Pokhara: As part of the 9th national games being held in Kaski, APF’s Rajendra Gajurel won gold medal in the ‘Single Saver’ category of Fencing while Rama Singh of Nepal Army won in the ‘Foyer’ category for women and Omkar Singh of Bagmati Province won the gold medal in the ‘EP category’ for men.
Gajurel of APF won the first gold for the team in the competition held at the badminton hall in Pokhara Stadium. Prior to this, he had won silver medal in the team event in the seventh National Games.
Likewise, Nepal Army’s Upendra Bahadur Shahi won the silver medal while Army’s Raghuveer Chandra and APF’s Khemraj Khatri won bronze medals in the Single Saver category.
Singh, the gold medalist in the women’s foyer category had won gold medal in the 7th National Games and the silver medal in the 8th.
APF’s Manisha Rai won silver medal and APF’s Manisa Thapa and Anita Adhikari bagged bronze medals.
In the men’s EP category, Ram Thapa of Nepal Army won the silver medal. Similarly, Vijay Adhikari of Gandaki region and Min Karki of APF managed to win bronze medals.
According to the ranking table of fencing till now, Army is at the top position with nine medals including two gold, three silver and four bronze.
Similarly, Bagmati province has won four medals including two gold, one silver and one bronze. The Armed Police is third position with nine medals including one gold, two silver and six bronze.
National Sports Council Member Secretary Tanglal Ghising distributed medals to today’s winners.
