Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 23: The closing ceremony of the 16th District Badminton Championship was held today at Srinagar.
The Championship was organized by J&K Badminton Association, Srinagar in collaboration with J&K Police at Indoor Stadium, Srinagar.
The championship that started from September 11, saw participants competing for different categories of under 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, besides seniors/above-19 and veterans.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Ghani Mir was the chief guest on the occasion.
Speaking on the valedictory function, IGP, Kashmir complimented the participants for their contribution in making the event successful and said that sports inculcate discipline and this trait of discipline helps one to take very important decisions in life.
He said that it is not important to win but to fight well and compete whole heartedly.
Highlighting the contribution of J&K Police, the IGP further said that Police is committed to help J&K sportspersons excel not only at State and the National Level but also at International level.
The winners and the runners up of each category were awarded prizes by the IGP Kashmir, DIG CKR S A Mujtaba, SSP Srinagar SAH Bukhari and Manager Bakshi Stadium, Mushtaq Ahmad.
In Under-10 category, Aman Mir from DPS School and Madeela from Mallionson won the singles titles in boys and girls events respectively, while in Under-13 category, Aamil Isaaq of RP School and Noor Mughal of Kendriya Vidyalaya bagged the singles title while the pair of Aamil and Sohaib won the boys doubles. Farzana and Nirman from Scholars School won the girls doubles of the category.
In Under-15 category, Adam from RP School, Mansepai from Kendriya Vidyalaya won the singles title while the pairs of Adam and Aamil from RP School and Gulnaz and Aalia Khatoon from Scholars school won the doubles title.
In Under-17 category, Aadam of RP School and Sehar of DPS School clinched the singles title, while the pairs of Adam and Aamil of RP School and Sehav and Uzma of DPS School won the doubles title.
In Under-19 category, Owais Afzal and Sehar of DPS School won the singles title in boys and girls events respectively while the pairs of Owais and Khalid and Sehar and Ulfat bagged the doubles title.
In senior, above-19 category, Aasia defeated Ulfat in the finals and clinched the women singles, while Aadam Isaaq won the men’s singles.
The doubles title for the category was won by pair of Sehar and Aasia in women’s event and Sahil Nazir and Owais Shah won the men’s title. Mixed doubles title in this category was bagged by Nisar and Sehar.
In veteran category Sanjiv Arora bagged the title while the doubles title was won by Hakim Nasir and Sanjiv Arora.
Awards of appreciations were given to Sports Heads of different participating schools of the District Srinagar, besides special prizes were awarded to Hilal Ahmad, Incharge Sports Complex, Bakhshi Stadium and Shah Nawaz of Srinagar Police for their contribution in making the championship a big success.