Jaswant Jas
Faridkot, 9 December
The state level basketball and taekwondo sports competitions for boys and girls under the Games Watan Punjab Ki-2024 Season-3 started at the Nehru Stadium here. MLA Gurdit Singh Sekhon inaugurated the games. International basketball player Palpreet Singh Brar made a special appearance at the event. In these games, sports competitions of five different age groups of basketball and taekwondo games are being conducted. Regarding the results of the competitions held on the first day, District Sports Officer Baljinder Singh said that in taekwondo under 21-30 (girls) (weight 46 kg), Bimla (Moga) won the first place, Charanjit Kaur (Hoshiarpur) won the second place, (weight 49 kg). Rajni Kaur (Bathinda) got first place, Praveen Kaur (Moga) got second place, Sandeep Kaur (Hoshiarpur) third place, (weight 52 kg) Manisha (Faridkot) first place, (weight 70 kg) Virpal Kaur (Firojpur) first place, Sonali (Amritsar) second place, Rajpal Kaur (Sangrur) 3rd place, Gurjot Kaur (Mansa) got 3rd place. Kapurthala beat Barnala team, Amritsar team beat Fatehgarh Sahib team, Jalandhar team beat Patiala team in Under-17 (Girls) basketball competition.