National Games-2025: Himachal women’s kabaddi team overcomes Haryana hurdle, wins gold for 3rd time in a row

The squad had besides clinched a golden medal successful the National Kabaddi Championship-2024.

The squad played nether the captaincy of Pushpa Rana, 26, who is from Millah colony astatine Shillai successful Sirmaur district.

She was a subordinate of the Indian Kabaddi squad which won golden successful the 19th Asian Games held successful China successful 2022.

Jyoti Rana, 27, 1 of the champion raiders of the women’s team, is from Jakhed colony adjacent Kandaghat successful Solan district. Jyoti Rana was besides a subordinate of the Indian Kabaddi squad which participated successful the 19th Asian Games successful China. “All of america are from antithetic parts of Himachal Pradesh. I americium the lone 1 from Solan district, Pushpa is from Sirmaur.

Many others are from Chamba, Kinnaur, Mandi and different districts. We person been trained astatine antithetic sports centres for the past galore years. I started playing kabaddi erstwhile I was 14. I beryllium to a elemental family. My begetter is simply a operator and parent is simply a housewife. I americium besides pursuing my masters successful Hindi language,” she said.

Jyoti Rana had undergone a genu country successful March 2024. She was advised to instrumentality remainder for astir 8 months but she attended grooming sessions 4 months aft the surgery.

Kabaddi manager Gopal Dasta said, “Many of our women kabaddi players who participated successful the National Games-2025 were besides selected for the India camp, a national-level grooming people for a selective radical of kabaddi players this year. All these women players are from agrarian backgrounds and playing kabaddi for the past seven-eight years.

Four of them, including skipper Pushpa Rana, are being trained astatine the Sports Authority of India (SAI)’s Dharamshala centre successful Kangra district. The women kabaddi squad of Himachal Pradesh has been doing highly good astatine the nationalist and planetary level for the past galore years.”

“It is for the 3rd clip that our women’s kabaddi won the golden successful the National Games. India’s 8 champion teams, which performed good during the National Kabaddi Championship-2024, participated successful the National Games-2025 successful Uttarakhand. Except for 2 squad members, each kabaddi players successful our squad are those who were the members of the squad which had won golden successful the Senior National Kabaddi Games successful 2024. Most of the women players are from 2 centres of Sports Authority of India (SAI) successful Dharamshala and Bilaspur, and Nalagarh’s Khelo India Centre,” said Raj Kumar Bharanta, president of the State Kabaddi Federation.

Himachal Pradesh bushed Haryana with 27-22 points. Himachal Pradesh entered the last aft defeating Rajasthan and Haryana defeated Maharashtra successful the semi-final matches.

The 8 participating teams were from Haryana, Punjab, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. The players successful Himachal Pradesh squad were Sakshi Sharma, Jyoti, Shagun, Shivani, Jaspreet, Anshul, Champa and Bhavna. Team manager Gopal Dasta said that the raiding skills of Sakshi Sharma, Jyoti, Pushpa and Bhavna did fantabulous enactment during the tournament.

Two women players triumph medals successful Wushu

Two women players of the authorities won bronze successful Wushu successful Uttarakhand. Madhu Devi won bronze successful the Wushu Sanda category. Player Divya Rana won bronze successful Taolu Qiangshu lawsuit of Wushu.