The Bhopal District Roller Skating Association bagged 22 medals including 10 gold and seven silver medals in the CBSE west zone roller skater competition held at Fatehpur Shekhawati in Sikar district of Rajasthan from October 20 to 23.
The skaters who secured gold and silver medals in the competition would participate in the national competition scheduled from December 6 to 9 at Moolji Mehta International School, Virar (Mumbai).
The skaters from the city exhibited outstanding performance at the competition. Besides, players from Madhya Pradesh, skaters from Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa also participated in the competition held in Rajasthan. The participants who have been qualified to play in the nationals would go to Mumbai to show their best skills in skating.
Notably as many as 1,200 students from across six States of the country participated in the championship.
The students from the city who have bagged medals include Komal Deep Kaur (two gold), Shikha Nair (two gold), Divyansh Kumar (two gold), Rudransh Dubey (two gold), Rishabh Nema (one gold), Amrit Pal Singh Sekho (two gold). Moreover, the silver medalists would also play in the nationals that include Bharat Anand who bagged two silver medals, Anshit Bhatnagar two silver medals, Saveri Dutta, (one silver along with a bronze medal), Ekansh Yadav (one silver medal) and (Tanmay Sinha one silver medal).
Those who bagged bronze medals are- Rashi Kurup, Pushpendra Suryawanshi, Ujjawal Verma and Meenakshi Rajput. All the winners are taking special training under the former national skating champion and coach Sanjay Mishra and Assistant coach Dharmesh Mishra at Campion School Skating Ring. The nationals would be held from December 6 to December 9.