Bridges of Sports Foundation

We have worked with over 10,000 children across 4 states of India and currently training 500+ children full time in athletics. Our selected athletes (none of whom had any prior training) have won more than 300 medals at taluk, district, state level and also finished among India’s and Asia’s fastest athletes. We have provided skill development for 50 community coaches and over 2000 children around topics like nutrition, soft skills, hygiene, sports career and mental health. We have proven our core model of how the hyperlocal approach can sustainably identify and develop talent in the Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka. Nayana Kokare who is currently the fastest 19 year old of India and Asia was identified by us in 2019 in one of our village leagues running barefoot with zero experience in training. She is also the first girl from her village to pursue studies beyond 10th and has now interacted with over 25k community members through her success in sports. Along with this we now have developed 3 of the fastest athletes of India across age categories of under -14, under-18 and under-20. This is the first and one of the most unique breakthrough successes for the community. We have strategic partnerships across the world in the UK, Qatar and USA with few of the best coaches and elite training centers - to support development of our athletes and for conducting international camps for training as we move closer to our athletes representing India. We have partnered with Olympic coaches who have won more than 40 Olympic and world championship medals to support the development of training programs for our athletes.