Nation First News: At the age of just 6, Samikhya Nanda from Dhenkanal won a Gold & a Silver medal at the National Taekwondo Championship organised by the Taekwondo Federation of India in Lucknow recently.
Ealeiler, she had won a Gold and Silver at the State Level Taekwondo Championship in Bhadrak to qualify for the Nationals.
Samikhya used to practice for 5-6 hours per day under her Coach Soumyakanta Beura of ‘Traditional Taekwondo Dojang’.
The little champ is the Daughter of Entrepreneur couple Sambit Nanda & Madhusmita Nanda of Biswanathpur village in Gondia Block of Dhenkanal district and grand daughter of former MLA Nabin Nanda.