The 35th National Games will be held in the third week of February in Kerala in which Uttarakhand’s four-member archery team will also participate. This team has qualified for the National Games during the National Championship held in November last.
The four players are Pritam Rana, Mahendra Singh, Jaspal Singh and Sukhdev Singh and two officials are Ramesh Kumar (lansdowne) of Garhwal Rifles as coach and vice-chairman, Uttarakhand Archery Association Rajendra Singh Tomar as manager of the team. Negi further said that only men archery team in the Indian round had qualified for the National Games. Four other teams were edged out in course of the National Championship held in November last. Negi hoped that the qualified Uttarakhand Archery team in the Indian round will show their best in the forthcoming National Games and help the State being honoured thus.