Governor's Cup: Imphal East fencers clinch overall championship title
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 08 2022:
Imphal East swept the board in the 18th Governor's Cup State Level Fencing Championship 2022 to seal the overall team championship title as the 8-day competition wrapped up on Thursday at SAI Indoor Hall, Takyel.
The Imphal East fencers added two individual gold and one silver medals on the last day of the championship to complete their whopping haul of 101 medals in the competition.
They emerged top finishers across all events - senior men and women, junior boys and girls, cadet boys and girls, sub-junior boys and girls, mini boys and mini girls - to lay their hands on the overall team championship trophy.
Imphal East finished with 389 points courtesy of their 40 gold, 27 silver and 34 bronze medals they collected over the course of the championship.
On the concluding day, Th Satish claimed the gold medal in the senior men's epee event while K Prithibiraj earned the top podium honour in the sub-junior boys' foil event, coupled with a silver (sub jr boys' foil) by N Ratankumar.
Imphal West finished a distant second with 83 points.
They bagged 12 gold, six silver and five bronze medals.
Senapati completed the top three with three gold, 13 silver and 11 bronze medals.