Udupi District Cycling Association members clinch gold and bronze at State-level event

Udupi District Amateur Cycling Association (UDACA), established recently, marked its inaugural quality astatine the 16th Karnataka State Level Road Cycling Competition by securing 1 golden and 1 bronze medal. The competition, held precocious successful Belagavi, besides saw the enactment of 3 UDACA cyclists for the upcoming national-level Road Cycling Competition.

In a statement, Association President and manager K. Gururaj said Gliona D’Souza demonstrated exceptional prowess successful the women’s unfastened contention by clinching the golden medal. In the men’s under-23 category, Hardik Rai secured the bronze medal, finishing 3rd successful a highly competitory field. Both Ms. D’Souza and Mr. Rai were selected to correspond Karnataka astatine the National-level Road Cycling Competition to beryllium held successful Orissa successful November.

Besides the two, Neel D’Souza was besides selected for the National-level Road Cycling Competition successful the men’s under-23 property category, said Dr. Gururaj. Beyond the medal winners, the UDACA team, comprising Srinidhi Urala, Deepak Kumar, Shubha, Darshil and Joshua Fernandes, garnered attraction for their performances successful the challenging competitory environment.

Mr. Hardik Rai has besides received the chiseled honour of representing Karnataka successful the National MTB Cycling Competition to beryllium held successful Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, aboriginal this month.

Besides Dr. Gururaj, squad manager and vice president Syed Mustafa Hasani, and treasurer and sports coordinator Deepak Kumar, were contiguous to enactment the squad and person the awards.

The awards ceremonial was attended among others by MLC Vivek Rao Patil, State Cycling Association President G.V. Patil and Secretary Sreeshaila M. Kurani.