As part of the 95th Mysuru Karaga Festival, Sri Renukadavi Karaga Temple Trust had organised ‘Naada Kusti’ (Traditional Wrestling) Tournament at Devaraj Urs Multi-Purpose Stadium here on Sunday in which 25 pairs of wrestlers participated. MLC Sandesh Nagaraj launched the Tournament by offering puja to Ambathayi near the wrestling arena. In the Maar-Peet wrestling category, Vishnu Koshe of Pune defeated Lucky of Haryana, Praveen Chikkalli of Mysuru defeated Nagesh of Hampapura, Kiran Bhadravati of Davanagere defeated Nitin of Delhi, bout between Omkar Bat Mare of Maharashtra and Yashwant of Mysuru ended in a draw. The result of other bouts are as follows: Jayasimha of Tumkuru lost to Yogesh of Mellahalli, Hucchappa of Davanagere lost to Ravi of Rammanahalli, Shivakumar of Magadi lost to Ramachandra of Rammanahalli, Gopi of Pune lost to Dhariyappa of Dharwad, Srinivasamurthy of Hunsur lost to Tejas of Ganjam, Vishal of Mysuru lost to Swami of Yandhalli, Shivu of Mysuru lost to Chetan Gowda also from city, Prasanna of Kalisiddanahundi lost to Prasad of city, Bharath of Yadahalli lost to Michael of city, Keerthi of Nagunahalli lost to Suni of Hosahundi.
