Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 30: The 27 member J&K UT Taekwondo team, including 16 boys and 11 girls, brought laurels to Union Territory at 21st National ITF Taekwondo Championship held in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, from December 27 to 29. The team finished as runner-up, securing 29 gold medals, narrowly behind Gujarat, which won the team title with 30 golds.
In Sparring, gold medal winners included Achyotam Dixit, Shravan Nilesh Wani, Pavishan GP, Aabid Hussain, Lovjeet Choudhary, Saatvik Kumar, Keshav Kumar, Harsh Spolia, Vansh Rathore, GR Tara Sri, Samreen Fatima, K Yoshita, Manvi Singh, Trisha Rani, Ashel Sharma, Lovleen Kour Babber, Aadhaya Gupta, Haseeb Imtiyaz, Ayan Parihar, Veer Aditya Badyal, Raju Parihar and Geetansh Thakur. Silver medalists were Sharanveer Singh, Ahmed Ayoub, Kavya Kumari, Himadri Singh Rana and Ishan Parihar.
In Tuls, gold medals went to Ashel Sharma, Himadri Singh Rana, Keshav Kumar, Veer Aditya Badyal, Vansh Rathore, Raju Parihar and Geetansh Thakur, while Harsh Spolia won silver. Bronze went to Aadhaya Gupta and Haseeb Imtiyaz. In Group Tuls, silver medals were won by junior girls Manvi Singh, Ashel Sharma, Lovleen Kour; senior girls Himadri Singh Rana, Samreen Fatima, Aadhaya Gupta; junior boys Keshav Kumar, Harsh Spolia, Lovjeet Choudhary; and black belts Geetansh Thakur, Raju Parihar and Vansh Rathore.
Five new black belts were awarded and Pawan Singh Jamwal and Sachin Kumar Thakur were promoted to 3rd DAN, while Chaitanya Jasrotia, Ashwani Thakur, Ankit Kumar, Sudhir Rathore and Haseeb Imtiyaz earned black belts. The team, led by Mukesh Thakur, Pawan Singh Jamwal, and Coaches Sachin Kumar Thakur and Namika Mahajan, excelled across individual sparring, patterns, group patterns and demonstrations, highlighting J&K’s rising Taekwondo talent.
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