Inaugural Ceromany of Sport Event Essay

The Sixth National Games kicked off in Dhangadi of Kailali district in Far-Western region on 28th of February 2012. President Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated the Sixth National Games amid a special function at Dhangadi Stadium. President Yadav urged players to elevate patriotism and brotherhood through sports. Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Finance Minister Barsa Man Pun and other ministers also attended the openingceremony. Before the inauguration of the event, players from different districts had performed various pageantries. Earlier, Nepal’s Olympian Dipak Bista had lit the cauldron of Sixth National Games at the Dhangadhi stadium. A team of former Olympians had carried the flame to Dhangadhi stadium all the way from Buddha’s birth place Lumbini. Altogether 3,619 players with 1,940 officials from five development regions, Nepal Police Club, Armed Police Force Club, PLA Club of Maoist combatants and a university team had participated in the march-past that featured during the opening ceremony. The games were held in Dhangadhi, Mahendranagar and Tikapur in the far-western region . Altogether 10 gold medals were decided on the first day of the sixth national games today. The first gold medal of the game was grabbed by Ajay Pandit Chhetri in Cycling. Pandit finished first in the national mountain bike tournament held at Dhulikhel of Kavre , after completing the stipulated distance in 2 hours 1 minute and 18 seconds. Raj kumar shrestha and Narayan Gopal Maharjan won silver and bronze in the same even respectively. Likewise in women’s category of the same event, Nirjala Tamrakar bagged gold after completing the distance in 1 hour 53 minutes and 59 seconds. The silver and broze went to Laxmi Magar and Sita Rimal respectively. Meawhile in Birgunj 8 gold medals were decided in various swimming events. 13 years old Shirish Gurung of central region won gold in the 400 meter freestyle while Shailesh Rana and Prabesh Adhikari came out second and third respectively. In the women’s category of the 200 meter freestyle, Shaila Rana bagged gold while Shreya Dhital and Oshin Bharati bagged silver and bronze respectively. In Men’s event of 200 meter back stroke, the result came out in favor of Shailesh Rana while silver and bronze went to Babin Shrestha and Shirish Gurung respectively. Karishma Karki bagged gold, Shaila Rana silver and Manisha Bista bronze in the women’s event of the same category. Shailesh Rana, yet again added two more golds under his belt later in the event of 200 metre back stroke and the 100 metre butterfly. The Women’s event of these two categories had Shreya Dhital claiming 2 more golds as swimmers from the Central region completely dominatedthecontest. The event which continued till March 4 which featured altogether 32 games — 13 games were organised in Dhangadi, 12 in Mahendranagar of Kanchanpur and the remaining were organised in Kathmandu, Nepalgunj and Birgunj due to lack of infrastructures in the Kailali and Kanchanpur districts. Athletes and players from all five development regions of the coutnry are participated in the national sporting extravaganza.