Kolkata: Oorja Samanta, a grade three student of Griffins International School, won two gold medals in the Second East India Karate Championship, recently held in Utkal Karate School, Bhubaneswar, hosted by Odisha State Karate Do Association, says a press release.
Oorja Samanta participated in 8 years Sub-Junior female category Individual Kata event and for Individual Kumite event she took part in 23+ Kg weight category. Oorja won Gold Medal in both the events.
Earlier she qualified for the zonal event as the state champion from Odisha. More than 300 competitors took part in this East Zone Karate championship in different categories from West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattishgarh, Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Island. The winners and the runners up of different events are qualified to participate in the national level competition to be held in Delhi next month.
Somnath Samanta, father of Oorja, said, “This is a very happy moment for us. We…