PANJIM: RCC Fatorda won the overall team championship at the 47th all-Goa Athletic championship in the memory of HP Naik (international starter), held on January 10 and 11, at Athletic Stadium, Bambolim, here.
The event was organized by Goa Athletic Association for boys and girl’s under-10, under-12, under-14, under-16, under-18, under-20 and in men’s and women’s categories.
Best Athlete in the male award went to Yuraj Singh from the under-12 category while Rizma Fernandes of RCC Fatorda bagged top honours in the girl’s section.
Defence minister of India, Manohar Parrikar was the chief guest for the opening ceremony while Gurudas Bhakta, secretary of Goa Olympic Association was the chief guest for the closing ceremony, on Sunday.
There was very good response in the under-10 and under-12 age groups. A total of 15 athletes have qualified to represent Goa in the forthcoming National Games schedule to be held in Kerala. The athletes are: Anik Naik, Andy Fernandes, Sidharth Gad, Nativity Colaco, Vikas Velip, Francisco Clemente, Bright Devassya, Sukhimder Singh, Satish Kumar, Irfan Shaikh, Shankar Dhamdhay, Prajwal Shetty, Steffi Cardozo, Desire Pereira and Charmine Furtado.
