Aalam Sailaja, Asifabad Tribal Sports School ninth class student, won bronze medal in the javelin throw event for under 14-years category at the South Zone National level Athletics Competitions held at Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur.
Sailaja and her coach Vidyasagar were felicitated by tribal welfare deputy director R Ramadevi, MCMO P Uddhav, ATDO Chiranjeevi, GDCO Sankuntala here on Monday and wished the sportswoman to grow to the international level and bring good name to the district.
Sports official Banda Meena Reddy, high school head master Jangu, KomramBheem district atheletic association president and secretary Kotnaka Vijay and S Sankar, handball coach Aravind, Kho-Kho coach Tirumala and others were present.