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A 26-member Odisha squad bagged a total of nine medals in the KAI Junior, Sub-junior and Cadet National Karate Championships, which concluded at Talkotara Indoor Stadium in Delhi on 1. According to a press release from Odisha State Karate-do Association, the medals included four silver and five bronze.
Payal Baral was most successful among them, securing one silver each in cadet girls` kata and fight categories. Other two silver medals were claimed by Kushal Bhatt in under-10 boys` kata and Alok Agnibesh Moharana in cadet boys` fight events.
Odisha garnered four individual bronze medas through Sagariak Patra (u-8 girls` kata), Bonali Das (u-10 girls` kata), Praveen Kumar (u-12 boys` kata) and Debabrata Yadav (u-21 boys` kata). Basudev Pradhan, Smruti Ranjan Palo and Souvik Mandal picked up the other bronze in boys` team kata.
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PHOTO: Odisha karatekas display their medals in Bhubaneswar on June 4, 2014.
