Youth table tennis: AVM's Rubin, Ivana win gold

Rasin Maharjan and Ivana Thapa of AVM Table Tennis Club won gold medals at the Nepal Youth Table Tennis Championship on Wednesday.

Maharjan won the U-21 boys' title and Thapa the U-21 girls' singles title. In the boys' singles event at the competition held at the National Table Tennis Training Center in Lainchaur, Kathmandu, Nepal Police's Gananjaya Dahal finished second. Samir Khatri of Vision Table Tennis Club and Rizan Shakya of Yal Table Tennis shared third place.

In the girls' singles, AVM's Bianca Rai finished second, while Asma Pahari and Saira Shakya shared third place. In the U-17 boys' singles, AVM's Prajwal Bhattarai won gold and Yal's Rizan Shakya took silver. In the same event, Nischal Thapa of Stag Champions Club and Rivanmuni Bajracharya of Yal shared bronze.

According to organizer Nepal Table Tennis Pvt. Ltd, six events were held over the two-day competition. Earlier, Saira Shakya won gold in the U-13 and U-17 girls' singles, and Rivanmuni Bajracharya won gold in U-13 boys' singles. Winners were awarded by National Sports Council member-secretary Ramcharitra Mehta, Chief Advisor to the Ministry of Education and Sports Siddhi Vyanjankar, and council executive committee member Sikka Suwal Shrestha, among others. Organizers said the total prize money for the competition was 200,000 rupees.