The 31st sub-junior national kabaddi championship was played at the Mini Stadium Dineshpur in Udham Singh Nagar. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final were played across both boys and girls category. Haryana were the champions in both the categories. Here is a brief summary of the results.
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Boys
Haryana defeated Rajasthan in the final and were victorious in the boys' category. The two teams defeated Chattisgarh and Uttarakhand in the semi-final of the tournament. Rajasthan won the semi-final 43-39.
Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh were the top 8 teams but failed to make past the quarter-final stages of the tournament.
Delhi defeated 33-40 Uttarakhand and that was the closest quarter-final of the competition.
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Girls
Haryana were crowned champions in the girls category as they defeated Tamil Nadu 29-24. They defeated Uttar Pradesh 29-23 in the semi-final while Tamil Nadu got the better of Delhi by a slim margin of 2 points.
The quarter-finals were held earlier in the day as Haryana edged out Sports Authority of India by 31-32. Uttar Pradesh defeated Bihar 36-20 in the second quarter-final. Punjab and Uttarakhand were the other losing quarter-finalists.