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Tamil Canadian Siblings crowned 2024 National Wrestling Champions
Tamil siblings Aaharen Piranavan and Adsaya Piranavan from Pickering, have been crowned National winners at the 2024 Canadian Wrestling Championships (in the Cadet U17 category), which kicked off on March 14th. The High school students are members of Durham’s Team impact wrestling Club. Adsaya competes in the 49kg category, whilst Aaharen in the 51kg. 15-year-old […]
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Tamil youth crowned U15 England Badminton Champion
At the Under 15 English National Championships 2023 held in Nottingham on the 16th & 17th December, Sajan Senthuran claimed two gold medals. Hosted by Badminton England, the governing body for the sport across the nation, Senthuran was victorious in the open singles and doubles. In the open singles, Senthuran went through the competition without […]
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17 year old Tamil footballer Yoganthan makes his professional UK debut for Barnsley FC
Vimal Yoganathan, a 17-year-old footballer based in the north of England, made his professional debut for Barnsley FC last week. He is the first Tamil footballer to play for a professional UK club. The tall, six foot three, first year scholar from Chester joined Barnsley at under 16s level after being in Liverpool’s academy. He […]
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12-year-old Tamil footballer ‘racially abused’ at London game
It’s not difficult to see that football, the nation’s beloved game, lacks Asian representation on all levels. A fact acknowledged by the FA. In the 2019/20 season, only eight out of about 4,000 English professional footballers who played in the top four divisions were British Asian. 12-year-old Sathi Balaguru, British and of Sri Lankan Tamil […]
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The life of a female Tamil boxer – Light Fly, Fly High
Directed by Norwegians Beathe Hofseth & Susann Ã?stigaard, “Light Fly, Fly High” is an award winning film about Thulasi Ekanandam, an Indian female boxer from the Southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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