North East Sports Competition ends Manipur emerge overall champion, Arunachal finish 2nd ITANAGAR, Dec 13: Manipur—the power house of Indian sports—underlined their growing prowess emerging overall champion in the North East Sports Competition which concluded at Sangey Lhaden Sports Academy Complex, Chimpu near here today. Manipur won 89 medals--37 gold, 24 silver and 28 bronze--whereas Arunachal Pradesh won 31 gold, 20 silver and 24 bronze medals to finish runners up followed by Assam that won 29 gold, 25 silver and 36 bronze medals. Karate contributed the major chunk of medals (12) for the host state. Arunachal won gold medals in Karate (nine) Judo (five), Boxing (five), Weightlifting (four), Badminton (three), Archery (two), Wushu (one) and Track and Field events (one). Arunachal created history by winning gold medals for the first time in NE Games since introduction of the games 28 years ago. Ace shuttler of the state Laa Talar lived up to home crowds expectations and won the men’s single title defeating W. James of Manipur in the final. The hosts also clinched two gold medals in women’s single and double events and bagged the team champion in Badminton. Lifters Soram Hitlar Tagru, Yukar Tachak, Kojum Taba and Tang Devi did not disappoint and clinched a gold medal each in their respective weight categories. Another promising lifter from Arunachal Sambo Lapung won a Silver medal. Both Kojum and Lapung will represent India in the next Commonwealth (Weightlifting) Games to be held in Pune and Asian Junior Weightlifting Championship, 2015, the venue for which is yet to be fixed, told ASI coach Subedar RK Lanke. He also informed that Kojum is one of the biggest medal hopes for India in the next Olympics.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 06:03:19 +0000
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