Empower girls in rural India to be Champions

The Mann Deshi Champions Elite Athlete Program’s goal has been to help majorities of young women athletes from NT/ SC/OBC/STs.Improves their achievement in sports and builds a positive self-image.  Provides training in track, wrestling, swimming, badminton, field hockey and prepares its participants for the competition through physical fitness regimens and personal development workshops. The standard curriculum: Physical sports-related training. Training is 3 to 5 hrs including experts’ sessions and visits from guest coaches in the industry, individual sports training, field trips, and opportunities to speak on the Mann Deshi Community Radio. The program provides nutritious meals and proteins. The program offers Gym, a Swimming pool, a 400m track, a Wrestling arena, etc. The program also provides physiotherapy and nutrition sessions. The Mann Deshi Champions Elite Program has about over 300 athletes enrolled. At least 15 athletes compete at the National and International among those enrolled.

Following are the achievements of the athletes at various levels in Sports.

• 75 athletes are trained for state and national level competition in wrestling and track and field
• Mumtaz, Shanur, Jyoti are trained for state-level competition in wrestling
• Harshad is trained for National Level competition in wrestling
• Sourabh and Vishal won Gold Medal at the zone level Wrestling Competition.
• Vaibhav and Amol won the Silver medal at the zone wrestling competition.
• Ganesh won a Bronze medal in the state Wrestling competition.
• Shanur and Ganesh won Gold Medal in the Greek-Roman Selection Trial Competition and were selected for state-level competition.

Track and Field

• Shivani is trained for running for state and national level competitions.
• Dada is training for the 3 and 5 km running state-level competition.
• Nishant is training for the National level competition of 1500 and 3000 meters running.
• Arya and Sameera are training for 600m running for school games.
• Nishant won the gold medal in Khanapur of the 5km Marathon.
• Arya won 1^st prize in Kole Marathon for 2km, Reshma won a gold medal for 6 km, and Vaishnavi placed 6^th.
• Vaishnavi: Won gold medal in 3000 m steeplechase 1st National under 23 athletes Championship 2021 at Nashik.
• Satish: Won gold medal in discus throw 1st National under 23 athletes Championship 2021 at Nashik.
• Vaishnavi: (15-19 Sep) Placed 5th in national level steeplechase in Telangana and (27-29 Sep) Placed 4th in national level steeplechase in Delhi.
• Sneha: Won silver medal in the hammer throw in National level competition at Delhi.
• Arya and Snehal got selected in the khelo India Training center.

Success story:

Sneha, Daughter of a farmer and a housewife. She was the only daughter in her family. There was no sports background in Sneha’s family. Sneha is a very hardworking and courageous girl living in a small village. She dreams of winning a gold medal for team India in the hammer throw. Sneha used to practice in the morning and evening two hours sessions each. Her mother’s wish is that Sneha should be an independent girl. Sneha got selected for Hammer throw in young Asian games in Thailand in May 2017. There she secured 6th place. She has a record of 12 National medals on her name as well as she has been selected twice for the international level.