Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 20: Fencers Vansh Raina and Harsh Dubey of J&K claimed Bronze medals in their respective events, taking J&K medal tally to 11, while fencers from Manipur continued their dominance, winning Gold medal in Girls Foil Individual and Sapam of Punjab clinched Gold in Boys Foil Individual and Kulraj of Chandigarh won Sabre Individual Gold in the ongoing 68th National School Games (NSG) in the discipline of Fencing being organised by the Directorate of Youth Services and Sports, J&K, under the auspices of School Games Federation of India (SGFI) at Gymnasium Hall University of Jammu ground here.
Out of a total of 11 medals, J&K won six in the recently held U-14 Boys and Girls Fencing Championship, with 2 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze medals and 5 medals in the ongoing U-17 Boys and Girls Fencing Championship with one Silver and 4 Bronze medals.
Earlier, in U-17 Boys Sabre Individual, Kulraj Panav Sharma of Chandigarh won Gold, Prakhar Singh of CBSE Welfare Sports Organisation bagged Silver, while Bronze medals were claimed by Vansh Raina of J&K and S Abitlin Shanu of Tamil Nadu.
In U-17 Boys Foil Individual, Sapam Heyday Kumar Singh of Punjab clinched gold, Kangabam Prithibir Singh of Manipur bagged Silver, while Sagar Singh of Chandigarh and Harsh Dubey of J&K claimed Bronze.
Takhellambam Mangaleibi of Manipur clinched Gold in U-17 Girls Foil Individual, while Prachi of DAV College Managing Committee bagged Silver and the Bronze medals in this event went to Navisha Bharadwaj of CBSE and Berishmira Rabha of Assam.
The medals were presented to the winners by Harvinder Kaur, Convener Ceremonies Committee and Ujjwal Gupta, Former International Fencer and Competition Manager.
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