In the state-level junior taekwondo tournament, teams from Pune in the Kyorugi category and Mumbai Suburban in the Poomsay category won the title. The host Beed athletes recorded a brilliant performance and bagged four silver medals. Ratnagiri’s Rhea Mayekar and Amravati’s Prathamesh Maknar were honored with the Best Player Award of the tournament.
In this competition, the Pune team won 14 gold medals in the Kyorogy category and won the title. The Ratnagiri team won 3 gold medals and finished runner-up. The Mumbai Suburban team won the third position.
In the Poomsay category, the Mumbai Suburban team won the tournament by winning 3 gold medals. Raigad team won the runner-up position of the tournament while Palghar team won the third position of the tournament. The host BEED athletes also recorded a brilliant performance with 4 silver medals.
Dr. Sarikatai Kshirsagar conducted the prize distribution ceremony of the 34th Maharashtra State Junior Taekwondo Tournament organized by the Taekwondo Association of Beed with the approval of the Taekwondo Association of Maharashtra, Mumbai.
On this occasion, District Sports Officer Pandit Chavan, District Association President Nitin Kotecha, Dr. Elias Khan, Adv Shafiq Sheikh, Social Welfare Officer Pramod Sanap, Government Competition Inspector Sports Officer Aniket Kale, Taekwondo Association of Maharashtra Mumbai President Dr. Avinash Bargaje, General Secretary Milind Pathare, Shiv Chhatrapati Award winners Praveen Borse, Treasurer Venkatesh Karra, Satish Khemskar, Neeraj Borse, etc were present.
Here’s the list of medal-winning athletes for the taekwondo competition
Boys ranking
45 kg Boys: 1. Prathamesh Maknar (Amravati), 2. Sarthak Bhakre (Beed), 3. Sujal Patil (Mumbai Suburb) and Partha Pandey (Kolhapur).
48 Kg Boys: 1. Om Borse (Pune), 2. Sarthak Chavan (Ratnagiri), 3. Ayush Sakpal (Mumbai) and Siddharth Hazare (Kolhapur).
51 Kg Boys: 1. Yash Tekam (Amravati), 2. Ashish Phalke (Mumbai), 3. Srikrishna Gopalghare (Pune) and Pranav Chowghule (Kolhapur).
55 Kg Boys: 1. Aryan Raut (Pune), 2. Krishnaraj Kadam (Mumbai Suburb), 3. Provincial Jamgade (Nagpur) and Shivam Shahani (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar).
59 kg Boys: 1. Ashwet Jadhav (Pune), 2. Lokesh Mahajan Jalgaon, 3. First Bhandarkar (Gondia) and Satyajit Gonugade (Kolhapur).
63 Kg Boys: 1. Vishwajit Vengade (Pune), 2. Omkar Pardeshi (Beed), 3. Abhishek Pandav (Kolhapur) and Nishant Kale (Nagpur).
68 kg Boys: 1. Anirudh Waghmare (Pune), 2. Rishikesh Bedse (Thane), 3. Devraj Deodhar (Kolhapur) and Samarth Sakpal (Ratnagiri).
73 Kg Boys: 1. Arnav Chavan (Pune), 2. Yuvraj Lovete (Sangli), 3. Pranav Potdar (Kolhapur) and Muzammil Khan (Akole).
78 Kg Boys: 1. First Keshwani (Thane), 2. Ritesh Dabhade (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), 3. Rudraksha Golar (Nagpur) and Govinddev Phule (Pune).
Above 78 Kg Group Boys: 1. Shivank Bhardwaj (Pune), 2. Aritra Moza (Thane), 3. Om Bargaje (Ahmadnagar) and Om Aparaj (Ratnagiri).
Girls ranking
42 kg girls: 1. Rhea Mayekar (Ratnagiri), 2. Yashasvi Chavan (Beed), 3. Pragati Swamy (Pune) and Mridula Hosur (Kolhapur).
44 kg girls: Trisha Mayekar (Ratnagiri), 2. Anuja Gharal (Kolhapur), 3. Samrudhi Yadav (Thane) and Anushree Rathod (Dharashiv).
46 kg Girls: 1. Tanishka Kale (Pune), 2. Vaishnavi Patil (Kolhapur), 3. Arpita Ramteke (Chandrapur) and Vaishnavi Patil (Ratnagiri).
49 kg girls: 1. Radha Waghmare (Pune), 2. Priyanka Dharma (Kolhapur), 3. Sesha Jayaswal (Nagpur) and Gargi Mhaske (Mumbai).
52 kg girls: 1. Mayuri Gawde (Pune), 2. Nikita Pawar (Jalgaon), 3. Shruti Kausale (Beed) and Tanaya Shelke (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar).
55 kg girls: 1. Vedashree Gawde (Pune), 2. Nutan Pund (Amravati), 3. Prajyoti Jadhav (Sindhudurg) and Ashriya Vast (Mumbai).
59 kg girls: 1. Tanushree Narkar (Ratnagiri), 2. Shraddha Walhekar (Pune), 3. Mansi Dolas (Ahmednagar) and Mayuri Salunkhe (Mumbai).
63 kg girls: 1. Nancy Singh (Pune), 2. Vidhi Gore (Ratnagiri), 3. Tanzilla Akhtar (Nandurbar) and Sneha Waghmare (Kolhapur).
68 kg Girls: 1. Siddhi Bendale (Pune), 2. Diti Satope (Mumbai Suburb), 3. Anushka Kale (Chandrapur) and Sanskriti Nage (Akola).
Above 78 Kg Group Girls: 1. Arya Shinde (Pune), 2. Arya Otwakar (Thane), 3. Suhani Dhanal (Kolhapur) and Aditi Rahte (Mumbai).
