VV School Karatekas to join RKSRK meet
Bhubaneswar: A 12-member VV Karate School team will leave on Tuesday to participate in the 15th Ryushin Kan Shito Ryu Karate (RKSRK) Championship and International Ryushin Kan Shito Ryu Karate Championship schedule to be held at Pondicherry from August 26 to 28. Anisha Mishra, Divyak Nayak, Amogh Raj, Rajlaxmi Jena, Bidya Kiran, Sarthik Harichandan, Kahkashan Parween, Sushum Samal, Sidharth Kapoor, Dabi Prasad Mishra, Chinmaya Subudhi and Valena Valentina will participate in both the meets. International medalist Valena and Bidya Kiran willhave the fare chance to bag medals, apart from them national open medalists Anisha Mishra and Rajlaxmi Jena are among the favorite.
Bikash manager for int’l meet
Bhubaneswar: All India Soft Tennis Association selected Odisha’s Bikash Chandra Pattnaik as the team manager of national team for the forthcoming South Korea International Soft Tennis Championship to be held at Inchen in South Korea from August 24 to 30. Altogether 20 countries will participate in the meet. Bikash left for the meet on Monday, he will join the national team. Odisha Soft Tennis Association secretary M Azam, chairman Manorahjan Mohanty, vice-president Jitendra Nath, Ranjan Kumar Nanda and ODM Public School chairman S Minaketan wished Bikash.