Sportslogon sports award on July 14
Bhubaneswar: Sportslogon.com, the leading sports news portal of the State managed by Good Samaritan Trust, would honour five best sportspersons of the State on its fourth anniversary on July 14 at Jaydev Bhawan here. The portal would give away five awards with total prize money `1,10 lakhs said Good Samaritan Trust Secretary Tanmay Das in a Press Meet here on Wednesday. The trust would give `25,000 as prize money to four persons in the category of ‘Young Emerging Player of the Year’, ‘Sports Person of the Year’, ‘Coach of the Year’, ‘Sports Person of Bygone Era’ and `10,000 as ‘Kumudini Sports Talent Award’ to sub junior player in the name of social activist and sports lover Kumudini Mishra. In this year we have increased the cash award of Kumudini sports talent award, earlier this award carries a cash amount of `5,000, added Tanamy. “We are requesting the sportsperson, sports organistaion and sports lover to send their choice of nominees for the awards ceremony. It is not mandatory to apply for the award but your support will help us to finalised the names. A three-member jury committee would be appointed soon to choose best sportspersons from the State. The decision of the jury would be declared 10 days before the award ceremony. The trustees have been decided to introduce a sports magazine from this year to be released on July 14, Tanmay added. The news portal officials felicitated Sports Journalist Federation of India (SJFI) executive member Sambit Mohapatra. For the first time in 37 years Odia sports journalists of the State Mohapatra elected as Sports Journalists Federation of India (SJFI) executive committee member. Among others, trustee Nanda Kishor Patnaik, sportslogon.com patron Sudhansu Sekhar Deo and corporater Pranab Kishor Swain were present.
KIIT felicitate sprinter Dutee Chand
Bhubaneswar: Odia Sprinter Dutee Chand was felicitated at KIIT campus upon her arrival in Bhubaneswar on June 17. Dutee, who is a student of KIIT law School, won double gold in women’s 200 m and 400 m x 4 relay in the recently concluded Junior Asian Athletic Championship held in Taipei, China from June 12-16. She was felicitated in presence of Dr A Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS. She has also qualified for world junior athletic championship and nominated for forthcoming Commonwealth Games. Expressing his satisfaction over the achievement, Dr Samanta said, Dutee has brought many laurels for Odisha and the country. Calling her “the pride of KIIT”, he hoped that she will also achieve success in junior athletic championship and Commonwealth Games. In another development, a coaching-cum-selection camp of Odisha women cricket was inaugurated in KIIT campus by Dr A Samanta. The camp will continue from June 17 to 25. Players for Junior and Senior Odisha Women Cricket Team will be selected through this camp. As many as 90 girls from 30 districts of Odisha are participating. Sports Department of KIIT is managing the camp under active guidance of OCA.
Makhanlal memorial chess from June 20
Bhubaneswar: The Puri District Chess Association (PDCA) will organise the “20th Makhanlal Halder Memorial Open Chess Championship at Durga Bari Samiti in Puri from June 20 to 22. It is an open chess championship where players of all ages can participate. The championship offers a bagful of cash prizes amounting to `28,500. The players occupying the first twenty positions will be given cash prizes. The top four finishers would get `5,000, 4,000, 3,000 and 2,000 respectively. Special cash prize of `1000 will be given to the best veteran player(above 60 years). Besides, 20 attractive trophies and shields will be given to boys and girls in different age-groups of Under-7, 9, 11, 13 & 15. Former State Champion, Manas Parida was the champion last year in which 114 players including 23 rated players from 10 districts of the state had participated. Till now 89 players including 18 rated players from 7 districts have already confirmed their entry. Interested players may contact Debasis Panigrahi, Chief Arbiter, Mob-9938318787/ 9438571659.
2 Odisha lifters selected for World Jr Meet
Bhubaneswar : Odisha’s two women lifter Pramila Kirsani and Saraswati Rout would participate in the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships to be held at Kazan in Russia from June 20 to 28. International lifter Pramila would participate in women 53kg category and Saraswati would participate in the women 58 kg category.
Radharaman wins in FAO 1st Div Football league
Bhubaneswar : Odisha Cricket Association secretary Asirbad Behera felicitated sprinting star Dutee Chand, while inaugurating the FAO 1st Division Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday. OCA secretary presented a cheque of Rs 1 lakha to Dutee for her outstanding achievement in the athletics in the recently concluded Junior Asian Athletic Championship held at Chinese Taipei.
In the inaugural match Radharaman Club defeated Bidanasi Club by 2-1 goals. After the barren first half, Krishnanu Das of the Radharaman draw the first blood in 55th minute. Bijoy Behera scored the equaliser in the 69th minute. Emanuel netted the winning goal in the 80+4 mins. Bhakta Ballav Das, Bijoy Das, Ramesh Chandra Mallick (FAO vice president), Avijit Paul, Rushinath Sahoo, Sangeeta Sharma (Jt. Secretary) were present along with other members and guests.