The Lohardaga district team emerged overall champion in 65th 3-day State level athletic championship that concluded at Lalit Narayan Mishra Stadium here on Sunday.
About 600 athletes from across the district participated in the meet that was organized by Lohardaga District Athletic Association. The meet was organized in four categories. In Open to all men category Day Boarding, Lohardaga bagged the championship while in the women category St John’s Day Boarding Nawadanr became the champion. Nawatanr also bagged championship in Junior Boys’ category while in its girls’ category St Patric’s School Gumla won the title. In individual category Md Sadab of Giridihin Men’s, Anju Kumari of NACC Dhurwa, Tousif Ansari of Nawadanr and Divya Tripathi of NACC Dhurwa became the champions in their respective categories.
In the concluding ceremony chief guest former MP Dr Rameshwar Oraon, Rajya Sabha MP cum President of the Association Dheeraj Prasad Sahu, Ex Bihar MLC Praween Kumar Singh, local MLA Sukhdeo Bhagat, Organizing Secretary of the Association Sanjay Sahu, Durgesh Sahu, Sefali Sahu, Sukhair Bhagat, Ajay Prasad, Kishore Kumar Verma, Sajid Ahmed Changu, Nishith Jayswal and Alok Ray districted prizes to the winners and runners in various events those were conducted in three days.
The athletes from Lohardaga, Ranchi, Gumla, Simdega, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Palamu, Giridih, Chaibasa, Latehar, Mahuadar, Bhurkunda and some other parts of thestate participated in the meet. Chief Guest said that an athlete should take a lesson from both winning and losing situations. DP Sahu said that the meet gets all round support from the people and athletes of the State.