Chhattisgarh kickboxers bagged 27 medals, including two gold medals, at the National Senior and Sub-Junior Kickboxing championship jointly organised by World Association of Kickboxing Organisation (WAKO) India and Haryana Kickboxing Association at Faridabad recently.
As many as 1293 players of 27 teams from different States participated in the championship. Similarly, 51 players from different districts such as Raipur, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Raigarh and Korba represented Chhattisgarh in the championship. In senior category, Rajesh Kumar Tiwary won the Gold, Akash Gurudiwan, Pratik Singh Thakur, Shanu Mehraj, Neha Singh won the Silver medal and Vir Singh, Junaid Alam, Yogesh Mishra, Pravin Sharma, Rajesh Tiwari, Pratibha Rai, Madhu Masih, Bharti Sinha, Shruti Sahu, Vijay Kashyap, Shubham Choubey and Shanu Mehraj won the bronze medal.
Similarly, in the junior category, Aryan Pratap Singh grabbed gold while Janvi Dhruv won silver medal. Urmila Manjhwar, Arpita Kaushik, Khushi Gupta, Akshay Agrawal, Himanshu Nayak, Rikesh Nambiar and B N Chandragupt got bronze medal. In the doubles, pair of Rajesh Kumar Tiwari and Junaid Alam won Silver medal in the event. Akash Gurudiwan, Deepak Prasad, Bharat lal Sahu received national referee diploma certificate in the event.