After successfully hosting several national and international hockey and other indigenous sporting events, Odisha is now going to host the first Physical National Yogasana Sports Championships 2021-22. Organised by the National Yogasana Sports Federation (NYSF) in association with the Odisha Government, the championships will be held in Bhubaneswar from November 11 to 13. Over 500 bright and young yogasana sports athletes from across 30 States will participate in this path breaking event.
In its endeavour to create a global brand of yogasana as a competitive sport with high standards and benchmarks and supporting India’s vision to make yogasana a sport with an Olympic roadmap, the NYSF, recognised by the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, is consistently building a strong culture of fitness, competition, wellbeing, and growth through the practice and development of yogasana.
State Sports Minister Tusharkanti Behera said yoga has become increasingly popular in recent years and is one of the most popular and trending forms of exercise in the world.
This is the time for India to take yogasana as a competitive sport on the global sports stage. He said, “We are confident that India’s first Physical National Yogasana Championships in Bhubaneswar will be a step forward in producing the next generation of world-class yogasana athletes and talents.”
Yogasana sport for both male and female categories has been included in the Khelo India Youth Games, 2021. NYSF President Udit Sheth said, “We are grateful to the unrelenting support of the Government of Odisha towards taking sport and yogasana forward.With this first championship on-ground, we are all poised to create great coaches, curriculum and electronic scoring systems to benefit our sport in India and globally.”
Formed in December 2020, the NYSF has significantly and rapidly gained momentum and successfully launched the first National Yogasana Championships in a short span of three months.