Gold to Aryan and Shubhashree in National School Table Tennis

Aryan defeated AVM's Jaysnu Maharjan, who won three gold medals in the first U-15 school sports tournament held in Pokhara last week of June, in the boys' final at the National Table Tennis Training Center in Lanchaur on Tuesday 11-9, 14-12, 9-11, 6-11, 11-9. . Region Shakya from Bhasar and Suvin Chhetri from New Horizon came third. In the

girls' final, Shubhashree defeated Suramya Shakya of St. Mary's in straight sets 11-8, 11-4, 11-6. Prajna Maharjan of Prime Global and Arsana Maharjan of AVM came third. The players who won the top three positions in both boys/girls received cash prizes of 15,000, 7,500 and 3,000 respectively.

Arambharaj Shakya of Delight Kindergarten became the first in the U-12 boys singles competition organized by Soface Nepal in collaboration with Gorakhnath Mavi. He defeated Anmol Bajgai of James by 3-2 sets in the final. In the girls' final, Aruni's Yojana Punamagar beat James' Suhana Maharjan by 3-1 sets.

Arnav Shrestha of Srishti Academy won gold in U-14 boys singles. In the final, he defeated James' Archit Shah in straight sets 3-0. In the girls final, Drashtika Shrestha won 3-1 over Swarnim's Supriya Kapali.

In the boys team event, AVM stood first, Vasara second and New Horizon and Everest stood third. Even in girls, AVM stood at the top. Prabhat came second and Mangal and Swastishree Gurukul came third.

The vice president of Nepal Olympic Committee Chaturanandaraj Vaidya, chief coach of table tennis Rajendra Kapali, president of Sophes Prof. Dr. Ramakrishna Maharjan and others awarded. In the

competition, 177 boys and 76 girls from 44 different schools competed in 8 events.