Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 25: J&K UT level equipped & unequipped Bench-press, Deadlift & Powerlifting Championship, organised by J&K Sports Powerlifting Association concluded with distribution of medals among the winners, here today.
Khyatiman Khajuria, SHO Kot Balwal was the chief guest of the event, while office bearers of the Association concerned including Iqbal Singh, Sahil Anand, Satvik, Hemant Abrol, Rajat Kerni, Narinder Singh and Hardeep Singh were also present.
In deadlift (men), Abhay Chata, Raj Kumar, Parveen Mehra, Harish Verma, Shubam Singh, Uttam Kumar, Ishit Khajuria, Sameer, Vishal Khajuria, Rohit Salotra, Rohit Kumar, Aasim, Harsh Verma, Adarsh, Anandid Sharma, Jatinder Pal Singh, Priyanshu, Rishav Sharma, Paramjeet, Vishal, Aryavardan, Arun Rajput, Munish Sharma, Varun, Gourav, Mushtaq Mohd, Amit, Mayur, Rahil, Akshay Kumar and Himanshu Negi won gold medals, whereas in women category gold medals went to Pooja Sharma, Arti Thakur, Manvi Sharma, Payal, Mehak, Rashmi, Isha Raina, Pooja, Priyanka, Swati, Urvashi and Saksham.
In deadlift (men), Amrit, Arpit, Chakshat, Sourav, Mridual, Mohd Atif, Anil Kumar, Neerlove, Vishal, Amrinder Singh, Varun, Parveen, Rohit and Amrinder secured silver medals, whereas Priyanka Tikkoo won silver medal in women category and Pankaj and Harsh Magotra secured bronze medals in same category.
In full-powerlifting (men), Bhanu Dev, Bhupinder, Ipul, Pranav Mahajan, Gulshan, Jaswinder, Arjun, Anmol Singh, Aryabhardan, Ajay Kumar, Gurnor Singh, Shivam Gupta, Sahil Pal, Satyam, Meharban Singh, Dhruv, Piyush, Shubnandan, Pranav, Vijay, Shubam, Rohit Thakur, Sajan Sharma, Aryan, Aasim, Puneet Singh, Vikrant, Utraksh, Shubam and Himanshu Negi secured gold medals, whereas Khushi, Shweta, Nahirika and Meenu Kalotra won gold medals in women category.
Piyush Sharma and Rahul Mattoo clinched Silver medals and Surya Pratap, Surjit Singh, Vikas and Jevan Preet bronze medals in full-powerlifting men category.
In bench-press (men), the gold medallist were Ipul Singh, Abhay, Sahil, Bunty, Aryan Manhas, Sandeep, Abhinav, Hemant Abrol, Akshit Sharma, Manu Singh, Shubam, Akhil, Nikhil, Pratham, Jatinder Pal Singh & Nitin, whereas in women category, the gold medals went to Mehak, Aporva Jamwal, Pooja Sharma, Urvashi, Priyanka & Swati Kour and silver medals were clinched by Sahil Khan, Uttam Kumar, Aman Singh and Manbir Singh in men category.
Shubam Manhas and Sahil Anand won powerman titles in bench-press junior & senior, while Shubam Manhas and Bhanu Dev Singh secured powerman titles in full-powerlifting junior & senior and Uttam Kumar and Harish Verma won powerman titles in deadlift junior and senior categories respectively, besides power woman titles went to Mehak Kour and Urvashi in deadlift junior and senior, while Priyanka Tikkoo and Aporva Jamwal won the powerwoman titles in Bench-press senior and junior respectively and Meenu Kalotra bagged the title of full-powerlifting junior.