Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, May 5: Prince Thakur of National Academy High School, Udhampur bagged the first Gold medal in the Junior Boys category of the Udhampur & Reasi District Sport Climbing competitions which was organised at Sprawling Buds ICSE School, Bantalab, here today.
The Silver and Bronze medals were clinched by Mikhul Tripathi of National Academy High School, Udhampur and Jitenderjeet Singh of Aryan Oriental Convent Higher Secondary School, Udhampur.
Similarly, in the Junior Boys category of Reasi District there was a good competition among Tanvir Ahmad, Krish Singh and Pawan Singh of Amba Kids Home, Panthal, Katra in which Tanvir Ahmad emerged victorious. Krish Sharma and Pawan Singh clinched the Silver and Bronze medals.
The top three winners were (Reasi District) Mini Boys Minik Thakur, Binnia Been and Saneev Sharma. Mini Girls; Sehrish, Sanchi and Janvit. Sub Junior girls; Janvi Bhagat, Shehnaz Choudharyi and Gulnaz Akhter. Sub Junior Boys; Harivansh Sharma, Yug and Rihit Verma.
Competitions in the Mini Girls and Mini Boys categories of the Udhampur district were completely dominated by climbers of Aryan Oriental Convent who bagged all the medals in these categories. Whereas Kovia Rajput, Ishika Thakur and Aliya Ilahi secured the first three positions in the Mini girl’s categories, Mohd Adil, Divyansh Verma and Tanish were the winners in the Mini Boys categories.
However, in the Sub Junior Girls category Peehu Sharma, Sunaina Sharma and Ira Singh swept all medals. Almost similarly, in the Sub Junior Boys and Junior Girls categories of Udhampur District competition the first two positions in both the categories were secured by climbers of National Academy High School and the third positions were clinched by climbers of Aryan Oriental Convent. While Samaksh Sharma and Anurag Sharma of National Academy High School clinched the first and second position in the Sub unior Boys category. The third position was bagged by Saiman of Aryan Oriental Convent School.
In the junior Girls category the first three positions were bagged by Rupali Thakur, Khushi Sharma and Sanvi Sharma respectively. However, competitions in the Men and Women categories of both the districts could not be held for lack of adequate participation.
Earlier, the Championship in which about 112 climbers of Udhampur district and 68 of Reasi District participated was declared open by President of District Mountaineering Association, Udhampur Verinder Slathia, in the presence of Chairman of Sprawling Buds ICSE School Rahul Sharma who is also Patron of Tawi Trekkers J&K; Shawetica Khajuria, General Secretary and other dignitaries.
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