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The karatekas of Sattari, Bicholim and Pernem talukas bagged as many as 48 medals (12 gold, 14 silver and 22 bronze) in the State level karate championships conducted among karatekas of the Okinawa Marshal Arts Academy Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra States held at Ponda indoor stadium, Ponda.
In various events, Sahil Priolkar, Sahil Kande, Sakshi Pednekar, Anis Khan, Raman Nilajkar, Vipanjit Singh, Chaitanyajiwan, Pragati Malik, Vipul Dhargalkar, Grugandha Damsekar won gold medals. While, Ashvet Pilgaonkar, Dattesh Mainkar, Antarish Mulgaonkar, Shriram Kalogi, Sajana Gaonkar, Tanisha Bhatkar, Yash Avkhale, Dattaraj Chodankar, Deepraj Gawas, Sainjal Kalnekar, Prashant Jadhav, Krishna Goel and Bhudhaji Hass Purkar clinched silver. The bronze medals were awarded to: Fatish Thakur, Pawan Milade, Swejal Gaude, Harshali Thakur, Anisha Meshri, Ankasha Kaloji, Anushka Bhagat, Jayant Dable, Arthav S, Yeth Rajput, Ayush Pednekar, Kartik Panshikar, Tushar Kansekar, Deo Kansekar, Manesh Katod, Jaison D'Souza, Rishi Harmalkar, Vinayak Prabhu, Vedant Gawas, Sakshi Pednekar, Krishna Deel Naik and Mandhan Naik.
All the karatekas were trained by chief instructor Vishnu Naik.
