Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 28: 17th Open State Fencing Championship concluded on Thursday organised by Jammu and Kashmir Amateur Fencing Association in collaboration with J&K State Sports Council and Directorate of Sports and Physical Education, University of Jammu.
Prof. Keshav Sharma, Dean Academic Affair, University of Jammu was the Chief Guest whereas Dr. Meenakshi Kilam, Registrar University of Jammu was the Guest of Honour and Haji Abdul Quoom, Chief Sports officer and RaviSingh, Divisional Sports Officer were present on the occasion. J&K State Sports council and Dr. Daud Iqbal Baba, Director Sports and physical education, University of Jammu was special guest. On the 3day state championship about 200 fencers from various districts of the State participated. M.J Sharma, IFS said that during the current year our fencers gave a commendable performance and bagged 9 Medals in National events and 1 medal at International event.
The special achievement was the Bronze medal bagged by Shreya Gupta and Gold Medal by Vishal Thapar at International event at U.K. Beside this our 5 fencers have been selected for World University Games to be held in Italy.
The Chief Guest appreciated the efforts made by the association in promoting the game of Fencing in the State and encouraging the players to give their best .Dr. Meenakshi Kilam applauded the achievements of the players and appreciated the Idea of conducting such kind of tournaments in the University of Kashmir. Members of J&K Amateur Fencing Association Vijay Sharma,Patron, Mohinder Sharma General Secratary, Falail Singh, Vice president and. M.M Sharma Treasurer of the Association, Chief Coach Chotu Lal Sharma, Rachna Jamwal Fencing Coach J&K State Sports Council and Bheesham Slathia Fencing coachUniversity of Jammu Fencing Academy were also present.
The technical committee for of the championship were Anthony Matoo, Ajay Khartol, Tony Mattoo, Abdul Qadir, Shivani Hans, Mokshi Sharma, Pritam Slathia and Shreys Chib. |
