Mangalore: Royal D'Silva Wins Gold in National-level Sports Event

I J Saldanha Shet

Mangalore, Feb 8: Royal D'Silva of Rosario PU College, Mangalore, won a gold medal in 4 X 100 meter relay held at Ludhiana, Punjab recently. The relay is a prominent national level team event in the under-19 boys category organised by School Games Federation of India.

Royal D’Silva who is pursing his studies in First PUC Arts at Rosario PU College was the only athlete from Mangalore city, along with the athletes of Alva's P U College, Moodbidri, to represent Karnataka at the national level, which has been a passion for Royal who has won many medals at the district and state level.

At the 28th Karnataka State Junior or Senior Championship, 2011 held in October he secured second place in 100 Meters event with a time of 11.5 seconds. In the same meet in the 4X 100 meter relay, he and his team won the second place.

Royal has a marked aptitude also for the foot ball. He was the goal keeper of the college team which won the Independence Cup and also Dakshina Kannada PU level Football Match.

Royal is quite enthused with the achievements in athletics and remembers gratefully the encouragement of his father Lawrence D’Silva and mother Ivy D’Silva from Attavar. Royal acknowledges gratefully Karriyya Rai, PT of Rosario High School who was the first one to spot his talent,and John Lobo with Dinesh Kundar who train him to better achievements.

Royal dreams of achieving a gold medal in Olympics and desires to be an army officer.