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]]>The franchise-based tournament titled ‘Aadhi Aabadi Women’s Volleyball League’ is a joint initiative of the Nepal Volleyball Association (NVA) and Aadhi Aabadi Foundation, an India-based NGO.
The first edition of the tournament, a round robin league, has been scheduled for October 1-6, 2018.
The first league will see the participation of three departments such as Nepal Police Club, Tribhuvan Army Club and Armed Police Force (APF), along with other teams-Kathmandu Queens, Chitwan Tigress and Pokhara Pinkage.
Each of these teams can sign four overseas players and can only field three at a time.
According to NVA General Secretary Jeetendra Bahadur Chand, the tournament will be offering a whopping cash prize of Rs 600,000 to the champions, Rs 300,000 to the runners-up, Rs 1.5 lakh for the third position, and a bike along with Rs 50,000 cash for the ‘best player’.
Taking Forward
NVA President Manoranjan Raman Sharma and the Aadhi Aabadi CEO Dinesh Kumar Singh signed a MoU for organizing the tournament for 10 years.
Under the deal, NVA will get Rs 1.5 million annually and the Foundation will also offer budgetary support through various sponsors to run the tournament, besides providing sports kits such as mats, referee stand and pole cover.
Singh informed that they are organizing the tournament considering the sport’s potential in Nepal and hoped that the tournament will offer needed boost to Nepal’s volleyball players.
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]]>According to the Nepal Martial Self-Defense Association (NMSDA) Central Chair DB Ranapal from Morocco, the martial arts tournament saw Nepali martial arts team members Arjun Rokka of Solukhumbu and Sanju Maharjan bagging two gold and silver medals each.
The championship was organized by the Martial Self-Defense International Association Portugal in Morocco.
The seven-member Nepali team includes Ranapal and first Vice-Chair Nutan Shrestha, among others.
Meanwhile, the Tribhuvan Army Club (TAC) also won the recently-held eighth Korean Ambassador Open National Taekwondo Tournament.
The Taekwondo championship held at the Nepal Taekwondo Academy, Lalitpur saw TAC winning nine gold, four silver and 12 bronze medals.
While a total of five gold, two silver and six bronze medals were registered under the men’s category, the women’s category saw four gold, two silver and six bronze winners.
Nepal Police Club made it to the second position in the tournament bagging three gold and a silver medal in men’s category, and three gold, a silver and two bronze medals in the women’s category.
Nepal Taekwondo Association Vice-presidents Bhoj Bahadur Shah and Nandu Rai, and the National Sports Council Vice-president Lama Tendi Sherpa were present at the award ceremony.
This Taekwondo championship was jointly organized by the Nepal Taekwondo Association and South Korean Embassy in Nepal.
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