Secretary of district taekwondo association Dehradun, Shashikant Sharma said on Monday that a 27- member team from Dehradun district has participated in the Black Belt test held in Ranikhet. Rahul Thapa, Samad Shah, Shibani Bisht, Tripti Rawat, Khushi Chauhan, Shubham Prasad, Vinay, Ravi, Prabhat Chamoli, Uditi Ghadi, Tirthika Ghadi, Divyansh Srivastava, Mangalya, Sanyam sharma, Mithilesh Ram, Ambica Goel, Shikha Bisht, Ashu Rana, Satyam kumar and Navjeet Singh were declared qualified for the Ist Dan Black Belt.
Shubham Gaur, Ashit Thakur, Abhishek Joshi, Deepak Sharma, Vijay Prasad Pramod and Bhim Singh were declared qualified for 2nd Dan Black Belt. This aside, a national referee seminar for the fresher Black Belts and also refresher course for the veteran national referees was also organised for three days starting from August 5 in Ranikhet.
International referee AT Rajeev was the main examiner. After three days’ hard work, Ashu Rana, Ashit Thakur, Deepak Sharma, Vijay Prasad, Bhim Singh, Abhishek Joshi, Pramod, Khushi Chauhan, Shikha Bisht and Ambica Goel were declared qualified as national referees. Besides, Shubham Gaur attended the refresher course and was declared qualified.
Sharma further said that this batch of the referees would surely help overcome the shortage of the referees in the district as well as across the State.
“Our junior team performed well, but it was unable to make place in the state team. The team secured two silver and six bronzes in the junior state championship,” he said.
He also said that the dates of the district level tournament will be announced soon to select the participants for the forthcoming sub-junior, cadet and senior State championships.