Haryana is leading the All India Police Wrestling Cluster Championship 2013 with 26 medals comprising 11 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze medals respectively. Punjab Police is on the second position with 38 medals including 11 gold, 7 silver and 20 bronze medals.
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) till Thursday, the second last day of this five day sports tournament remained on the third position wherein as about 47 medals including 7 gold, 19 silver and 21 bronze medals were bagged by this para-military force personnel. Overall 32 teams are contesting here. The hosting team, Jharkhand Police has been able to achieve only three silver medals.
Noted Boxer of the State Aruna Mishra, the only hope of this team has reached the finals. Talking to The Pioneer, she said, "Two months back I met the ADGP for some personal reason. He insisted me to participate here. Within these months I did the practice of two years." Border Security Force (BSF) players were lucky enough to bag the maximum medals today. They are in the fourth position with 22 medals involving 9 gold, 4 silver and 11 bronze medals.
Among the five games of this championship namely Judo, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Boxing and Gymnastics, the finals of the last game is scheduled at 1 pm on Friday. The state team is willing to grab atleast one medal in the gymnastics. The concluding ceremony beginning from 3pm will be attended by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar and ADGP Kamal Nath Choubey.
large numbers of school children were seen practicing for this closing ceremony on Thursday. The opening ceremony of this mega-sports event was cancelled on Monday due five day nationwide mourning on the death South Africa's Former President Nelson Mandela on December 6.