India’s Sadia Tariq came up with a brilliant performance to win the gold medal in the Moscow Wushu Stars Championship which is being held in the Russian capital from February 22 to 28.
Sadia Tariq, who hails from Srinagar, is a two-time gold medalist in the Junior National Wushu championship. Sadia won the gold medal in the Wushu Championship in Moscow by defeating a local favourite at the event, which is the approved event in the Annual Calendar Training and Competition of the Sports Authority of India.
The Junior and Senior India team is participating in the championship. Sadia is from Srinagar and recently secured a Gold medal in the 20th Junior National Wushu Championship at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, in which Jammu and Kashmir Wushu team remained overall 3rd in the Medal Tally. She had recently bagged Gold medals in the 19th and 20th Junior National Championship which was held in Haryana and Jalandhar respectively.
It was her mother’s and her own dream to represent herself on an international platform and she fulfilled her dream by bagging a gold medal on the International platform. The National Chief Coach Of India, Mr. Kuldeep Handoo encouraged her and supported her and helped her to fulfill her dream. Credit goes to her coaches who also inspired and worked hard to help her to reach new heights.
Earlier in the day, former Sports Minister and Athens Olympics medalist Rajyavardhan Rathore took to social media and laud the gold-winning effort from Sadia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also took to social media to wish the young Wushu champion.
