Manas bags Umesh Chandra chess title
Bhubaneswar: Manas Ranjan Parida gathered 6.5 points out of seventh round and emerged champion of the two-day-long the 1st Umesh Chandra Mishra Memorial All Odisha Chess Championship, which concluded here on Friday, being organised by Chess Association of Odisha (CAO). Santosh Kumar Sinha and Prakash Chandra Sahoo scored 6.5 and six points respectively and finished second and third. Poonam Jena and Arati Bijoy Mohanty bagged two, 4.5 points and claimed the best women and best veteran player of the meet.
Odia singer Pranab Pattnaik presented the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Times Gurukul chairman Sarada Prasad Mishra, Sambhabana secretary Deba Prasad Parija, OSCA vice-president Arati Bijoy Mohanty, CAO secretary Sabita Tripathy were present. Top ten standing: Manas Ranjan Parida (6.5), Santosh Kumar Sinha (6.5), Prakash Chandra Sahoo (6), Manas Singh (5.5), Dhirendra Kumar Das (5), Sanjeeban Nayak (5), Aditya Pattnaik (5), Amarendra Khamari (5), Nabaghana Baral (5), Sunil Kumar Sethy (5).
Odisha’s 4 women rowers to join World meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s four women rowers are in the 12-member national junior rowing team with two accompanying coaches will leave on Saturday to participate in the World Junior Rowing Championships schedule to held at Trakai, lithuania from August 4. The team will participate in pairs and fours for men and women events. Odisha girls, Sanjukata Dung Dung and Manjula Xess will join in the women’s pair’s category. Similarly, their other two sate-mates Narengbam Monika Devi and Ashmita Kujur will take-part in the women’s quadruple sculls event. This meet is also the qualifying event for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to be held in China 2014. India had qualified for the previous YOG held in Singapore, in the double sculls and pairs in both men and women categories. The RFI wishes the team all the very best for the championship. Team: Women’s pairs event; Sanjukta Dung Dung, Manjula Xess (Odisha), Women’s quadruple sculls ; Narengbam Monika Devi, Ashmita Kujur (both Odisha), Nafisa Sadiq (Assam), Tarunikha Pratap (Tamilnadu), Men’s pair; Shiv Singh, Jaydeep Madhukar Singhate (both Maharashtra), Men’s four;Sawn Kumar Kalkal (Maharashtra), Amit Kumar, Jasveer Singh, Manish Yadav (all Uttarakhand), Jenil Krishnan, Saji Thomas (accompanying coaches).