The Hindu : Sport / Karate : TN dominates kata events

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TN dominates kata events

Principal Correspondent

KOCHI: Tamil Nadu karatekas dominated the kata events, winning six of the 10 individual golds, on the opening day of the eighth National-level open karate tournament, organised by the Kerala chapter of the International Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Seibukan Karate Do of India, at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here on Saturday.

The results: Individual kata: Men: 1. Bhuvanendra Bose (TN); 2. P. Sreenivasalu (TN); 3. R. Velmurugan (TN) & A. Ajeesh (Tvm) Boys 16-18 years: 1. H. Mohammed Imran (Chennai); 2. K. Balaji (TN); 3. S. Rajesh Kumar & R.Vijay (both TN). 14-16 years: 1. Sandeep Chanda (Meg); 2. C. Senthil Kumar; 3. S. Akhilan & K. Suman (TN). 12-14 years: 1. M. Tamil Vendan (TN); 2. S.K. Nandakumar (Ker); 3. S. Kevin Kumar (TN) & K.S. Chandra Sekharan (Ker). 10-12 years: 1. Pankaj Gogoi (Ker); 2. Ebin Tom (Ker); 3. S. Vaishnav (Ker) & A. Pradeep (TN). Under-10: 1. Dipankar Tanwar; 2. Govind Devasia; 3. Hantano Phukan (all Ker) & C. Akash (Kar). Team kata: 1. Mysore (Navnik Shivadas, A. Abhishek, Sagaar); 2. Mysore (S. Harsha, Siddaraju, C. Akshay); 3. Chennai (K. Balaji, L. Manikandan, R. Velmurugan) & Mysore (J. Chetan, S. Prajwal, S. Nitin).

Women (individual kata): 1. Gayatri Vijaykumar (Ker); 2. Y. Srilakshmi (TN); 3. Aathira Muraleedharan & Manju Borohain (both Ker). Girls 12-14: 1. Priyanka Sharma (TN); 2. Y.A. Geethu Babu (Ker); 3. Josel Jose Mathew (Ker) & S. Induja (TN). 10-12: 1. P.R. Pavithra (TN); 2. Akshitha G. Rao (Ker); 3. R. Kavya (Kar) & R. Kavya (TN). Under-10: 1. S. Shreya; 2. Tabitha; 3. Chandhini (all TN) & Ann Tresa Sony (Ker).