Rubin and Ivana won gold at the Youth Table Tennis Championship

KATHMANDU:- Rubin Maharjan and Ivana Thapa of AVM Table Tennis Club won gold medals at the Nepal Youth Table Tennis Championship on Wednesday. Rubin secured the gold in the U-21 boys’ singles, while Ivana won the title in the girls’ category.

In the U-21 boys’ singles event held at the National Table Tennis Training Center in Lainchaur, Gananjay Dahal of Nepal Police finished second, while Samir Khatri of Vision Table Tennis Club and Rijan Shakya of Yala Table Tennis shared third place.

In the U-21 Girls’ Singles, AVM’s Biyanka Rai finished second, while AVM’s Aasma Pahari and Saira Shakya finished third.

In the U-17 Boys’ Singles event organized by Nepal Table Tennis Pvt. Ltd., AVM’s Prajwal Bhattarai won gold, Yala’s Rijan Shakya won silver, and Stag Champions Table Tennis Club’s Nischal Thapa and Yala’s Rivhanmuni Bajracharya won bronze.

Competitions were held across six different events during the two-day tournament. Earlier, Saira Shakya had won gold in the U-13 and U-17 girls’ singles, while Rivhanmuni Bajracharya won gold in the U-13 boys’ singles.

The winners were awarded by National Sports Council (NSC) Member-Secretary Ramcharitra Mehta, Chief Advisor to the Ministry of Education and Sports Siddhi Byanjankar, and NSC Executive Committee member Sikka Suwal Shrestha, among others. The total prize purse for the competition was Rs 200,000.