Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: The Jammu & Kashmir Tug-of-War Association under the presidentship of Hardeep Singh Anand has selected teams to participate in the 9th Senior Men and Woman National Championships to be held at Sports Complex, Punjabi University, Patiala in Punjab on March 28 and 29.
The teams were selected by Shardeep Singh, president of the Association and Jodh Singh Isher, secretary.
Deep Karan Singh Anand, Deepjot Singh Anand, Director of Trans Asia Hotel Pvt.Ltd), S Jasbir Singh, joint secretary, under the supervision of J & K Sports Council screening committee members comprising of Shiv Kumar Sharma, Joint Secretary J&K Sports Council and Rajan Sharma, Divsional Sports Officer, Jammu at Green Field, Gandhi Nagar, here.
The selected players for the 9th Open Senior Men National under 640 weigh category included Riship Raina, Robin Singh, Aaqib Maqbool, Suhaail Ahmad, Kulyash Bali, Pardeep Singh, Umar Farooq, Gourav Sharma and Jaswinder Singh,
The selected players under weight category 560 KG(mix 4+4) included Sahil Singh Jamwal, Anil Manhas, Sourabh Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Ankee Bhagat, Laxmi Dogra, Reetu Dogra, Prabmeet Kour and Neena Devi.
Gorav Dubey and Gurwinder Kour will accompany the team as coaches and Saurab will be the manager.
Mr Anand distributed kits among the players before departure which were sponsored by M/s. Trans Asia Hotels Pvt. Ltd. Unit Hotel Asia Jammu Tawi, Jammu.