Every year 15th June is celebrated as International Malakhamb Day. On this occasion this year in spite of the Corona pandemic ‘Online Malakhamb Workshop’ was launched in presence of 30 officials of the International Malakhamb federation. Well known Malakhamb trainer and winner of Dadoji Konddev and Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar Uday Deshpande was asked to conduct free online training workshop till 14th August 2021.
This decision was taken to help youngsters practice for the forthcoming World Malakhamb Competition to be held in New York next year, where participants from 30 countries will be seen in action. Online training for related exercises for Malakhamb will be offered every Saturday between 6 and 6.30 pm. Participants attending this online training will receive e certificate from the International Malakhamb Federation. On this occasion veteran Malakhamb Trainer Shri Ulga Durai was felicitated for his contribution to this sport while the ‘King of Malakhamb’ honour was announced for Late Dattaram Dudam.