Governor's Cup: KHFA fencers seal overall championship title
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 20 2021: KHFA emerged as the overall team champions of the 17th Governor's Cup State Level Fencing Championship 2021, which drew to a close on Wednesday.
The KHFA fencers collected 36 medals across mini, cadet, sub-junior, junior and senior events over the course of the championship to script a memorable triumph.
Their medal haul included 10 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze.
The side's trio of N Tuphan, Th Satish and Th Chabi made a clean sweep of the three gold medals on offered in the senior men's competition.
Tuphan topped the foil event, Satish won the epee event and Chabi claimed top podium honours of the sabre event.
In the junior category, L Abi took the gold medal in the girls' sabre event while Nancy N secured the gold medal in the cadet girls sabre event.
On the other hand, the gold medallists in the sub-junior event were Zenith (epee) and M Deniel (sabre), both in the boys' category.
In the mini group, KHFA claimed four gold medals courtesy of Tamnganba (boys' foil), Lanchenba N (boys' sabre), Rashina N (girls' foil) and Payal N (girls' sabre) .