Shillong, July 23: Karate is truly on the up and up in Meghalaya, with a new record of 802 karatekas from 126 schools having signed up for this year’s 32nd State Level Inter School Karate Tournament 2026, which began here on Thursday.
The three-day championship is being organised by the All Meghalaya Karate-Do Association (AMKA) with the steadfast support of the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs.
The event is once again being hosted at the Multipurpose Indoor Hall at the Sports Authority of India centre on the NEHU Shillong campus.
Last year there were 748 entrants from 104 schools. St Anthony’s Higher Secondary School are the defending champions in the boys’ division and Auxilium Girls’ Higher Secondary School in the girls’ division. With the 39th National Games, which Meghalaya will host, less than a year away, the state’s karatekas have been engaged in rigorous training for the mega event and some of the older students in this tournament are sure to be in the running for the National Games if karate is included among the disciplines. AMKA also used this opportunity to felicitate two karatekas who brought glory to Meghalaya at the recent South Asian Karate Championship in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Daniel Dabiangbha Warjri won a gold medal in the Boys’ Junior -68kg Kumite category, while Gideon Tympuin bagged a bronze in the Men’s U-21 Individual Kata.
