The players of Madhya Pradesh Water Sports Academy exhibited an outstanding performance at Canoe Slalom World Cup-1. The players from Madhya Pradesh Water Sports Academy Prince Parmar and Champa Maurya secured fourth position at C-2 Event giving up an impressive performance.
Here on Wednesday, the players met Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia at TT Nagar stadium. While expressing her deep contentment over the success of the players, Yashodhara Raje Scindia said, “Daughters of state are bringing laurel to State, country and Academy continuously from International sports competitions.”
Elaborating further, she said, “We are proud of our players as they have put in great efforts and glorified the name of State at international platform.” She also wished them luck for their future endeavours and said that they should maintain their success in coming championships as well.
Notably, the Canoe Slalom World Cup-1 was organised at Czech Republic. The world cup-1 concluded on June 18. At the championship, the players from Madhya Pradesh Water Sports Academy were representing the team India.
Four players of Water Sports Academy took part in the World Cup including Vishwajeet Kushwaha and Dharmendra Verma. Moreover, players from around 50 countries including China, Japan, Uzbekistan and more participated in the World Cup-1.
It is to be noted that both the players received a professional training during a national camp organized at Maheshwar. Notably, to encourage the canoe slalom game and to let the players get a professional training, the first ever canoe slalom course has been started at Maheshwar. A 15 day national camp was also organised for the players to train them for world cup. German Coach Henrik Bitek and Indian coach Philip Mathew trained the players for the world cup.
Secretary Sports Sachin Sinha, Director Sports and Youth Welfare Upendra Jain, Chief Canoe Slalom Coach Piyush Bharoi and Coach Devendra Gupta were present on the occasion.