Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 14: International Taekwondo player, coach and son of the soil from Jammu, Atul Pangotra has been invited as an International Referee (only from India) for US Open Tekwondo Championship 2018, which will be held from January 28 to Febraury 2, 2018 at Las Vegas, Naveda in USA.
Atul has the distinction of being State Awardee and Sher-i-Kashmir Awardee for his outstanding contribution as player and coach.
He won gold medal in the recently held National Taekwondo Championship in Jammu, besides having the honour of winning silver medal in Commonwealth Taekwondo Championship, silver in World Taekwondo Hanmadang International Championship in Pokhara, Nepal and gold in England Open International Taekwondo Championship at Manchester, England and gold in Raw Taekwondo International Championship held at Glasgow, Scotland.
Atul is also Referee Chairman Taekwondo Federation of India and the first NIS coach in Taekwondo from Jammu and Kashmir.
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