu) clinched Gold medals in different categories, whereas Silver medals were secured by Zahid Ahmed (Kupwara), Owais Wazir (Baramulla), Adnan (Budgam), Rita Thakur (Udhampur), Sobia Altaf (Srinagar), Sabha Ruksar (Rajouri), Sunil Kumar (Udhampur), Manik Sharma (Jammu), Sonali Sharma (Udhampur) and Adil (Jammu) besides Muheem (Kupwara), Neeraj Manhas (Udhampur), Manik (Rajouri), Vishesh Gupta (Rajouri), Rohit Sharma (Jammu), Danish (Budgam), Indu (Udhampur), Shivani Dutta (Samba), Meenakshi (Udhampur), Khalid Din (Srinagar), Raghav Mehra (Jammu), Vijender Jamwal (Udhampur) and Musroor Ahmed (Budgam) bagged Bronze medals in different categories.
Sat Sharma, former J&K BJP President was the chief guest while Shihan Ambedkar Gupta general secretary AKAJK, Dr Mridula Gupta, Nodal officer of COVID-19 sampling teams and Amit Sangra (III Dan Black Belt), Inspector J&K Police were the guests of honour.
Tarun Sharma vice president BJYM Jammu West, Press Media and Publicity secretary AKAJK and president Nat Manch was special guest on the occasion, whereas the tournament was conducted under the technical supervision of referees and judges of AKAJK.
The bouts were officiated by Anil Sharma, Rinku Sharma, Dr Gulam Mustafa Mir, Pooja Sharma, Deepa Sharma, Sahil Singh Langeh, Tajamul Ahmed Khan, Sunil Kumar, Ajaz Ahmed Parra, Rajan Jamwal, MK Saini, Meenakshi Raina, Indu Thakur, Sahil Singh, Vansh Sambyal, Neeraj Manhas and Moin Hameed.