J&K team wins 16 medals in 1st North Zone Karate C’ship

Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: J&K Karate team has won 3 Gold, 5 Silver and 8 Bronze medals in 1st North Zone Karate Championship held at Dehradun in Uttarakhand recently.
Mehreen Mehraj won Gold medal in above 20 kg (8 years girls), Pooja Sharma bags Gold medal in below 61 kg category (U-21 girls), Harman Johal secured Gold medal in above 20 kg (8 to 9 years boys), Poonam Salathia won Silver medal in below 68 kg (senior girls), Shazia Shahzad bags Silver medal in above 35 kg (11 years girls), Mohammad Umer won Silver medal in above 20 kg (8 years boys), Muskan Bashir bagged two Silver Medals in below 61 kg (Senior and U-21 girls), Aadhiraj Manhas bagged Bronze medal in above 20 kg (8 to 9 years boys), Priya Sharma won Bronze medal in below 50 kg (U-21 girls), Adhyan Gupta bags Bronze medal in above 25 kg (9 years boys), Divesh Singh bagged Bronze medal in above 25 kg (9 years boys), Noor-Ul-Haq clinched Bronze medal in above 20 kg (8 years boys), Pragal HS Vishal secured Bronze medal in above 40 kg (12 years boys), Azmat Bibi clinched Bronze medal in below 55 kg (senior girls) and Hamid Nawaz won Bronze medal in 30 kg (10 years boys).
The officials who accompany the team were Sourav Mehra, Charan Singh, Sahil Sambyal as coaches and Rajan Sharma as Referee from J&K.
650 selected players from North Zone India participates in the Championship.
The team was honoured in a function organized here, wherein Raj Kumar Prohit President State Mineral Board was the chief guest. Ambedkar Gupta General Secretary of Karate Association of India and other dignitaries of sports were also present on the occasion.

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