Lucknow: Seventeen players from Lucknow will compete for medals at the North Zone Muay Thai Championship, scheduled to be held at the University of Jammu on October 24 and 25. The Lucknow team departed for Jammu on Wednesday evening.
The players representing Lucknow are Neev Atul Pandey, Riyan Sharma, Vansh Agarwal, Goodluck Upadhyay, Ayan Singh, Purnima Sharma, Shreya, Sakshi, Shivansh Nishad, Sania Nishad, Anshika Yadav, Arpita Nagar, Ashmin Khatoon, Ashiqui Khatoon, Devvardhan Prasad, Shaurya Shashwat Shukla and Shreyansh Shashwat Shukla.
Kajal Kashyap and Arjun Chaudhary will accompany the team as coaches, while Poonam will serve as the team manager. Referees Ratnesh Sharma, Neelam Prasad and Mohammad Faizan Siddiqui will also be part of the contingent. Including coaches, officials and support staff, Lucknow will have a 25-member contingent at the championship.
Before the team’s departure, Dr Syed Rafat Zubair Rizvi, chief patron of the Lucknow Muay Thai Association and general secretary of the Lucknow Olympic Association, extended his best wishes to the players. He expressed confidence that their hard work, dedication, discipline and sportsmanship would help them deliver strong performances and win medals for Lucknow.
Lucknow Muay Thai Association president Sneha Atul Pandey also wished the players, coaches and officials success. Association secretary Arjun Chaudhary and treasurer Lalita Sharma extended their greetings, while Atul Pandey, general secretary of the Muay Thai Association of Uttar Pradesh, expressed confidence in the team’s performance.
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