Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: To encourage sport climbers and to give boost to sport climbing in J&K Tawi Trekkers J&K, the premier adventure sports organization of J&K will award cash prizes to the State climbers who bring laurels to the state by winning medals in the forthcoming National Sport Climbing Championship scheduled to be held at Bangalore from October 28 to October 31, 2013.
The gold medal winner will be honoured with a cash prize of Rs.10000 while silver and bronze medalists will be awarded cash prizes of Rs 7000 and Rs 5000 respectively. Those who enter the final round of the competition will also be presented Rs 2000 each.
This was announced by the general secretary of Tawi Trekkers J&K Ram Khajuria while felicitating the medal winners of the recently concluded North Zone Sport Climbing Championship.
Earlier, Shilpa Charak of Shining Star Academy, Muthi and Kumari Bindia Sharma of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Udhampur who won a silver medal and two bronze medals respectively in the North Zone Sport Climbing Championship held at Delhi were felicitated by members of Tawi Trekkers J&K in an impressive function held in the office of the club.
Shawetica Khajuria, a senior member of the club, who is also a member of Indian Mountaineering Foundation North Zone Committee and a National Judge of Sport Climbing, who was the Manager of the State team , disclosed that the new look J&K team missed a couple of medals because of inexperience and lack of exposure to the big event. However, Shivani Charak, Aman Dogra and Mrityunjay Sharma performed well to reach the finals in their respective categories.
The members wished Shilpa and Bindia a grand success in the forthcoming National Championship. A memento and a gift hamper were also presented to the illustrious climbers.
Prominent among others present on the occasion included President of the club Sumant Singh Jamwal, senior members Amit Khajuria, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Khajuria, Arti Sharma and Mrigank Kaushal; Vice President Mountaineering Association of J&K Yogeshwar Kumar and Secretary Snow Trail Mountaineers Navneet Gupta.
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