Patna: Patna emerged as the overall champion at the 4th Ramdev Mahato Memorial Open State Taekwondo Championship held at Arora House in Patna City on Sunday. East Champaran became the runner-up. The Gopalganj team stood third. The chief guest of the closing ceremony, Patna Municipal Corporation Mayor Sita Sahu, gave away trophies to the winning and runner-up teams.
Jai Prakash Mehta, who was presiding over the function, welcomed the guests. On this occasion, Bihar State BJP Minister Ratnesh Kushwaha and Patna District Taekwondo Association President Satish Raju, were present.
Results:
Gold Medal: Ujjwal Mishra (Gopalganj) Sujit Kumar (Saran) Rishu Raj (Patna) Rajneesh Ku. Gupta (Gopalganj) Ankit Aryan (Motihari) Shivam Singh (Motihari) Khushdeel Singh (Motihari) Vikas Kumar (Motihari) Deepak Kumar (Patna) Aditya Shubham (Lakhisarai) Aditya Raj (Saran) Ravis Raman (Patna) Krish Raj (Patna) Anmol Priyadarshi (Patna) Manya Singh (Motihari) Arjun Srivastava (Motihari), Swati Kumari and Sakshi Kumari.
Silver Medal: Adarsh Raj (Patna) Rajkumar (Lakhisarai) Aryan Ku. (Patna) Rohit Pandey (Gopalganj) Adhiraj (Lakhisarai) Shubham Thakur (Gopalganj) Ashiq Alam (Motihari) Pawan Kumar (Motihari) Balli Kumar (Patna) Rahul Ku. (Motihari) Adarsh Kumar. (Motihari) Asif Hussain (Motihari) Atish Kumar (Motihari) Raunak Rai (Lakhisarai).
Bronze Medal: Adnan Iqbal (Motihari) Abhay Ku. Sharma (Gopalganj) Guddu Ku. (Motihari) Arpit Tiwari (Gopalganj) Adarsh Tiwari (Gopalganj) Utkarsh Rai (Patna) Arihant Keshav (Patna).