Shimla dist dominate badminton championship

Shimla district dominated the third All-India Raja Virbhadra Singh Memorial Open Badminton Championship held at the Raja Virbhadra Singh Sports Complex in Kumarhatti, Solan.

Shimla’s Himanshu Parmar emerged victorious in the 45-year-old category final, defeating Jatinder Singh Shanti of Jalalabad.

Parmar and Sunny Papata emerged victorious in the 40-year-old doubles final, defeating the pair of Manish and Ravi from Chhattisgarh.

Parmar and Papata, also from Shimla, emerged victorious in the 35-year-old category, defeating the pair of Aman and Danish from Dehradun. Udit Karol of Shimla was the runner-up in the 35-year-old singles competition.

Udit lost to Bhupin Sharma in the final match. Krishant Pandey and Vishwajeet Singh of Shimla emerged victorious in the 17-year age group doubles match.

In the final match, they defeated Anshuman and Harshit of Kapoor Badminton Academy, Dharamsala. Vishwajeet Singh of Shimla was victorious in the 17-year age group match. He defeated Bhavneet of Mandi.

Sonakshi and Srishti of Shimla won the 15-years age group girls match.