Stanzin, Manveet win archery tournament

The first Traditional Archery Tournament held in the city saw Stanzin Youlow and Manveet Kaur taken the win in the men’s competition, respectively.

Youlow, who hails from Ladakh, beat the likes of Tsering Punchuk and Vikram Sharma who finished as the runner-up and second runner-up. City-based Kaur, meanwhile, was followed by Preeti Chauhan and Anmolpreet Kaur on podium.

The three-day competition, which also included a workshop on Dhanurveda and Dhanurvidya (Indian Classical/ Historical Archery), was organised in Sector 79.

It saw attendees learn the basic techniques based on Dhanurveda on January 24. Thereafter, a one-day practice session was organized, which was followed by the tournament on January 26.

Twenty participants competed in the Traditional Archery segment organised at the JJ Farms, Chunni, Landran Road.

The archers included those from Haryana, Tamilnadu, Ladakh, Kerala, Punjab, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh.

They competed in fourteen different challenges including 3D targets, hanging targets, Indian tribal pole target, triangular target, Bulgarian number target and Damnak target.