North Zone Sport Climbing C’ship on Mar 26-27

Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: 4th Junior North Zone Sport Climbing Championship for boys and girls which had been postponed earlier will now be conducted by Mountaineering Association of J&K  on March 26 and 27 at Sprawling Buds School, Chinore, here.
About 200 climbers from Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand besides the host J&K are expected to participate in the 2-day Championship.
Climber born in 2000, 2001 and 2002 are eligible to compete in the competitions which will be conducted both in Lead and Speed Climbing.
However, to give exposure to budding climbers of the State the organizers have now also included the Sub Junior category, both for boys and girls (born in 2003, 2004 and after), for lead climbing only. The Competitions will be conducted strictly as per IFSC rules and only fresh international standard climbing equipment shall be used.
The Championship carries a total prize money of Rs.40, 000 which will be distributed equally between boys and girls.
Almost all the prominent North Zone climbers including national medalists are likely to participate in the competition and a keen tussle is on the cards in all the categories.
The J&K challenge will be spearheaded by Shivani Charak and Aman Dogra, both national speed climbing champions, and the team with very talented climbers including Shilpa Charak, Mrityunjay Sharma, Ajay Deep and Nitya Sharma is likely to give a creditable performance.
Mitra Ghosh, a national Judge in Sport Climbing will be the president of Jury , which includes other judges namely Amit Sharma from Delhi and Shawetica Khajuria from J&K, both National Judges.
Paras Verma, a national Route Setter will head the team of experienced route Setters and Ganesh Singh, a national belayer shall be the Chief Belayer of the competition.
The Chairman IMF North Zone Committee, S Bhattacharjee has also confirmed his availability during the Competition.
The Championship is being organized by Mountaineering Association of J&K under the aegis of Indian Mountaineering Foundation North Zone Committee and sponsored by J&K State Sports Council.

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