Kathmandu, October 14
Rubin Maharjan and Evana Thapa of AVM Table Tennis Club won gold at the Nepal Youth Table Tennis Championship on Wednesday. Rubin won the boys’ U-21 singles and Ivana the girls’.
At the competition, held at the National Table Tennis Training Centre in Lainchaur, Gananjaya Dahal of Nepal Police finished second in the boys’ U-21 singles. Samir Khatri of Vision Table Tennis Club and Rijan Shakya of Yal Table Tennis finished third.
In the girls’ U-21 singles, Biyanka Rai of AVM finished second, while Ashma Pahari and Saira Shakya, both also of AVM, took third place.
In the boys’ U-17 singles at the competition, organised by Nepal Table Tennis Pvt. Ltd, Prajwal Bhattarai of AVM won gold and Rijan Shakya of Yal won silver. Nischal Thapa of Stag Champions Table Tennis Club and Rivanmuni Bajracharya of Yal took bronze.
The two-day competition featured six events. Earlier, Saira Shakya had won gold in the U-13 and U-17 girls’ singles, and Rivanmuni Bajracharya in the U-13 boys’ singles.
The winners were awarded by National Sports Council (NSC) Member-Secretary Ram Charitra Mehta, Chief Adviser of the Ministry of Education and Sports Siddhi Byanjankar, and NSC Executive Committee member Sikka Suwal Shrestha, among others. The total prize money for the competition was Rs 200,000.
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