Isroop Narang with his coach Vivek Thakur (special arrangement) Chandigarh: At the age of 19, Judok is Isroop Narang, a student of MCM Dav College for Women, Sector 36, brought fame by winning a silver medal for India at the JUDO Judo championship, which took place in Jakarta, Indonesia.In the category of -78 kg of junior category, Judo Judo began a young athlete in Ludhiana before moving the base to Chandigarh. She was already decorated with gold at Taipei Junior Asian Cup 2025, first announced on the international scene of the Commonwealth Judo Championship in England in 2018, describing it as a name to be seen in Judo, India.Her mother, Jaspreet Kaur, remembers how sport has become Isroop’s call. “We put her in sports because she was tall, but also overweight. She tried to shoot and basketball, but judo was what caught her heart,” she said, her voice broke with emotions. “When I saw standing on stage this time, I couldn’t stop my tears. It’s the first of our family to enter sport and looked at how far it came.”Ishroop has participated in sports from the third grade. At only ten, she was written at the Inspire Institute of Sport in Karnataka for advanced training, a step that has proved to be essential in its development. As a child, she often felt omitted because of her height, but today this attribute has turned into her strength.In its second year, Isroop is looting under coach Vivek Thakur, who also worked as the head coach of the Indian team at Jakart Championship. Himachali since birth and brought up in Chandigarh, Thakur himself is the famous judo, seven -time national champion, silver medalist at the Masters Commonwealth Judo Championship and the recipient of the Prize in Sport 2023.As soon as the MNC employee, Thakur left the corporate world to continue coaching, and supplement his dose in the NIS diploma in sports coaching (2017–18) before entering the UT sports department in 2019. Since then he has trained players who packed 450 national medals and 11 international medals. Thakur is waiting for his certification of the International Judo Federation 1 and believes that judo is more than just a sport. “Judo gave me everything, discipline, purpose and chance to transform young lives,” he said.
