5 Rugby players selected for national camp
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s five rugby players got selected for the National Coaching Camp at Delhi from June 1to 16. Rugby India was conducting the camp for HSBC Asian five Nation at lahor, Pakistan on 17th to 23rd June 2014. Bikash Jena, Rajkishor Murmu,Chhitaranjan Murmu,Muna Murmu and Rajeev Kumar Nath are the Odisha players in the camp.
Dutee bags gold in National Athletic meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Dutee Chand again proves herself that she is the present sprint queen of India by bagging gold medal in the 200 metre women event of the 54th National Inter State Senior Athletic Championship-2014 is going at lukhnow on Friday. Dutee claimed the gold by clocking 23.72 seconds, silver goes to West Bengal Asha Roy with timing of 23.75 sec and Srabani Nanda of Odisha secured bronze medal with timing of 23.82 sec. Another Odisha athlete Amiya Kumar Mallik just missed the podium and secured 4th place with timing of 21.57 sec in the 200 meter event. The gold medal received by Manikanta Raj of Andhra Pradesh with 21.30 sec, the bronze and silver won by Vikas Gulia of Delhi and Manikanda Arumugam of Tamil Nadu by clocking 21.31 and 21.35 seconds respectively. Dutee Chand and Jauna Murmu will be running 400 mtr heats and Amiya Kumar Mallick and Srabani Nanda will be running 100 mtr Run heats on Saturday.
Unit-9 wins SNEH Kabaddi Cup
Bhubaneswar : Unit-9 girls team edged out Kalinga Stadium team by 32-28 points and emerged champion in the SNEH Kabaddi Cup held at Salia Sahi here on Friday. Biduttprabha Swain of the champion team bagged the best player award. Society for Nature, Education and Health (SNEH) president Subarna Ghosh inaugurated the match in presence of Bhubaneswar Athletic Association secretary SR Parija and former assistant director of sports and youth services department Ashok Mohanty. The match was a part of the youth programme, initiated by SNEH for slum girls in the city with support from the Mercury Phoenix Trust, Switzerland. The programme’s objective is to improve women’s social status through sports along with promoting HIV/AIDS education for girls.
6 Odisha eves in National Women Hockey team
Bhubaneswar : Hockey India on Friday announced its Senior Women Hockey Squad in which six Odisha players conformed their berth for the Malaysian Tour which is scheduled to take place from June 7 to 17. This tour is in preparations for the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games 2014. India will be playing a six-match test series against Malaysia in Kuala lumpur, as their build up games prior to their participation in the Commonwealth Games to be held at Glasgow (Scotland) from July 23 to August 3. Sunita lakra, Namita Toppo, Asunta lakra, Deep Grace Ekka, lilima Minz and Anupa Barla are the six Odisha girls selected in the 21-member squad for the tour was selected by Hockey India selectors B P Govinda, Harbinder Singh, Surinder Kaur along with chief coach Neil Hawgood and scientific advisor Matthew Tredrea. Selection trials were conducted at NSNIS Patiala on May 23 and 24. The preparatory camp of the Senior Women team for Commonwealth Games and Asian Games 2014 is already in progress at NSNIS Patiala from May 14 and will be an ongoing practice until the commencement of the Commonwealth Games 2014. Midfielder Ritu Rani will be the Captain of the team while defender Deepika will be the her deputy.
list of Selected Players: Yogita Bali, Savita (Goalkeepers), Deepika (Vice-Captain), Kirandeep Kaur, Sunita lakra, Namita Toppo, Jaspreet Kaur, Gurjit Kaur, Asunta lakra, Deep Grace Ekka (defenders), Ritu Rani (Captain), Sushila Chanu, lilima Minz, Vandana Katariya, Amandeep Kaur, Navjot Kaur (midfielders), Rani, Poonam Rani, Ritusha Arya, Anupa Barla, Anuradha Devi (forward).