Manas leads in Makhanlal Open Chess
Bhubaneswar : Undefeated Manas Parida of Bhubaneswar bagged six points by the end of sixth round and topped the point tables in the19th Makhanlal Halder Memorial All Odisha Open Chess Championship at Durgabaadi Samiti, Puri on Saturday. Manas closely followed by Birakishore Behera and Santosh Sinha both local players with 5.5 points each. Third place shared by eight players with five points each. They are Sanjay Dash, Manas Singh, Amarendra Khamari, Nabaghana Baral, Pankaj Pujapanda, Sangram Dalei, B.Manideep and Umesh Prusty. Top seed Manas beat sixth seed Sanjay Dash and second seed Birakishore beat third seed Sanjeeban in the sixth round.
Odisha’s 3 athletes to join Asian meet
Bhubaneswar : Three Odisha athletes will take part in the 20th Asian Athletic Championship schedule to be held at Pune from July 3 to 7. Three athletes are Srabani Nanda, Dutee Chand and Amiya Kumar Mallick will represent the country in 200 meter race in women and men Group. Also Srabani will take part in women 4 x 100 meter relay team. Dutee Chand also selected to represent the country for IAAF World Youth Athletic Championship which will be held at Donetsk, Ukraine from July 10 to 14 in 200 meter race and the India Youth team will leave New Delhi on July 8. Three IAAF (International Armature Athletic Federations) level-I technical officials of the State (Prabodha Kumar Mohanty, Cuttack, Susmita Dutta, Sundargard and Rupanwita Panda, Bhubaneswar) are selected by Athletic Federation of India to officiate the Asian Athletic Championship. These three technical officials were also officiated the Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010. Balasore District Athletic Association general secretary and joint secretary of AFI Adhip Das is in organising committee of 20th Asian Athletic Championship.