Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 11: 3-member Sport Climbing team of Mountaineering Association of J&K brought laurels to the Union Territory of J&K by winning 6 medals including 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze in the 25th National Sport Climbing Championship which concluded at Kalinga Stadium, Bhuvneshwar in Odisha.
Shivani Charak, the Asian Youth Bronze medallist in Speed climbing, won 2 Gold medals in Speed Climbing and Bouldering and a Silver medal in Lead Climbing in the women’s category, while her younger brother Arun Deep Singh claimed 2 Silver medals in Bouldering and Lead Climbing in the boys category. Shivani’s other younger brother Ajay Deep Singh, however, had to contend with a Bronze medal in Bouldering.
The highlight of the championship was a pulsating final in Speed climbing in which Shivani defeated Sonali Pereira of South Zone who had earlier defeated the Asian Youth Speed climbing Champion Shivpreet in the semifinal.
In lead climbing final round Shivani and Prateeksha of South Zone climbed the same height and the result was determined on the basis of time taken to reach that point. Eventually Shivani lost the Gold medal to Prateeksha by a whisker.
In Lead climbing final also J&K was unlucky to lose a medal when Ajay Deep who had almost clinched a Gold medal committed a foul to lose a podium finish.
With 2 Gold and 1 Silver medal Shivani has repeated her brilliant performance of the 23rd National Championship when she had won the equal number of medals in the same events in the Junior Girls category.
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