Inaugural edition of SFA Championships in Bengaluru kicks off today

Press Release

• 17-01-2024

Bengaluru, January 16th, 2024: Sports For All (SFA),  India's largest tech-enabled multi-sports school competition platform, today commenced with Bengaluru’s inaugural edition of the SFA Championships. With record participation of athletes across the state, SFA Championships aims to unveil the city’s best sporting talent, discover the ‘number one school in sports’, and enable a platform for future champions to compete on a professional platform.

Held at the Sports Authority of India Netaji Subhas Southern Centre, the venue's state-of-the-art infrastructure served as an ideal setting for athletes to showcase their skills, on day 1 of the SFA Championships. The impressive showcase of athleticism took center stage, highlighting the talent and determination of young athletes across categories U-14 to U-18. The Championships engaged both boys and girls, featuring a remarkable participation, with more than 500 athletes, on day 1. The competition witnessed sporting categories such as the long jump, high jump, shotput, races in 2000mtrs and 800mtrs, sprints in 100mtrs and 400mtrs,

SFA Championships is enabling an opportunity for youth to unleash their fullest potential through joyful and inspiring sporting experiences. These Championships are revolutionising the way school sports are experienced in India, giving school athletes first ever exposure to multi-sports. Resonating with this thought on the Athletics track, Siddhani Singh from Vahe Global Interschool (in the U-16 category), spoke about playing multi-sports. "Today at the SFA Championships I participated in the 100 metres race and it was an interesting start. I have been playing sports since I was 8years old and have played basketball, football, athletics - enjoying the diverse experiences each sport brings. One of my proud moments was competing at my first State regionals meet. Am looking forward to playing and competing as much as possible".

Results of Day 1

Sports: Athletics

Categories: U-16 Girls  High Jump

Gold: Yuvna Bhandari, Vidya Niketan School (1.40 mtr)

Silver: Tasha Sequeiara, Vidya Niketan School

Bronze: Dayaa Malolan Chetlur, Vidya Niketan School

Categories: U-16 Girls Long Jump

Gold: Ayana Vinod, Tattva School (4.43 mtr)

Silver: Tasha Sequeiara, Vidya Niketan School

Bronze: Elena Samuel, Global Indian School

Categories: U-14 Girls Long Jump

Gold: Raiyven Terceira, Stella Maries

Silver: Swarna Rekha, Prasiddhi School

Bronze: Ruthvi Battaswamy, Balwin School

Categories: U-16 Girls 800 mtr

Gold: Hridhi Hazel Sunil, St Zoseph's School (00:2:49:49)

Silver: Saanvi Singhai, Dps

Categories: U-16 Boys Long Jump

Gold: Agneya Global School (00:2:49:49)

Categories: U-16 Girls 2000 Mtr

Gold: Divya G, Holi Cross School (00:11:18:55)

Silver: Ishika Singh, Holi Cross School

Categories: U-16 Boys 800 Mtr

Gold: Roshan Joshus, Holi Cross school (00:02:30:28)

Silver: Arnav Chirayath, St Josep'h Boys High School

Bronze: Gowrav Jnana, Sweekar Public School

Categories: U-16 Boys 2000 Mtr

Gold: Rishabh Chellappa, The Cambridge School (00:10:21:52)

Silver:  Shreyas KR, St Ann's icse School

Categories: U-18 Boys 800 Mtr

Gold: Megharaj SV, Brv Public School (00:02:21:49)

Silver: Dhanush Kartik, Holi cross school

Bronze: Lakshya Punia, DPS

Categories: U-16 Boys 400m

Gold: Shriyans Jema, Delhi Public School Bangalore East (00:1:00:28)

Silver: Yashwanth H M, Holy Cross School Whitefield

Bronze: Atharv Anand, Delhi Public School Electronic City

Categories: U-18 Girls 100m

Gold: Kasturi Velankar, Delhi Public School Bangalore School (00:00:13:23)

Silver: Maithre Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udipi

Bronze: Naisha Talluri, Samsidh International Hsr Layout

Categories: U-14 Boys Shotput (4kg)

Gold: Anirudh C R, Delhi Public School Electronic City (6.90mtr)

Silver: Kushagra Saxena, Global Indian International School, Whitefield

Categories: U-16 Girls 400m

Gold: Sanvi Gururaj Chikkon, Delhi Public School Bangalore East (00:1:11:28)

Silver: Gauri Mulajkar, Ebenezer International School Bangalore East

Bronze: Ramona Kaur, Global Indian International School Whitefield

Categories: U-14 Girls Shotput

Gold: Roudi Kar, National Public School Whitefield

Silver: Ashita Budakoti, Global indian international school, Whitefield

Bronze: Sameeksha Suman Kumar Jha, Global Indian International School, Whitefield

Day 2 is set to kick off with football at the Padukone Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence, featuring talented young athletes in the U14, U16, and U18 categories. The daily schedule, detailed results of each sport's competition, will be available on – www.sfaplay.com. For real-time updates, highlights, and exclusive behind-the-scenes moments, follow our social media channels – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

SFA Championships is poised to make sports accessible for young athletes across the country, thereby empowering today’s talent to become the Champions of tomorrow.

About Sports For All (SFA)

Sports For All (SFA) is India's largest tech-enabled multi-sport grassroots competition platform. The vision is to make youth fall in love with sports through inspiring and joyful sporting experiences. Founders  Rishikesh Joshi and Vishwas Choksi, since the inception of SFA in 2015, have determinedly focused on transforming and mobilising school sporting championships in the country, by providing an inclusive, diverse, safe, and best-in-class platform for the youth to realize their fullest potential through sports.

SFA Championships, SFA’s flagship IP, brings forth the potential of large-scale multi-sporting competitions propelled by tech and data analytics. Being phygital in nature, the SFA Championships have today become the backbone of identifying sporting potential at the grassroots level. In 2023, SFA has pledged to encourage 2 lakh athletes to participate at 10 SFA Championships. This city-based model will be held across Indore, Dehradun, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Bangalore, Delhi and Ahmedabad (in this order), to determine the “number one school in sports”, in that city.

With a technology-led approach at its core, SFA enables the entire grassroots sport ecosystem via SFAPLAY.COM, a platform designed to empower and connect all stakeholders via statistics, data, analytics, match videos, content, performance management, and competition management systems.

SFA is the leading sports entrepreneurial venture empanelled with the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the “official partner” of the Indian Olympic Association, enabling support for Indian contingent to the Tokyo Olympics, 2020; Birmingham Commonwealth Games, 2022; Asian Games, 2022; and ‘official sponsors’ for Khelo India Youth Games (for the next five years). The 36th National Games, Gujarat, 2022, the 37th National Games, Goa, 2023 and editions of Khelo India Youth Games in Haryana, Pune, Guwahati, and Panchkula, were powered by SFA’s Tech IP ‘Games Management System’ (GMS).

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