Rowing team named for Asiad
New Delhi: The Rowing Federation of India (RFI) has announced a 36-member squad for the upcoming Asian Games to be held in Incheon, South Korea, from September 19 to October 4. Squad (Men): Open Men’s Single Sculls [M1X]: Sawarn Singh. lightweight Men’s Single Sculls [lM1X]: Dushyant lightweight Men’s Double Sculls [lM2X]: Roopender Singh, Manjeet Singh. Open Men’s Double Sculls [M2X]: Om Prakash, Bhokanal Dattu. light Weight Men’s Quadruple Sculls [lM4X]: Rakesh Raliya, Vikram Singh, Sonu laxmi Naraian, Shokendar Tomar. Open Men’s Coxed Eights [M8+]: Kapil Sharma, Robin P U, Ranjit Singh, Bajrang lal Takhar, Ranjit Singh, Davinder Singh, Mohammad Azad, Maninder Singh, Sawan Kumar Kalkal, Md. Ahmed. Women: Open Women’s Coxless Pairs [W2-]: Sanjukta Dung Dung Tarunikha Pratap. light Weight Women’s Quadruple Sculls [lW4X]: Dittymol Varghese, Kh. Monalisha Chanu, Th. Chaoba Devi, Manjula Xess. Open Women’s Quadruple Sculls [W4X]: N. lakshmi Devi, Sanjukta Dung Dung, Amanjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur.
94 teams for 55th Subroto Cup
New Delhi: The 55th Subroto Cup school football tournament will see a record 94 teams competing across three categories with the highlight being the Brazilian outfit ColegioEstadul Santo Antonio. Ahead of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, tournaments like Subroto Cup can be an ideal platform for the selectors to spot the budding talent and groom them for the mega event. The country’s only school tournament is organised by the Subroto Mugger Sports Education Society and IAF since 1961.
NE United sign Englishman Keene
Guwahati: Indian Super league franchise NorthEast United FC have brought on board another international player, signing English striker James Keene, a product of the Portsmouth FC youth scheme in England. The 28-year-old striker debuted in the 2005 English Premier league under Harry Redknapp, who is one of the senior most managers in English professional football. Keene had a successful career in Sweden between 2007 to 2013 and was considered one of the brightest stars in the Swedish league. The team is currently working tirelessly to get ready for the league that will commence on October 12.
10-member tt squad for games
New Delhi: A 10-member table tennis team spearheaded by Sharath Kamal will be representing India at the Incheon Asian Games beginning September 19. The team was selected on the basis of the players’ national and international ranking, besides keeping in mind the current form of the individual players after the Inter-Institutional championships held in New Delhi in the third week of August. The paddlers will leave for the South Korean city on September 22 as the table tennis events begin from September 27. The teams: Men: A. Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai, Antony Amalraj and Sanil Shetty. Women: Ankita Das, Madhurika Patkar, Poulomi Ghatak, Manika Batra and Neha Aggarwal. Coaches: Peter Engel and Bhawani Mukherjee.
Bhatinda to host WKl today
Bhatinda: The historical town of Bhatinda will host the second weekend of Punjab leg of the inaugural Wave World Kabaddi league (WKl) with Punjab Thunders taking on Yo Yo Tigers in the first match here on Saturday. The Bhatinda leg og WKl will be held at the Rajindra College ground from September 13 to 15.