Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 19: At the age of 14, Rachit Gupta broke the curse and became the first athlete from Jammu and Kashmir to excel in the equestrian sport.
After 41 years, the nation finally won a gold medal in an equestrian event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou in September of this year. J&K is also in the run to join the team in a few years, as fourteen-year-old Rachit Gupta has been making headlines for some time.
It is for the first time in the history of the J&K that an athlete has taken to the equestrian sport and broken the jinx. Recently Rachit Gupta qualified for Junior National Equestrian Championship-2023 which is slated to be held in Agram Riding and Polo Academy Bengaluru, Karnataka.
J&K Sports Council had recommended him for the trails in absence of the game specific association in the Union Territory. This was one of the measures taken to patronize young athletes excelling at various levels of competitions to prove their mettle at national and international level platforms
Rachit was appreciated by Sarmad Hafeez, Secretary, Youth Services and Sports (YSS) and advisor to Lieutenant Governor R.R Bhatnagar. Secretary J&K Sports Council said that the council had recommended his participation as a nominee of J&K in future national level competitions and shall lend all possible support to him to excel in the field of equestrian sports.
Rachit Gupta, who is a student at Mayo College, Ajmer has been very passionate about horse riding since a very young age and actively started pursuing it since eight-year-old when he joined the Mayo College, Ajmer. He had also participated in several horse-riding events and clinched many medals.
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