By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: In the National Junior, Junior and Cadet Karate Championship held in Dehradun, Odisha Karate won a total of 32 medals including 12 gold, 4 silver and 16 bronze medals and secured 2nd place in the Odisha All-India Medal List. For this historic achievement, the Odisha State Karate-Do Association felicitated the 42 medal-winning competitors and the coaches and team managers who travelled with the team.
The medal-winning competitors were : Alisa Subbuddhi , Women’s Team Kata (Alisa Subbuddhi , Supriya Mohanty , Shwetanjana Sahu , Saranya Sahu) Team Kata Men’s Sub Junior (Badri Narayan Sahu , Vishwadeep Behera , Shreyanshu Sihal , Prathyasun Parida) Chitrax Das , Lailesh Viswal , Somya Ranjan Patra , Aditya Raj Pradhan , Akanksha Mohanty , Vaishali Patra , Shreya Kanungo , Rajeshwari Singh , Team Kata Sub Junior Women (Kalpita Das , Jashwasi Priyadarshani Mishra , Ditiksha Priyadarshani Samanta , M. Shreyansi) while Neetika Mahant , Aslesh Panda , Shreya Subbadarshani , and Soumit Patra won the silver medal. Similarly, in the junior men’s team kata (Dol Govinda Behera , Upprit Kumar Das , Ayushman Mishra , Shivkrupa Mishra), Archita Priyadarshini , Ansuman Acharya , Adika Ashet Sahu , Surya Narayan Martha , Soham Swain, Vishwadeep Behera , Daksita Nahar, Dishantika Panda , Saira Jena , Divyansi Ghadei , Samayak Mahant , Ishani Panda , Tanishka Raut , Saranya Padhi .
Team Manager and Coaches : Kharavela Malik , Santosh Maharana , Deepak Samantara , Rajiv Singh , Sushant Panda , Rajendra Keshari Samal , K. G. K. Pratihari , Avinash Pundhir
Odisha State Karate-Do Association Secretary Dr. Gauri Mohanty , President Dr. Hari Prasad Patnaik , Joint Editor Advocate Kali Prasad Nanda , Sanat Nayak , Pradeep Sarkar and other workers were present at this felicitation ceremony .
