Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 27: The 1st IMF National Sport Climbing Competition for Visually Challenged Climbers was declared open today jointly by former MLA Ashwani Sharma and Chairman of Indian Mountaineering Foundation, S. Bhattacharjee in the presence President Dogri Sanstha, Prof Lalit Magotra and Divisional Sports Officer, J&K State Sports Council, Ravi Singh at Sprawling Buds ICSE School, here today.
Rahul Sharma, Chairman and Ramesh Khajuria, Director of Sprawling Buds ICSE School, Jammu where the Competition is being hosted were also present on the occasion along with Principal of Apple Kids, Bantalab, Jammu, Arti Sharma.
While addressing the gathering, the chief guest congratulated the Mountaineering Association for organizing the first ever National Competition for Visually Challenged Climbers. He lauded the role of Mountaineering Association of J&K in promoting sport climbing in the state despite infrastructure constraints and producing national and international climbers like Shivani Charak and Mrityunjay Sharma who have represented the country in the World Cup Sport Climbing Competition-2017. He assured all possible help and cooperation for further promotion of the game in J&K. He also congratulated the climbers for the inclusion of Sport climbing in the next Asian Games at Indonesia and Olympic Games at Tokyo in 2020 and hoped that two ace climbers of the state would find a place in the national team for the Asian as well as Tokyo Olympics.
Earlier, while welcoming the participants Ram Khajuria, General Secretary of Mountai-neering Association of J&K disclosed that because of financial constraints and the resultant uncertainty of the conduct of the competition at Jammu only 70-80 climbers from 6 states of the country are participating in this competition. The competitions will be held tomorrow.
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