Kapurthala bags Women’s Wrestling Championship

Jaswant Singh Gandam & Raman Nehra
India Post News Service

PHAGWARA, Punjab: The 21^st Punjab Women Senior Wrestling Championship was bagged by host Kapurthala district women team.

It was held on Sunday November 11 in the stadium of Government Senior Secondary School (Boys) Phagwara under the aegis of Kapurhala district Wrestling Association, headed by eminent industrialist, philanthropist and NGO stalwart Kuldip K. Sardana.
Raipur Dabba Olympic Wrestling Academy in charge and former national wrestling coach of Indian team PR Sondhi, who is also district Association General Secretary, said that the champions scored 32 points.

Jalandhar district team was runners up with 24 points while Moga district team ended up third with 13 points, he said. 100 women wrestlers of different weight categories from 16 districts took part in it, he said.
Phagwara SP Mandeep Singh Gill inaugurated it while Phagwara SDM Dr (Mrs) Sumit Mudh distributed prizes.
Padam Shri Kartar Singh, international veteran wrestler and President Punjab Wrestling Association and Inder Singh, Arjuna awardee legendary footballer, graced the occasion.

Sondhi said that as per new rules, two bronze medals were awarded to two third position holders of every weight. However, one gold and one silver medal was awarded to winners of first and second positions of these weights, he said.
 

Results-

50kg-1^st Preeti Kapurthala(KPT), 2^nd Manpreet Kaur Taran Taran(TT), 3^rd Pinki Kaur Jalandhar(JAL) and Manpreet Kaur Faridkot (FDK)

53 kg-1^st Navjit Kaur KPT, 2^nd Simranjit Moga, 3^rd Pooja JAL and Sharanjit Kaur Fatehgarh Sahib(FGS)

55kg-1^st Manpreet Kaur KPT, 2^nd Pardeep Kaur Moga, 3^rd Ramandeep Kaur JAL and Kajal FGS

57kg-1^st Raj FGS, 2^nd Pawanjit Kaur Faridkot (FDK), 3^rd Manpreet Moga and Jovanjit Kaur JAL

59kg-1^st Rajvir Kaur JAL, 2^nd Loveleen Kaur TT, 3^rd Soma Rani KPT and Manpreet Kaur FGS

62 kg-1^st Bharti SharmaKPT, 2^nd Sandeep KaurTT, 3^rd Harjit Kaur Moga and Manveer Kaur JAL

65 kg-1^st Jaspreet KaurJAL, 2^nd Jaspreet Kaur KPT, 3^rd Kirandeep Kaur FGS and Amrtpal Kaur Amritsar (ASR)

68 kg-1^st Jashanbir Kaur JAL, 2^nd Veerpal Kaur KPT, 3^rd Simranjit Kaur FGS and Mandeep Kaur Moga

72 kg-1^st-Kulwinder Kaur KPT, 2^nd Navjot Kaur Moga, 3^rd Milandeep Kaur FGS and Komalpreet Kaur FDK

76 kg- 1^st Gursharanpreet Kaur JAL, 2^nd Sukhpal Kaur TT, 3^rd Simran Kaur Moga and Damanpreet Kaur KPT