Double delight for Sanyukta Reddy

Kanpur: Sanyukta Reddy outplayed Aral Dwivedi 15-12, 15-9, while Mohd Yusuf drubbed Ayan Garg 15-13, 15-8 to win the U-19 girls' and boys' singles titles respectively at the 1st Cosco Kanpur District Badminton Championship, which concluded at the Green Park Stadium Badminton Hall on Sunday. Sanyukta Reddy, partnering with Aditri Katiyar, beat Ishika Singh and Mahak Gautam 15-11, 15-7 to claim the doubles crown as well. Ayush and Mohd Yusuf won the boys' doubles title, defeating Ayan Garg and Prakhar Maurya 15-12, 15-7. Meanwhile, Ayush and Aradhya pipped Prakhar and Aditri Katiyar 15-9, 15-9 to take the mixed doubles title. CDO Diksha Jain, Anubhav Singh, IPS, and Anjali Vishwaikarma gave away the prizes.Other winners: (U-17) Boy's (singles): Ramji Dubey, Ramji/Yash Tiwari (doubles); Girl's (singles) Aral Dwivedi (doubles) Aditri Katiyar/Anshika Gupta; Shreyas Shukla/Aradhya Yadav (Mixed doubles) (U-15) Boy's (singles): Kartik Shukla, Kartik/Priyanshu Ranjan (doubles); Girl's (singles) Sanvika Gupta (doubles) Anshika/Sanvika; Shreyas Shukla/Aradhya Yadav (Mixed doubles); (U-13) Girl's (singles) Shinaya Srivastava; Boy's (singles) Viraj Upadhyaya.Bench press championship: The Kanpur Division Powerlifting Open Bench Press and the second inter-school Bench Press Championship concluded at Seth Motilal Khedia Sanatan Dharam Inter College on Sunday. Winners (Men's): Gold: Shashwat Dubey, Siddharth Bhaskar, Vinayak Pandey, Rishabh Jaiswal, Pratyush Rathore, Manish, Ashish Kumar, Virat Bajpai, Ashish Kumar, Himanshu Nigam, Bhupendra Kumar, Shailendra Sharma. (Silver) Anshu Mala, Arpit Singh, Kshitiz Dwivedi, Tarun Verma, Abhivek Vishwakarma, Krishna Sharma, Krishna Rao, Mayank Gupta (Bronze) Utkarsh Sonkar, Altmash Alam, Aryan, Kshitiz Verma, Prakhar Gupta, Ansh Rawat, Himanshu Prajapati, Vinayak Pandey. (Women's): Ojal Bajpai, Siya Yadav, Sapana Bharti, Rishima Patel, Anju Pal, Ishita Yashasvi Singh, Priti Kamal, Abha Sharma. tnn