Team Herald
PANJIM: The Shotokan Karate Association of Goa (SKAG) bagged 14 gold, 18 silver and 54 bronze medals at the All Goa Open Karate Championship 2017 organized by Traditional Karate Association Goa, India and recognised by Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) at indoor stadium, Campal-Panjim, recently.
The medal winners were trained under the guidance of chief instructor Sensei Mahendra Kishore Naik (Black Belt 4th Dan), Sempai Sandesh Mardolkar (Black Belt 2nd Dan) and Sempai Hanumant Gorawar (Black Belt 2nd Dan, SAG coach).
Following are the medal winners from Porvorim, Khorlim-Mapusa, Dojo de Goa-Panjim, Old Goa, Ribander and Caranzalem Dojo (Class).
Under-6 girls, white/yellow/orange belt: Prutha Govekar (silver Kata).
U-8girls, white/yellow/orange belt: Siya Talwadker (bronze Kata) and (bronze kumite). Green/blue/purple belt: Aessica Caiado (gold Kata) and (silver Kumite).
U-10 white/yellow/orange belt: Disha Poojary (bronze Kumite), Evelyn Coutinho (bronze Kata), Shreya Bangera (bronze kata). Green/blue/purple belt: Saanvi Vernekar (bronze Kata), Nandika Acharya (gold Kata). Brown and Black Belt: Saishma Asolkar (bronze Kumite).
U-12 green/blue/purple belt: Cioma Fernandes (bronze kumite). Brown and black belt: Trisha Rane (bronze Kata), Shrungi Divkar (bronze kata) and (bronze Kumite), Sidonia Fernandes (silver kata).
U-14 Green/blue/purple belt: Ranjana Bargundi (bronze kata).
U-16 brown and black belt: Hanisha Naik (bronze Kata) and (bronze Kumite).
Below 50Kg: Kunjal Kalangutkar (bronze kata) and (bronze Kumite)
U-18 White/yellow/orange belt: Sufiya Tonse (gold each kata and kumite)
Below 55Kg U-18 Brown and black belt: Anushka Shah (gold each kata and kumite).
Below 50kg U-21brown and black belt: Samidha Bhanage (bronze kumite).
Above 50 kg U-8 boys white/yellow/orange belt: Karthik Divkar (silver Kata),
Avneesh Dangi (bronze kumite), Deepan Karmalkar (silver kumite), Anish Gupta (bronze kumite) and Orban Fernandes (gold kata and bronze kumite). Green/blue/purple: Shamrao Desai (silver kata), Kunal Kholkar (gold kata) and (bronze kumite).
U-10 white/yellow/orange: Piyush Lingudkar (bronze kata), Saideep Kerkar (bronze kumite), Balkrishna Naik (silver kata), Orlando Fernandes (bronze Kata) and (silver kumite) and Akshay Priolkar (silver kata and (bronze kumite).
Green/blue/purple: Mahantesh Pujari (bronze kata), Lavesh Dalvi (bronze kumite), Ruarc Fernandes (bronze kata) and Rudra Garg (bronze kata).
Green to brown belt: Rudra Lingudkar (gold kumite).
U-12 White/yellow/orange belt: Prince Agarwadekar (gold kata).
Green/blue/purple: Ojaswa Naik (bronze kata), Suraj Anvatti (silver kumite) and Kaushal Kankonkar (bronze kata and silver kumite).
Brown and black belt: Yash Kolikar (gold kata), Yukransh Mandrekar (bronze kata and bronze kumite) and Rishabh Nagvenkar (bronze kumite).
U-14 White/yellow/orange belt: Sunny Kankonkar (bronze Kata and silver Kumite), Akash Priolkar (bronze kumite).
Green/blue/purple belt: Amey Kuttikar (bronze Kata), Asim Shaikh (bronze kata), Arantes Caiado (gold kata and bronze kumite).
Brown and black belt: Aditya Samant (bronze Kata), Utkarsh Natekar (bronze kata), Shamik Hubli (bronze kumite), Abhinn Tari (bronze kata).
U-16 Brown and black belt: Sapresh Mandrekar (bronze kata), Swed Gavnekar (bronze kumite).
Below 45 kg U-16 Green/blue/purple belt: Akash Suresh (silver kumite), Vishal Naik (bronze kata and bronze kumite), Sanish Melekar (gold kumite), Samay Das (silver kata and bronze kumite).
U-18 green/blue/purple belt: Vinayak Aralimatti (gold kata). Brown and black belt: Shashank Naik (silver kumite).
Below 50 kg: Sandesh Kolikar (bronze kata and bronze kumite).
Below 65 kg: Kharesh Kankonkar (bronze kumite).
Below 60 kg U-21Brown and black belt: Askarali Patil (bronze kumite).
Below 70 kg above 21 (men) green/blue/purple belt: Shriram Bandekar (silver kata and bronze kumite).
Below 60 kg above 21 (men) brown and black belt: Pankaj Chodanker (bronze kumite). Above 70 kg: Amey Amonkar (silver kata and silver kumite).
More than 600 students participated in the championship from across the State.
