BHUBANESWAR 22-Dec-2019
Swetaparna Panda made host Odisha proud by winning the U-15 mixed doubles gold medal with parter Sathwik Reddy K of Telangana in the Yonex-Sunrise 33rd National Sub-Junior Badminton Championship 2019 that concluded at the East Coast Railway Indoor Stadium here today.
This was the first National championship medal in for both Swetaparna and Sathwik, who beat third seeded Chandigarh-Haryana combination of Samarveer and Rijul Saini in the final 21-14, 21-8.
Odisha squandered another gold medal as Ayush Pattanayak and his partner Suhas V of Karnataka lost in the U-17 boys doubles final to Rajasthan pair of Himanshu Khatana of Shubham Patel by narrow margin.
