Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Samba District Sport Climbing Competition was organized today at Tenzing Norgay Sport Climbing Wall in Sprawling Buds School complex, here by Ibex Adventure Club, Samba under the aegis of Mountaineering Association of J&K. Since there was no female participant, the competition held only in Boys categories of Mini, Sub Junior and Junior only. In absence of any serious challenge from other schools which were mostly participating for the first time, BBN High School, Vijaypur which has been regularly participating in district and state competitions, swept all the medals. The Results : Mini Boys: Rydham Verma, Ist; Ashish Jangral, 2nd and Jatin Thapa, 3rd. Sub Junior Boys: Siddharth Singh, Ist; Abhi Verma, 2nd and Ansh Verma, 3rd. Junior Boys: Rohit Verma, Ist; Rayzali, 2nd and Mohinder, 3rd. Everester Ram Singh Slathia, the chief guest of the day, remained present throughout the competition and exhorted the budding climbers to put in their best efforts. However, he had to leave for some urgent job just before the prize distribution ceremony and in his absence Ram Khajuria, general secretary of Mountaineering Association of J&K honoured the winners and officials. Manik Slathia, a trained and upcoming mountaineer of the state was the organizing secretary of the competition who was well supported by technical officials of Mountaineering Association including Sakshi Magotra, Shashi Kant, Mrityunjay Sharma and Satish Bhan. |