Two players of the Madhya Pradesh State Boxing Academy have brought laurels for the State by winning two gold medals in the 62nd National School Boxing Competition at Warangal, Telangana.
Academy’s player Divya Panwar has won a gold medal in 46 kg weight category. Panwar has defeated Haryana in semi-final and Andhra Pradesh in the final match. Similarly, Shruti Yadav has also bagged a gold medal in the 70 kg weight category.
Yadav has defeated Maharashtra in semi-final and Punjab in the final match. As many as 6 players of the boxing academy took part in the National Competition at Telangana
Notably, Divya and Shruti had also bagged the gold medals in the 62nd State level School Boxing Competition. As many as 34 Players of the Madhya Pradesh State Boxing Academy had won medals during the 62nd State level School Boxing Competition held at Gwalior.
The gold medalist players have met the Minister of State for Sports, Yashodhara Raje Scindia and talked about their achievement to the Minister on Monday at the TT Nagar Stadium.
Scindia expressed her happiness regarding the achievement of the players and she has extended her greetings to the players. The gold medalist players are being trained by the boxing coach Roshanlal.
Meanwhile, players practiced the double trap event on Monday during the fourth day of the ongoing 26th All India GV Mavalankar Shooting Championship at MP State Shooting Academy. As many as 72 players participated during the official practice. The first and the second round of the double trap event will be played on Tuesday.