{"id":4685,"date":"2025-11-17T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:22:08","slug":"chhattisgarh-recreates-history-retains-all-india-forest-sports-meet-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/?p=4685","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh Recreates History, Retains All India Forest Sports Meet Crown*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TFP Bureau, Raipur, November 17, 2025: Chhattisgarh has once again created history in the All India Forest Sports Meet. With a stellar performance, Chhattisgarh secured first place in the medal tally at the 28th All India Forest Sports Meet held in Dehradun. Chhattisgarh won the championship for the second consecutive year with 150 medals and 578 points. Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai and Forest Minister Shri Kedar Kashyap congratulated all the players and teams who performed exceptionally well in the competition and wished them continued excellence in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that the 28th All India Forest Sports Meet was held in Dehradun from November 12th to 17th. Chhattisgarh won first place in this competition, winning 74 gold, 34 silver, and 42 bronze medals. A total of 253 members from Chhattisgarh participated in the event. Chhattisgarh players also delivered several outstanding individual performances. Among these, Best Male Athlete Nikhil Zalko won five gold medals in swimming, Best Female Athlete Sangeeta Rajagopalan won four gold medals and one silver medal in badminton and tennis, and Best Athlete Women\u2019s Open Thota Sankirtana won five gold medals, earning the title of \u201cGolden Girl.\u201d Similarly, Best Athlete (Male Veteran) Sukhnandan Lal Dhruv won five gold medals, and Best Athlete (Female Veteran) Charulata Gajpal won four gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>Chhattisgarh won the overall championship trophy for the 13th consecutive time. At the closing ceremony of this sports competition, Uttarakhand Governor Lieutenant General (Retired) Mr Gurmeet Singh and Uttarakhand Forest Minister Mr Subodh Uniyal jointly presented the overall championship trophy. Ms. Shalini Raina received the trophy on behalf of Chhattisgarh. Additional Chief Secretary Mrs. Richa Sharma and Forest Force Chief Mr. V. Srinivas Rao congratulated and wished all the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala secured second place in the All India Forest Sports Competition with 31 gold medals. Karnataka took third place with 25 gold medals, while host Uttarakhand finished sixth. A special initiative was also taken to connect this competition with environmental protection. Under the concept of \u201cOne Sport, One Forest,\u201d a tree was planted in the name of each medal winner, thus giving the athletes a message of nature conservation along with sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**State Tops With 150 Medals, Lifts Overall Trophy for 13th Straight Year<\/p>\n<p>*CM Vishnu Deo Sai, Forest Minister Kedar Kashyap Hail Athletes for Record-Breaking Feat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,118,117],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-chhattishgarh","category-state","tag-cmho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chhattisgarh Recreates History, Retains All India Forest Sports Meet Crown* - 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