The Uttar Pradesh team for the 9th National Kung Fu championship in Hyderabad Dec 29-31 was named Saturday.
UP Kung Fu Association general secretary G.P. Tripathi said that the championship will have 90 competitions for men and women and would include Sanda, Light Sanda, Taolu and Tui Shu.
Teams from 20 states including UP, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Mizoram, Jharkhand, Delhi, Maharashtra, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Bihar, Kerala and Telangana would participate in the national championship.
Six hundred sportspersons would partake in the competitions.
The UP squad includes Guddi Verma, Sunita Gautam, Pragya Tiwari, Shivangi Tripathi, Riya Srivastava, Khushi, Tejas Tiwari, Ashi Chaturvedi, Gaurav Pathak, Swapnil Kumar, Ankit Singh Chauhan, Aakash Yadav, Laky Singh, Vyom Singh Rawat, Aakash Kumar Anand, Vaibhav Tripathi, Prasoon Gupta, Robin Singh, Prajjwal Siddhartha, Umang Srivastava, Sandeep Gupta, Utkarsh Mishra, Avanish Gautam, Prateek Yadav, Shiv Sagar Yadav among others.
-- Indo-Asian News Service
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