Mangaluru: Commonwealth Games medal winners, Pradeep Kumar Acharya and Rithvik Alevooraya were accorded a rousing welcome when they arrived at the Mangalore International Airport on Wednesday, September 25.
Representatives from MIA, former corporator Roopa D Bangera, members of Vipra Samagama Vedike, Ramakrishna Rao, Niveditha Shetty and others, garlanded Pradeep Kumar Acharya, Rithvik Acharya and their coach Sathish Kumar Kudroli.
Pradeep Kumar Acharya, a resident of Urwa Stores, and Rithvik Alevooraya K V, student of Sahyadri College of Engineering, had won four gold medals for India under the senior and junior divisions of the Commonwealth Benchpress Powerlifting Championship, respectively, held at St Joh’s in Canada a few days ago. Pradeep has received training at Balanjaneya Gymnasium under Ekalavya awardee Sathish Kumar Kudroli.
What was most noticeable, however, was that no one from the district administration was present when the medal winners arrived back at their homeland.
