Martial Arts

Shillong, Mar 15: Four Jeet Kune Do fighters from Meghalaya won gold medals at a world championship meet in Sri Lanka from 10th to 12th March. The four are Francis RR Songthiang (60kg) and Lorenza Songthiang (54kg), both of Laitkor...

Shillong, Feb 18: Table tennis became the first discipline at the Meghalaya Games 2019-20 to conclude its events, with more than 50 medals distributed at the medal ceremony at U Tirot Sing Syiem Indoor Stadium here today. The finals of...

Shillong, May 1: Athletes from around the state have started to converge on Shillong for the start of the 4th Meghalaya Games 2022. Athletes of the 19 different disciplines have been training hard for the mega sports extravaganza and all their...

Shillong, Mar 28: Meghalaya won 10 gold medals, plus a rich crop of 10 silver and 10 bronze, at the WAKO India National Kickboxing Federation Cup in Pune. The tournament ran from 24th March and concluded today. Eight Meghalaya kickboxers...

Shillong, Mar 6: The Meghalaya Wushu Association has expressed its happiness for martial artist Lamphrang Kharsahnoh, who has been inducted into the Assam Rifles through his exploits in wushu. Kharsahnoh won a bronze medal in wushu for Meghalaya in the...

Shillong, Jul 22: The Meghalaya kickboxing team bagged an impressive 14 medals at the WAKO India Senior National Kickboxing Championship, which was held in Haryana from 18th to 21st July. For the first time in seven years Hame Shaniah Suiam could...

Shillong, Sep 11: The Directorate of Sports & Youth Affairs will conduct hearings into the allegations of misappropriation made by parents of young karatekas against the Meghalaya School of Martial Arts and its related Meghalaya State Karate-Do Federation towards...

Shillong, Sep 11: Two Meghalaya kickboxers – Ibadarishisha Mukhim and Nathaniel Pynbianglang Kurkalang – will represent India at the WAKO Cadets & Juniors World Kickboxing Championship 2018, which will run from 15th to 23rd September in Venice, Italy. A small send-off function...

Shillong, Aug 22: Two martial artists from the Muay Thai Association of Meghalaya won medals at the recent IFMA Youth World Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia earlier this month. In all, five fighters from the state took part - Mary...

Shillong, Mar 19: The Ferdy School of Martial Arts' students won 22 medals between them at the 19th Meghalaya State Level Wushu Championship 2022 last week. The championship had been held in Madanrting, here, and was organised by the Meghalaya...