Mangan lifts CM’s Gold Cup Archery Tournament 2012

GANGTOK, 22 April: Mangan has emerged as the champions of the 13th edition of the Chief Minister’s Gold Cup Archery Tournament- 2012 held at Sikkim Archery Association’s archery field here at Tathangchen.
In the final match played today, Mangan edged out Todey-Tangda by 56 points to 24 points. Mangan had reached the finals defeating Y12K Shooters in the semi-final, while in another semi-final Todey-Tandga had defeated Thimpu United.
Lakey Dorjee of Todey-Tangda was adjudged as the Man of the Tournament for his 52 targets in the tournament, while Gem Tshering of Mangan received the Man of the Final Match trophy for his 16 targets.
The tournament was organized by the Sikkim Archery Association [SAA] from 01 April. Seventeen teams from Bhutan, Kalimpong and different parts of the State had taken part in the tournament.
Sikkim Legislative Assembly Speaker, KT Gyaltsen was present as the chief guest of the final day and was accompanied by SAA president, PHE Minister, TT Bhutia and executive members of SAA.
In his address, Mr Gyaltsen stressed that in order to preserve the identity and existence of any community it was important to save language, culture and tradition. He urged the people to participate and work to preserve the culture, tradition and language through different activities. He congratulated the SAA for consistently conducting tournaments to save the traditional form of archery in the State.
SAA general secretary, Dr KB Gurung presented the annual report of the association.
On the occasion, SAA felicitated Tika Ram Regmi of Upper Samdong in East Sikkim for his contribution in promoting and preserving traditional archery in the State. He played for Snow Lion Club and Dacgayargay Club of Samdong from 1985 to 2009 and at present, he is the coach of the oldest and renowned club of Samdong, Snow Lion Club.
The chief guest handed over the trophies, cash prizes, medals and certificates to winners and runners-up teams and other individual winners. The winning team received Rs 60,000, while Rs 30,000 was awarded to the runner-up team.
The final day also saw cultural presentations by artists of Thonglay Dranyang Company of Phuentsholing, Bhutan and Hamro Pariwar of Decheling.
The first edition of the tournament was lifted by Tadong team in 2000 followed by Ranka for two consecutive times in 2001 and 2002 and in 2003 Pedong from Kalimpong lifted the tournament. Todey-Tangda won the tournament for three consecutive times from 2004 to 2006 and then Ranka again became the champions in 2007. Kabi-Lungchok took the champions title in 2008 and 2009 which was bagged by Tathangchen in 2010. Bhutan United was the champion of the last edition of the tournament.

17 teams sign up for CM’s Gold Cup Archery

GANGTOK, 21 March: A total of 17 teams from across the State and Bhutan will be taking part in the 13th Chief Minister’s Gold Cup Archery Tournament scheduled to begin here at the Sikkim Archery Association’s archery field at Tathangchen on 01 April.
Thirteen teams from the four districts and four teams from Bhutan, including the defending champions, Bhutan United, will be in contest for the prestigious Cup to played in traditional format on knock-out basis.
The fixture for the tournament was drawn on 18 March at the SAA office in the presence of the president, executive members and captains and representatives of the participating teams.
Tathangchen United [Red] will take on Gangtok VII in the inaugural match. The finals of the tournament will be played on 22 April.
The participating teams are already here and are practicing hard at the SAA archery field.

Bhutan United out-shoots Penden Cement to lift CM’s archery Gold Cup

GANGTOK: Bhutan United lifted the twelfth edition of the Chief Minister’s Archery Gold Cup today, outplaying fellow archers from Bhutan, Penden Cement at the Sikkim Archery Association archery field at Tathangchen.
In a very tightly played final match, Bhutan United emerged victorious 42-38.
The final match had Speaker, Sikkim Legislative Assembly, KT Gyaltsen, as the chief guest, accompanied by the Sports Minister, NK Pradhan, as the guest of honour, and PHE Minister, TT Bhutia, who is also the SAA president.

All-Bhutan finals for CM’s Archery Gold Cup

GANGTOK, 24 April: Two teams from Bhutan will take on each other in the final match of the 12th Chief Minister’s Gold Cup Archery Tournament here at the Sikkim Archery Association [SAA] archery field on Monday.
The final match will be played between Bhutan United [Pheuntsoling] and Penden Cement [Gomtu]. Bhutan United defeated Kabi-Lungchok, 50-34, in the semi-final match, while in other semi-final match Penden Cement beat Tathangchen Dapen, 54-10.
The final match will have the Speaker, Sikkim Legislative Assembly, KT Gyaltsen, as the chief guest, while Sports and Youth Affairs Minster, NK Pradhan, will attend as the guest of honour.

CM’s Archery Gold Cup begins

GANGTOK, 10 April: The twelfth edition of the Chief Minister’s Gold Cup Archery Tournament was inaugurated by the Speaker, Sikkim Legislative Assembly, KT Gyaltsen, on Saturday at Sikkim Archery Association archery field, Tathangchen. The inaugural match was played between Sichey and Navey, which the former won 56-30.
The spectators were expecting Sichey to finish the game before lunch break, given their good start, but a good came back by Navey’s archers breathed life into the contest even though the eventually lost.
The inaugural match was also attended by the PHE Minister, TT Bhutia, who is also the SAA president, and former MLA, Kunga Zangpo Bhutia among others.