Prasanta Badamundi, a weightlifter of the Khel Vikas Kankia Academy here, has won bronze medal at the PYKKA All-India Rural National Weightlifting competition being held in Ranchi and Jharkhand. The five-day competition will conclude on Friday.
Prasanta was competing in the 50kg category against 14 boys from various States in the country and achieved third position to get the bronze.Badamundi, a student of the Gram Vikas Kankia Residential School here is undergoing training under the Khel Vikas project for the last one and half year.