Srinagar
Amidst the ongoing success story of athletes in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK, comes the news about the success of the Indian Pencak Silat team from Malaysia where the players have bagged 7 bronze medals to take the team up the ranking of the world’s top Pencak Silat teams at 7th position.
The Indian team comprising 36 players both men and women, including eight from Jammu and Kashmir, has remained in the top ten at the World ranking by clinching seven bronze medals in the 19th World Championship Pencak Silat.
The International Pencak Silat held in Malaysia concluded on Tuesday. This sport is a mixed martial arts sport.
The players who bagged the medals for the country include Suraj Sharma (Delhi), Disha Reddy (Madhya Pradesh) Rahul Saini ( Rajasthan), Arti Kumari. (Bihar), Madhu Kumari (Himachal Pradesh), G. Shantilaxmi (Puducherry), and Aqsa Gulzar (J&K ).
The national Pencak Silat contingent comprising 42 members both men and women, coaches, and staff from across the country including 8 players and 3 coaches from UT of J&K was flagged-off by Manoj Sinha, the Lt. Governor Jammu and Kashmir, on the 24th of last month from Raj Bhawan Srinagar.
The national team had trained under a battery of coaches in a 21-day coaching camp in Srinagar.
Jammu and Kashmir especially figures in this success story of the Indian team as not only the players were trained together in Srinagar, the officials including Mohammed Iqbal and Irfan Aziz, coaches for the national team belonged to Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory. Even the team Manager Mufti Hamid Yasin hails from J&K.
The championship was inaugurated on 26th July by Governor of the Melika Province Data Mohammad Ali Rustum and in the closing ceremony the Prime minister of Malaysia Dato' Sri-Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob was the chief guest and he also gave away the awards to the winners.
Secretary YSS and Secretary Sports Council while congratulating the national team said, everyone, is excited about the performance of the national Pencak Silat team. The team has put up a good display and produced a great result in the event and maintained a rank among the top 10 in the world.
In the 18th edition of the World Pencak Silat Championship held in Singapore Indian Pencak Silat, teams secured 4 medals and stood at 10 positions in the event. In today's championship team has improved its rank by climbing to 7th rank in the championship.
Mohammad Iqbal, team coach expressed hope that we will do our best in the forthcoming Senior Asian Championship as well as World Beach Pencak Silat Championship 2022 which will be held in Cebu- Philipines later this year.
.webp "Union Home Minister Amit Shah")
.webp "Punjab Kings batter Ashutosh Sharma")
.jpg)
