District Jammu Bench Press C’ship concludes

Winners posing for photograph with trophies at Bishnah.
Winners posing for photograph with trophies at Bishnah.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 19: Two days Jammu District Bench Press Championship unequipped and equipped Sub Junior, Junior, Senior & Master (Men & Women), organized by Jammu District Power Lifting Association, concluded at Neelam Palace Bishnah, here today.
Davinder Chib (SHO Bishnah) was the chief guest on the occasion, while Sanjeev Singh, Balbir Kalgotra and Shalinder Chara were the special guests who distributed prize among the winner and runner up players.
Anshuman Sharma, Satyajeet Singh and Amita Devi won best lifter in senior unequipped & equipped while Surjeet Singh & Udayvir Singh clinched best lifter junior unequipped & equipped title and Vishal Sudan, Shabam Alam won best lifter trophy in sub Junior unequipped & equipped, Shalinder Charak & Rajesh Gupta won best lifter in Master I & II category.
Anshuman Sharma created new record by breaking previous record of 93 kg category by lifting 212.5 kg weight.
Ojasvi Kohli, Priya Devi, Sakshi Koul, Amita Devi, Mannat Gupta, Rashika Handa, Bharti Rajput Adeela Shafi, Anjali Gupta, Meenu Kalotra, Samreen Kour, Abida Khan, Ritu Singh, Monika Anand, Surbhi Bali, Anu Radha Ralli Tamana, Tannu Jamwal and Upsana Mahajan clinched gold medals in women category.
In mens category, the gold medals were grabbed by Sarabjeet, Varun Manhas, Vishal Sudan, Shubam Kalotra, Parath Manhas, Sawan Kumar, Ashish Saini, Ajay Kumar, Rahul Balgotra, Arun Verma, Satyajeet Singh, Jogeshwar Singh, Ashish Bali, Balbir Kalgotra, Abu Barkat Din, Haroon Chowdhary, Sethi Ram, Manu Khajuria Aman Saini, Surjit Singh,Uhayveer Singh, Pankaj Chib, Joginder, Vikas Sudan, Rajesh Gupta, Jaivinder Singh, Sameer Sharma, Vishal Chib, Shoy Gupta, Amandeep Bassan, Anshuman Sharma, Shalinder Charak, Shabab Alam Bhat, Akash Malhotra, Vikramdeep, Ajay Jogi, Vikram Sharma, Gourav Sharma, Akash Dutt, Amit Singh & Javaid Khan, whereas silver medals were clinched by Kanav Bhagat, Lakhan, Harsh Chetan Dogra, Rohan Singh, Raghu Kumar, Sahil Singh, Rohit Mandla Navjot Singh, Ujagar Singh, Tanuj Sharma, Rahul Kumar, Vasu Sanket, Rasam Thakyal, Vishawjeet Singh, Shiva Kumar, Ashu Kumar, Om Dutt, Adnan Choudhary, Jatin Sharma, Sher Singh, Robin Barna, Angdev Manhas, Krishna Bhagat, Rajat Manhas, Anurag Magotra, Harish Kumar, Summit Kumar, Amandev Singh, Abhiam Sharma, Mitul Sharma and Vinod Kumar.
The bronze medals were won by Nitin Sharma, Himanshu Dogra, Ashishek Lahori, Sunil Kumar, Manish Kumar, Tarun Jamwal, Daleer Singh, Abhinav Kumar, Amantak, Rahul Kumar, Deeraj Kumar, Nikhal Saroch, Avinash Singh, Atul Singh, Aman Saini, Rohit Kumar, Sourav, Raghav, Sahil Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Aditya Gupta, Omkar Singh and Anil Kumar.
The championship was organised by Ajay Sharma general secretary, Rahul Sawhney senior vice president along with other office bearers of the Association.