Wynberg-Allen lifts the Overall Championships in the 23rd Inter-School Invitational Athletics Meet 2024.

Mussoorie

Wynberg-Allen School, Mussoorie hosted the “The 23rd Inter-School Invitational Athletics Meet -2024”. The guest of honour on the occasion was  Anil Raturi, IPS, Former Director General of Police, Uttarakhand.. A number of schools from Dehradun, Mussoorie and surrounding areas took part in the meet. Besides the host the other schools which took part in the meet this year included Oak Grove School, Mussoorie, Hopetown Girl’s School, The Oasis School, Welham Boys’ School and St. Jude’s School from dehradun.The meet started with an impressive march past by the athletes to the marching tunes played by the Wynberg-Allen Bagpipe Band. Mr. Ajay Mark, an alumnus took the salute for the march past.The Meet was declared open by Mr Mark after the march past. A number of new records were created during the meet in tough competitions..

Aarav Singh of Welham Boys’ School created a new record in 800 m with the timing of 02:14:81 s. Navya Vohra of Hopetown Girls School created a new record in the 100 m girls event with the timing of 13:40 s.

Wynberg Alle relay team consisting sheen yunas, hiranya jain, nandini choudhary and paridhi upadhayay created a new record in 4 x 100 m senior girl’s relay with the timing of 59:02 s.

Ayush Gupta, Aaliya Joseph, Dravika Jain, Sanvi Nayak and Sheen Yunas of Wynberg-Allen School, Shivam Kumar, Grantha Arora of Oak Grove School, Aarav Singh and Siddhant Aggarwal of Welham Boys’ School and Manvendra Purohit of St. Jude’s School were declared the promising athletics in the meet.

The following athletes were declared individual champions in their respective divisions:

Sumiyah Taslim, Harsh raj soni, Shivyana KC, Arnav Prakash of Wynberg-Allen School, Aditya Singh, and Priya Kumari of Oak Grove School, Navya Vohra of Hopetwon Girl;’s school and Aaditya Nitin Kumar of Welham Boys’ School were awarded the individual championship in their respective divisions. Navya Vohra of Hopetwon Girl;’s school  and Bolli Vishwa of Wynberg Allen School were declared the fastest sprinters of the meet, in the girl’s and boy’s division respectively. The athletes of St. Jude’s School were awarded the cake for showing exemplary sportsmanship and participation.

Wynberg-Allen was declared the overall champions in both Boy’s and Girl’s categories. Mr. Raturi awarded the certificates and trophies to the winners. Principal, Wynberg-Allen Mr. Leslie Tindale congratulated all the winners and thanked all officials’ especially. Mr. Champa Dhakpa, Mr. Jagmohan Negi, Mr. Tashi Tsering, Mr. Tsering Dhondup, Mr. Sanjay Hatwal, Mr. Ajit Kumar, Mr Jaswant Rathore, Ms Palpasha Gurung, Ms Annu Kataria and Ms Choying Bhutia for successfully conducting the meet. Besides the alumni and coaches from participating schools, Shadab Alam, Rohit Mehta, Arun Sharma, Abhay Singh, Divyani Rawat, a large number of dignitaries were also present on the occasion.