CM felicitate sprinter Dutee Chand
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated State sprinter Dutee Chand here on Thursday, for her outstanding performance in the Junior Asian Athletic meet at ChineseTaipei. As the cash incentives she received Rs 1.5 lakhs and CM gave another Rs 1.5 lakhs for her outstanding performance in the Asian meet.
Dutee Chand clocked 23.74sec to take the gold medal in the 200m sprint to emerge as India’s new sprint queen. The limelight also fell on the Dutee in the junior women 4X400m relay team who grabbed the top spot with a timing of 3:40:53. The quartet comprising of Dutee Chand, VV Jisha, Jessy Joseph and GK Vijaya Kumari romped home, ahead of the Thai team and the hosts, who finished second and third respectively.
Independent Club win in FAO league
Bhubaneswar: Independent Club defeated YVCG by 2-0 goals in the the FAO 1st Division Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Thursday. Pushpendu Dey of the winning team draws the first blood in the 10th minute. After the change of sides, Nelson doubles the lead in the 80+1 minutes. Sports Authority of India Cuttack center would meet JBC on Friday.
2 Odia athletes likely to participate in CWG
Bhubaneswar: Odisha sprinter Srabani Nanda got listed in the 4X100 women really team for the 20th Commonwealth Games to be held at Glasgow in Scotland, informed Srabani over telephone.
Srabani Nanda placed along with Sarada Narayan, H M Jyoti, Asha Roy, Shantini and Merline K Joseph in the national really team. Srabani secured bronze medal in women 100 mtr run with timing of 11.59 sec in the 54th National Inter State Senior Athletic Championship-2014 at lucknow on June first week. Odisha girls Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, Purnima Hemram and Jauna Murmu bagged gold medal in the 4X100 meter race by clocking 46.26 seconds in the meet. On the basis of the inter-state meet performance Srabani got selected. Another Odisha athlete would get chance in the 4X100 men relay team for CWG, She added .
Youth meet concludes
Bhubaneswar: Aiming to provide proper platform for the development of excluded youths ,instilling positive attitude and good citizen city based voluntary organisation named centre for child and women development (CCWD) in collaboration with National foundation for India (NFI), New Delhi organised one day Youth Meet at Niladri Vihar Rickshaw Colony (B) here. As many as 60 Youth participated in this programme. The aim and objective of the meet focused by Bhaskar Chandra Pradhan, Project coordinator. On this occasion Sahal Kumar Nayak member of YFC focused on strengthen of friendship. The Members of Youth Facilitation Center (YFC) organised a cricket tournament to strengthen their inner quality development. lastly Soumya Ranjan Mallick proposed warm vote of thanks to all.