Mangaluru teens strike gold at national ice skating championship


Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (AM)

Mangaluru, Jan 9: Two skaters have brought laurels to the city by clinching gold medals at the XIII National Ice Skating Championships held in Shimla and Delhi from January 3 to 6.

Niranjan Rajeev and Ashel D'Silva bagged national gold medals in the under-15 boys and under-13 girls categories respectively. The duo has also been selected for the Indian national team and would be sent abroad to receive advanced Olympic training.


Ashel D'Silva and Niranjan Rajeev 


Avani S Kumar and Shravan Mahesh

Niranjan, son of Rajeev Gopalakrishnan and Nisha Panicker of Mangaluru, is a class 8 student of Lourdes Central School in the city. Ashel is studying in Class 7 at Cambridge School, Mangaluru and is the daughter of Alwyn D'Silva and Asha D'Silva of Mangaluru.

Niranjan and Ashel are presently trained by Avadhut Tawade, Indian national coach for short track ice skating.

Ashel's brother Ashwin D’Silva is also a national short track ice skater and would be representing India at the World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships to be held at Austria towards the end of this month.

Besides, Avani S Kumar and Shravan Mahesh, who train at Mahesh Roller Skating Club, have won the gold and silver medals in the XIII National Ice Speed Skating Championship held at Gurugram in Harayana organized by the Ice Skating Association of India. Avani also won a trophy.

  

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  • sonu, kankanady

    Fri, Jan 13 2017

    Congratulations Shravan and Avani. Congrats to your coach Mahesh Kumar. Mangalore Roller Skating Club is proud of you both.

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  • martin,

    Thu, Jan 12 2017

    well done kids.. way to go.. ya work harder .. you can be Olympian soon.. ALL THE BEST.
    we all very very proud of you.

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  • Anil, München/Munich

    Thu, Jan 12 2017

    Congratulation !!!

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  • jossy and cynthy, Angelore/Mangalore

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Congratulations Ashel for the wonderful achievement,also,Alwyn and Asha,

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Mangalore team participated in Ice skating? Oh ok.

    Mangalore kids made it to the national finals in ice skating? hard to believe

    Mangalore kids won gold? oh my god .. give me a brake ..
    SO SO  SO HAPPY SO PROUD... congratulations to kids, parents and the trainer offcource. all the very best for international level too.

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    break***

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  • Ex Sgt George A Borromeo, Pumpwell

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    We are proud of them. Congrats to them, their Trainer and their Parents.

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  • Zeitgeist, Mangalore

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Is there a ice skating rink in mangalore?

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Both of them go to prestigious CBSE schools in the city where many sport facilities are available to entice high profile parents' wards.

    Probably ice rink too is one of them.

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Great effort by the young kiddos!
    Congratulations to them as well as trainer!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Pramod Madwaraj was right ...

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  • Laks, Karkala

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Pramod Madwaraj is left...

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    A moment of pride to us. I congratulate the winners, their parents and of-course the couch.

    Good luck to Ashwin in his endeavours - come with gold son.

    Let there be more emphasis put on sport, let us, being one of most populated countries in the world, represent India in large numbers as other countries do and win medals in similar numbers, not just participate.

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  • Gangaram, Moodbidri

    Wed, Jan 11 2017

    Heartiest congratulation to little ones as well as their trainers....

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