2nd National Tug of War Championship

Date: 01 and 02 March, 2024

Winner: Koshi

Runnerup: APF

Venue: Mahendra Morang Aadarsha Multiple Campus, Biratnagar, Morang, Nepal

Organizer: Nepal Tug of War Association

Coordination and Management: Koshi Province Tug of War Association

Weight Category: Men, 600KG, Senior

Participated Teams: As per the norms of Nepal Government, participating teams in a National Competition should consists of Provincial Level teams and Departmental Teams. For this competition out of seven provinces, five teams Koshi Province, Bagmati Province, Madhesh Province, Lumbini Province and Karnali Province participated and all three departmental teams Nepal Police, Nepal Army, Armed Police Force of Nepal participated.

All participating teams and technical teams were given free accommodation for 2 days.

This competition is the first of the competition organized in League-cum-Knockout format.

For qualifying round, the teams were divided into two groups, by lucky draw process.

Draw Table:

Group 1

Group 2

Team A

Nepal Army

Team E

Armed Police Force

Team B

Nepal Police

Team F

Madhesh Province

Team C

Koshi Province

Team G

Lumbini Province

Team D

Karnali Province

Team H

Bagmati Province

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Qualifying round was a Points Competition. The order of pulling was published and the result was as given below.

Game Number

Team 1

 

Team 2

Result

Game 1

Nepal Army

VS

Nepal Police

0 : 2

Game 2

Armed Police Force

VS

Madhesh Province

2 : 0

Game 3

Koshi Province

VS

Karnali Province

2 : 0

Game 4

Lumbini Province

VS

Bagmati Province

2 : 0

Game 5

Nepal Army

VS

Karnali Province

2 : 0

Game 6

Armed Police Force

VS

Bagmati Province

2 : 0

Game 7

Nepal Police

VS

Koshi Province

0 : 2

Game 8

Madhesh Province

VS

Lumbini Province

2 : 0

Game 9

Nepal Army

VS

Koshi Province

0 : 2

Game 10

Armed Police Force

VS

Lumbini Province

2 : 0

Game 11

Nepal Police

VS

Karnali Province

2 : 0

Game 12

Madhesh Province

VS

Bagmati Province

2 : 0

Following the conclusion of the qualifying round, the final points tables were as follows:

Group A

No

Code

Team

 A 

 B 

 C 

 D 

League Points

League Placing

1

A

Nepal Army

 -

0

0

3

3

3

2

B

Nepal Police

3

 -

0

3

6

2

3

C

Koshi Province

3

3

 -

3

9

1

4

D

Karnali Province

0

0

0

 -

0

4

Group B

No

Code

Team

E

F

G

H

League Points

League Placing

1

E

Armed Police Force

 -

3

3

3

9

1

2

F

Madhesh Province

0

 -

3

3

6

2

3

G

Lumbini Province

0

0

3

3

3

4

H

Bagmati Province

 0 

 0 

 0 

 - 

4

Semi-Final

Game

Team 1

 

Team 2

Result

Semi Final 1

Koshi Province

VS

Madhesh Province

2 : 0

Semi-Final 2

Armed Police Force

VS

Nepal Police

2 : 0

Final:

Game

Team 1

 

Team 2

Result

Final

Koshi Province

VS

Armed Police Force

2 : 0

Winner Prize: Trophy, Medal, Certificate and NPR 100K

Runner-up Prize: Trophy, Medal, Certificate and NPR 50K

Officials' List:

Jury: Surya Bahadur Bhattarai, Er. Yubraj Chaudhary

Central Judge: Santosh Tamang, Rabi Kumar Karki, Ashok Kumar Chaudhary, Prabhu Narayan Siwakoti

Side Judge: Mahesh Chaudhary, Nikhilesh Kumar Mishra, Bal Bahadur Khatri, Joseph Ghimire, Prajwal Adhikari

Weigh Master: Samin Thakuri

Marshal: Sujan Bhurtel, Samin Thakuri

Acknowledgement: Thanks to TWIF for technical instructions, thanks to technical committee of NTWA for organizing the competition in TWIF format, thanks to sponsors, thanks to Volunteers from MMAMC, and thanks to Koshi Province Tug of Association for managing the competition.

Video of the Competition

Photos of the Competition