NEW DELHI:
Krishna Raj Singh Jadon
bagged 13 medals at the Uttar Pradesh Horse Show (UPHS) and Noida Horse Show (NHS), which were part of the recently concluded
National Equestrian
Tent Pegging Championship held at
Gautam Buddha University
from March 5-10.
He won gold medals in trot carrot and
peg
(UPHS and NHS both), mounted stick and wall race in UPHS in pole bending (UPHS and NHS both) and balloon bursting (UPHS).
Jadon said, "It feels great to have so many medals as I was training hard for this game for months and I feel that my hard work & confidence paid me off with such a big token of happiness. Really happy and I look forward to continuing this form & performing well in future events."
The National Equestrian Championship was organised by the Equestrian Federation of India in association with Equiwings Sports.
A total of 148 Indian riders and more than 170 horses participated at the national championship.
Tent Pegging is a sport that features a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and uses a sword or a lance to pierce pickup and carry away a small ground target symbolic of a tent peg.
Tent Pegging was included as an official sport by
Olympic Council of Asia
in 1982 and is an International schedule game now.
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