Ameek, Anshu, Avilash win in Tennis tourney
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Ameek Kiran Batth won the girls U-16 doubles title partnering with Harleen Kaur (HR) by defeating top seed Princy Panchal and Priyanka Jakhar by 6-2,6-3 in the doubles final of the Championship Series (CS-7) U-14 and U-16 Tennis Tournament at ClTA avenue Chandigarh on Friday. In G-U14 singles final Ameek put up a brave fight against top seed and India no-2 Sara Dev of Haryana before losing to her by 2-6,6-0,2-6 and bagged the runner up trophy. In another tournament at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Odisha boy Anshu Kumar Bhuyan clinched double crown in men’s 50K. In singles final he defeated Irfan Hussain of Tamil Nadu by 6-3,6-2 and in doubles final partnering with his State as well as camp-mate Avilash Mishra defeated Irfan Hussain and Isshan Hussain of Tamil Nadu by 6-2,6-4. Ameek ,Avilash and Anshu train under Farhan Ali tennis camp.
Odisha win in Nat’l Jr Girls Football
Bhubaneswar: Host Odisha girls defeated Goa 2-0 goals in the quarterfinal league round matches of the Junior Girls National Football Championship at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. Jasmani Samad of the winning team drew the first blood in the seventh minute. After the change of sides, Jasmani netted another goal in the 67th minute and took away the match from Goa. The match between Jharkhand and Manipur was abandoned because of incessant rain.It has been rescheduled for Saturday.
Pratyasha bags hat-trick gold in Nat’l Jr Swimming
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ace swimmer Pratyasha added another feather in her cap, by claiming the gold medal in the 200 metre backstroke group-II girls event of the Glenmark 43rd Junior National Aquatic Championship 2016 at Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre in Bengaluru on Friday. Pratyasha clocked 02:35.57 seconds and bagged her third individual gold medals. Tanisha Malviya of Delhi and R Jaahnavi of Tamil Nadu grabbed the silver and bronze medals by clocking 02:38.32 and 02:39.55 seconds respectively. Altogether 20 swimmers participated in the event. Earlier, Pratyasha received the gold medal in the 50 metre back stroke and girls100 metre backstroke event by clocking 00:32.87 and 1:10.47 seconds, respectively.
9-member postal team to join All India meet
Bhubaneswar: A nine-member State Postal squad has been selected in a trail held at Puri, the team will participate in the All India Bodybuilding, Powelifting and Weightlifting Championship schedule to held at Aleppey in Kerala from July 26 to 29. Fourth time Dakashree title holder Odisha’s bodybuilder Janmejaya Mohanty will participate in the 85kg event, he is eyeing to click the title for the fifth time. His state-mate Ajaya Mohapatra ,S Harichandan and Vadi Srikant will participate in the 95, 75 and 60 kg category respectively. Powerlifter Malaya Ranjan Pati will take part in the 95 kg category. Four weightlifters Pradeep Sahu (56 kg),Niladri Sahu (69kg),Kameswar Nayak (77kg) and Biswajit Pratihari (85kg) got selected to participate in different weight categories.