Army leads medal tally with 9 gold medals, J&K bags 4 at Khelo Games

Naseer Ganai

Srinagar, February 24

The Army stole the show on the third day of the 4th Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) on Saturday by bagging nine gold medals, five silver and 20 bronze followed by Karnataka with eight gold medals, two silver and 10 bronze.

Jammu and Kashmir won four medals. A local boy from Tangmarg, Shahid Ahmad Chachi, triumphed ski mountaineering in men’s verticle category at Kangdoori with gold, the first one for UT.

In the same event for women, Kamaya Kartikayan from Maharashtra, Menak Gunjiyal from Uttrakhand and Gousia Gulzar from J&K won gold, silver and bronze respectively.

Besides, in the sport of Alpine Skiing Slalom for women Anchal Thakur from Himachal Pradesh clinched Gold, Sobiya Nabi from J&K followed with silver and Diya Thakur from Himachal with bronze.

Apline Skiing Slalom for Men witnessed Army triumphing with medals as it’s athletes Baqir Hussain won gold medal, Mayank Panwar obtained silver, Jekmat Rafstan got bronze. Baqir also becomes the player who won gold medals both in giant slalom and slalom.

In another event of Snowboard Parallel Slalom of Men’s Category, Kulvinder Sharma from Army, Vikar from J&K and Kamal Jeet from Himachal emerged victorious wining Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively. Like Anchal Thakur and Baqir Hussain, Kulvinder Sharma also took second gold medal after winning Snowboard Slalom and Parallel Slalom at Kangdoori.

Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Nisith Pramanik and six-time Olympian Shiva Keshavan handed the medals to the podium finishers.