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The Hindu
a day ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Midhilesh Academy wins big at Taekwondo Championship 2025
As many as 20 athletes from the city-based Midhilesh Taekwondo Academy won laurels at the 5th Sub Junior Taekwondo Championship 2025 held at Yelamanchili for boys and girls below 11 years, on July 27. The event was organised by Anakapalli Youth Taekwondo Association and was promoted by the Taekwondo Association of Andhra Pradesh, under the aegis of India Taekwondo. As many as 108 players from different mandals, clubs and academies across Visakhapatnam participated. Among them 20 players — 11 boys and 9 girls from the Midhilesh Taekwondo Academy's Muralinagar, Nausena Baugh, and Coast Guard branch bagged 12 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 1 bronze medal in Kyorugi. The academy also won a gold in the Individual Poomsae (prearranged sequences of Taekwondo techniques practiced individually), and 1 silver in Group Poomsae. The academy also also clinched 1st place in the Overall Championship. Midhilesh Taekwondo Academy, Founder and coach Midhilesh Pallam attributed the result to the dedication and hard work of the budding champions.
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
DGP distributes prizes to winners of shooting competitions
The Tamil Nadu Police organised State Police Shooting Competitions for Men and Women – 2025 at Tamil Nadu Commando Firing Range, Othivakkam, Chengalpattu District from July 24 to 26. In these competitions, 13 types of events were conducted in three categories. Nine teams of men comprising 204 police personnel and eight teams of women comprising 101 police personnel from various cities/ zones/ special units of police took part. In the competitions for Men category, the South Zone Team won Overall Championship Trophy while Headquarters team won Overall Runners- up Trophy Similarly, in the competitions for Women category, West Zone Team won the Overall Championship while North Zone team won the Runners up Trophy. On Saturday, the Director General of Police Shankar Jiwal presided over the prize distribution ceremony and felicitated the winners and presented trophies, medals and certificates. The competitions were organised by Additional Director General of Police, Operations, In this event, Inspector General of Police, B. Vijayakumari, acted as Jury of Appeal.
