Mohali, November 20 - Senior Coach Darshan Singh's players, who have been providing free training in various sports to people of all ages for the past several years at City Park in Sector-68, Mohali, performed brilliantly in the 46th Masters Athletics Championship held in Chandigarh. They have made their coach and Mohali city proud by winning various sports competitions on the previous day.
It is worth noting that Coach Darshan Singh in Mohali, who is trying to make children of all ages healthy, participate in maximum sports and stay away from drugs, has so far provided free training to many players and children and many children have participated in state-level games. According to Coach Darshan, seven players from his team came to participate in the competition held in Chandigarh and all of them have medals.
He said that among his players, Dr. Archana Gupta won a gold medal in the 200 meter race, a silver medal in the 800 meter race in the above 60 age group; While Gurjit Singh Walia won a silver medal in Javelin Throw and a bronze medal in Discus Throw in the senior age group. Poonam won gold in 100 meter race, silver in 800 meter race while Geeta won gold medals in 400 and 200 meter race. Similarly, Satish Kumar also won bronze medals in 400 meter race and discus throw in the 40+ age group. Similarly, Vijaypal won silver medal in 400 meter race.
Coach Darshan Singh said that to boost the morale of the players, he himself participates in sports competitions and guides his players. Darshan Singh said that he has also won bronze medals in two sports competitions.
He said that it is often seen that coaches practice with very few players during practice. While they try not to leave the field even for a day and stay connected with the players in every practice so that the players get ready quickly and their interest in participating in sports competitions increases.
All the players who have won medals in various sports say that they practice daily under the chairmanship of Coach Darshan Singh and without paying any fee. They said that Darshan Singh has set up a sports academy in the name of DSA Mohali, but no fee is charged from anyone. The players said that they will continue to participate in sports in the future and will continue to bring glory to their coach and their city Mohali.