Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 1: All J&K Taekwondo Association (AJKTA) team won 24 gold medals and remained on 3rd place in the 19th National ITF Taekwondo Championship 2023 held at Rourkela, Odisha.
The Championship was held from December 27 to 29, where 22 participants from all over J&K-UT, including 6 girls participated. The gold medal winners were Geetansh Thakur, Namika Mahajan, Simran, Aadhya Gupta, Himadri Rana, Hardik Gupta, Kartik Thakur, Pavneet Kaur, Haseeb Imtiyaz Shah, Veeraditya Badyal, Vasu Rathore, Aditya Sharma, Haziq Bin Abdul Hamid, Saiansh Bhat, Sparsh, Santushti and Vikram Singh.
The silver medal winners were Sachin Thakur, Ayush Mahajan, Sudhir Rathore and Bhavin Thakur while bronze medal winner was Shaurya Sharma. The J&K team claim overall 3rd place with 24 gold medals. The team was led by Mukesh Thakur, Chief Coach, Sachin Kumar, Assistant Coach and Bhavin Thakur, Team Manager.