Oct 17, Kathmandu: Nepal Police Club won 6 gold medals in Taekwondo at the 9th National Sports Competition held in Beni at the headquarters of Myagdi.

In the competition organized by the National Sports Council, the Nepali Army won three gold medals and Madhesh Province won one gold medal out of ten events till Sunday. Taekwondo coach of the National Sports Council Hira Thapa informed that the police won two medals, the Nepalese army three, the armed police two, Lumbini two, and Madhesh province one.

Gandaki and Province-1 won 6-5, Sena, Armed Forces, and Bagmati Province won 2 each, and Lumbini and Nepal Police Club won 1 bronze medal each. Bir Bahadur Mohar of Nepal Police won the gold medal in the men's 74 kg category and Sumit Bisht in the women's 54 kg category in the match held at Kalipul Covered Hall in Beni on Sunday evening under the Girogi category.

In the women's 57 kg category, Sandhya Kumari Singh of Nepali Army won gold, Srijana Bista of Lumbini won silver, Sabita Thapa of Gandaki, and Samiksha Limbu of Pradesh-1 won bronze. In the men's 74 kg category, Umeshraja Bhandari of Armed Forces won silver, Dan Bahadur Tamang of Bagmati and Shankar Paudel of Gandaki won bronze medals.

Abtab Alam of Madhesh won silver, Shiv Khadka of Province-1 and Ambika Prasad Ghimire of Sena won bronze medals in the men's 54 kg category. The police's Nisha Darnal Women and Kamal Shrestha bagged the gold medal in single poomsae. On the women's side, Swatika Tamang of the Nepali Army, Sushila Rai of Province-1, and Arpan Adhikari of Gandaki have won bronze medals.

Yuvraj Rana of Lumbini won silver, Ayush Gurung of Gandaki and Bivek Rai of Province-1 won silver medals in poomse single men. Nisha Darnal and Asmin Raut of police won gold, Dipendra Gurung, and Prashanna Chhetri of the army won silver, Ayush Gurung and Arpana Adhikari of Gandaki and Vivek Rai and Suviksha Rai of Province-1 won bronze medals in Pumsey Pier.

In Men's Team Pooms, Police's Prem Bahadur Limbu, Jit Bahadur Bot, and Kamal Shrestha won gold, Army's Dipendra Gurung, Rajan Rimal, Ram Kumar Pokharel won silver, Gandaki's Tarzan Kayat Magar, Tilak Siuthani Magar, Yukesh Thapamgar and Armed Forces' Srijan Shrestha, Norvu Moktan and Yovan Dahal won bronze medals. . In women's team, Swastika Tamang, Nita Gurung, Prashanna Chhetri of Army won gold, Nisha Darnal, Sita Tamang, Monika Ramtel of police won silver, Monica Magar, Smriti Nepali and Chanda Shahi of Shasastra and Manisha Vishwakarma, Shanti Rai and Sushila Rai of Province-1 won bronze medals. Have passed.

In the women's 53 kg weight category in Georgi, Army's Gita Kadayat won gold, Armed Forces' Asmita Khadka won silver, Nepal Police's Ayush Lama and Lumbini's Nima Malla won bronze medals. In the men's 58 kg weight group, Sow Akhtar of Madhesh province won gold, Subas Chandra Bohora of Police won silver, Lok Bahadur Raut of the Army, and Ramesh KC of Bagmati won bronze medals. Olympian Deepak Bista took the strength of the army to Kathmandu after the eighth competition and protected it. Nisha Darnal and Kamal Shrestha contributed to the police getting 4 golds.

The 22-event tournament organized by the National Sports Council will be held till October 19 District Sports Development Committee taekwondo coach ( Myagdi) Karn Pradhan, said that 330 players from seven provinces, three departments, and the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) participated. There will be competition for 22 gold and bronze medals and 44 silver medals.