 Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 13: Shivani Charak, an ace sport climber of J&K, left today for Bangkok to represent India in the Asian Cup (Bouldering & Speed) to be held at Bangkok in Thailand from 15th June to 17th June, 2018.
Shivani is among the seven sport climbers including two girls selected by Indian Mountaineering Foundation, New Delhi for this prestigious international competition. The other Indian climbers are Adarsh Singh, Abhishek Mehta of Delhi, Shiv Preet Pannu and Sangram Singh of Punjab, Pema Thendup Bhutia of Services and Vicky Bhalerao of Maharashtra. Sushma Malik, a sport climbing judge, accompanied the team as a manager.
The competition is being organized by the Sport Climbing Association of Thailand under the aegis of Asian Continental Council, has the approval of International Federation of Sport Climbing, the apex body for sport climbing in the world.
It is worth mentioning here that Shivani Charak who was deputed for training to 3 European countries Switzerland, Italy and Slovenia before her participation in the World cup in Sport Climbing at Navi Mumbai in June, 2017, has also been selected in the Indian Sport Climbing Team for participation in the 18th Asian Games to be held at Jakarta-Palembang (Indonesia) from 18th August to 2nd September, 2018.
In fact, Shivani has the unique distinction of being only the 2nd civilian sports person from J&K during the last 70 years to be selected for participation in the Asian Games. |
