Punjab’s Patiala Fencers Grab Two Gold Medals On Day 1

Punjab Fencer’s hosted the Fifth National Fencing Federation Cup at Raj Bhalendra Singh Sports Complex at Punjab University in Patiala on Monday. This tournament was dedicated to the late Arun Vij. The Punjab Fencers won two gold and two silver medals in the first day of the tournament. There events for the women as well. Here in the Women Foil Event, Jasmine from Punjab won the gold medal, while Radhika P Awati of Kerala took the silver and Baljeet Kaur of Chnadigarh was happy to take the Bronze medal.

In the Sabre Individual event, international fencer Komalpreet Kaur Shukla of Punjab won the gold medal and Neelam Rai won the silver. As for the Men’s Espee Individual tournament, Dharmender Singh of SSCB took away the gold medal, which left, Satish Garnik of Punjab to win the silver. The third spot was a tie between two very good performers. Here there was Pratap Singh of Uttarkhand and CJ Guruprakash of Tamil Nadu to win the broze and both got one bronze medal each.

Brahm Mhindra who is an MLA and the president of the Punjab Fencing Association along with general secretary Anil Arora and the Vice Chancellor of the Punjab University , Jaspal Singh were present at the opening ceremony of the tournament. This was a massive tournament with 21 teams in the men’s and women’s categories competing with each other to bag as gold, silver and bronze medals as they could.