Four students under the aegis of Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) have been selected for National Sports Climbing Championship being held at Salt lake Stadium Kolkata. The candidates were selected from the east zone on the basis of excellent performance in East Zone Climbing Championship held in November.
Their ranking in east zone climbing championship was as follows: Jyoti Kumari ( 13 years), RMS High School – 1st position sub Jr category girls, Vinita Kumari ( 12 years), loyola School – 2nd Position sub Jr Category Girls, Talim Ansari ( 13 years), DBMS lilliput School – 3rd Position sub Jr category boys and Amit Sharma ( 15 years) – 3rd Position Jr Category Boys.
In the nationals, they will be competing with participants all over India in lead and speed climbing category. From past three months, several youths from Jamshedpur have been extensive training for sports climbing on the TSAFs sport climbing wall at JRD Tata Sports complex under supervision of Hemant Gupta, Gopal and Umakanth.
“We are continuing our efforts to promote sports climbing in Jamshedpur and with the performance of these four youths, the culture for sports climbing will increase in future,” said Gupta.