(From left): India Round team for Nagaland, Edikuno Rikha and Nikesa Sakhrie.
Kohima, March 30 (MExN): Despite falling to win any medals at the 41st NTPC Senior National Archery Championship, JMU J&K, six archers will be in contention to win medals as they qualified for the upcoming Goa National Games scheduled to be held in November this year.
A total of 18 archers from Nagaland took part in the Championship for Indian Round, Recurve and Compound division.
Edikuno Rikha and Nikesa Sakhrie entered into 1/16 in individual elimination round to qualify for the national games and men team for Indian Round namely Nukho Lohe, Pradeep, KK Singh and Rumbahadur Thapa enter 1/4 to qualify for the team for the national games.
In 70 mtrs women, Edikuno Rikha was ranked Top-17 for recurve division, while Nikesa Sakhrie was ranked 32nd for 50 mtrs women compound division.
The championship was organised by Archery Association of J&K under the aegis of Archery Association of India and J&K Sports Council. A total of 1015 participants from 42 teams from different States/UT/ Boards of the country including international Archers participated in the championship.
The team was lead by Hunezo Thisa, Jr State Archery Coach as manager and Chekrovolu Swuro, Olympian And Arjuna awardee as the Team Coach.
Team coach Swuro expressed her joy with the performance of the state archers in the national championship adding that the team had fared much better comparing to the previous years. She said the selected archers now have medal prospect as they have more than six months of training until the national games begin.
