Kannada, 21/5:Uday Chowta, former member of the Indian kabaddi team and the first kabaddi player from Dakshina Kannada district to receive the Ekalavya award, passed away in the wee hours on Saturday.
In a sports career spanning two decades, Uday had played in over 100 national and 300 state level Kabaddi tournaments. Uday, a resident of Badigudda near Mani in Bantwal taluk completed his schooling in Mani higher primary school and PUC at Government PU college in Puttur. He obtained his degree from Philomena college in Puttur.
Since his college days, he was active in sports including kabaddi and volleyball. Uday who begun representing Philomena college in inter-college kabaddi tournaments went onto represent Mangalore University in inter-university kabaddi tournaments. He had represented Karnataka in the junior national kabaddi tournament in 1993
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