Inter-school championships all set for a comeback after 2 years

Deepankar Sharda

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Chandigarh, July 6

After a gap of two years, the UT Education Department will organise inter-school championships for various events under different age groups starting this month from July 26.

The inter-school championships were held in 2019 and the championships for sessions 2019-20 and 2020-21 were not conducted in the recent past despite the MHA’s relaxation for hosting sports events, following Covid-appropriate behaviour, issued across the nation. This year, the championships will be conducted in five phases.

As per the approval, the department will host inter-school championships (boys and girls) for badminton (U-17), basketball (U-14, U-17), baseball (U-14, U-17), chess (U-14, U-17), fencing (U-14, U-17), football (U-14), artistic and rhythmic gymnastics (U-14, U-17) and table tennis (U-14, U-17) and boys’ U-14 cricket events from July 26 onwards. The last date for entries is said to be July 19.

In the second phase, the department will conduct championships (boys and girls) for shooting (U-14, U-17, U-19) , baseball (U-19), chess (U-19), cricket (U-17), fencing (U-19), football (U-17), artistic gymnastics (U-19), acrobatic gymnastics (U-19), handball (U-14, U-17, U-19), kabaddi (U-14, U-17), tennis ((U-14, U-17), swimming (U-14, U-17, U-19), archery (U-14, U-17, U-19), weightlifting (U-17, U-19) and squash (U-14, U-17, U-19) categories for boys and girls categories and girls’ U-19 rhythmic gymnastics from August 25 onwards. The interested teams are asked to confirm their entries before August 18.

The third phase, starting from October 3, includes events of badminton (U-14, U-19), basketball (U-19), football (U-19), kabaddi (U-19), kho-kho (U-18), tennis (U-14, U-17), table tennis (U-14, U-17, U-19), taekwondo (U-14, U-17, U-19), volleyball (U-14, U-17), cricket (U-19), softball (U-14, U-17), freestyle wrestling (U-14, U-17, U-19) and Greco Roman wrestling (U-17, U-19) and boys’ U-19 roller hockey. The teams have been asked to send entries before September 19.

Kho-kho (U-19), volleyball (U-19), cycling (U-14, U-17, U-19), hockey (U-14, U-17, U-19), judo (U-14, U-17, U-19), netball (U-14, U-17, U-19), boxing (U-14, U-17, U-19), softball (U-19), roller skating (U-11, U-14, U-17, U-19), yoga (U-14, U-17, U-19) and ball badminton (U-14, U-17, U-19) championships will be organised from November 9 and the last date for entry is October 28.

In the fifth and final phase, the department will conduct annual athletics meet from January 18 to 21 next year. The athletes will be able to send their entries before January 12, 2023.