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J&K Wushu team emerges 2nd runner-up in 5th Federation Cup 

LocalJ&K Wushu team emerges 2nd runner-up in 5th Federation Cup 

J&K Senior Wushu  team remained overall 3rd in the 5th Federation Wushu cup at Lovely professional University Jalandhar (Punjab). 12 member J&K team fetched  2 Gold,2 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals in the Championship. Punjab and Haryana Shared 1st and 2nd place in the championship.wushu state

Karan Sumbria and Riya Chib Secured Gold medals while as Haqeek Ahmed and Abhishek Singh Jamwal Secured Silver medals and Jabeena Akhter, Appu Jamwal, Mukul  Secured  Bronze Medals in the Championships. Pertinent to mention here that Senior Wushu team  and Sub- Junior  State team remained overall 3rd in the National Wushu championships  for the year 2017-18. Riya Singh Chib and Karan Sumbriya have participated first time in the senior national Wushu championship as they both were Junior Medalists earlier. Jabeen Akhter hailing from Tangmarg (Baramulla) also secured Bronze medals as she got Injury on her feet, and gave walkover in the semi finals. Abhishek Jamwal is silver medalist in the Moscow Wushu stars, and 7 times national medalists secured silver medal , but due to lack of equipments and infrastructure, he couldn’t do his best in the championship.

The overall performance of the team was excellent and hopes they will continue the winning spree in the forthcoming National Games and National Championships as stated by the Coach of the team Ms Ashi Jamwal

Wushu Sports has lot of potential in the state and  every district in the state is doing well in the national and International  level, Pertinent to mention here that 06 Players of the state  are in National Wushu coaching camp at SAI Bhopal for the Asian Games ,Junior World Wushu championships and World Cup, which is headed by the Kuldeep Handoo (Chief Coach of India)

The Office bearers of Wushu Association of J&K   S Owais, IPS ,H K Lohia, IPS, Vijay Saraf, Ranjeet Kalra,  Deepak Handa,  Sunil Sharma and Sohit Sharma have congratulated J&K Wushu team  for making the state proud. They appealed the State Government for support in shape of Basic Infrastrucutre and equipments, in view of the forthcoming international events and  National games.

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