Gangpur beats Bengal in Sub-Jr Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey Gangpur Odisha registered back to back win by defeating Bengal Hockey Association in the pool-C league match of the 4th Sub-Junior National Hockey Championship at Vadodara on Sunday. In the one-sided match Sibren lakra of Gangpur netted three goals and the team beat West Bengal by 5-0 goals. Sibren draw the first blood in the six minute of the match. His-mate Sudhir Ekka double the lead in the seventh minute. However before the first half, the Gangpur registered a 3-0 lead, the third goal scored by Biraj Topno in the 20th minute. After the change of sides, Sibren netted two more goals in the 42nd and 66th minutes respectively. Sibran bagged the player of the match award. In the league match on Tuesday, Gangpur would meet Goans Hockey.
Dutee rewrites another NR in Federation Cup Bhubaneswar: Junior star Dutee Chand provided a sizzling start on the inaugural day and created new meet record as well as national record in the 100 metre race, so as the closing day she rewrite another national record and also new meet record on her name in 200 metre event by clocking 23.90 seconds in the three-day-long 12th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championship at Jawaharlal Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. The previous 200 meter national record was in the name of Tamil Nadu athlete V Pandeswari in the year 1997 with a timing of 23.95 seconds. The meet record was in the name of Mukti Saha with the timing of 24.07 seconds. With the outstanding performance Dutee qualified for Asian Junior Championship schedule to held at China and World meet at USA.and bagged the best women athlete of the meet award. Dutee the bronze medalist in 200m in the 2013 senior Asian Championships held at Pune, qualified for the forthcoming World Junior Championship to be held at USA from July 8 to 16 and in the process also erased a long-standing National record, clocking 11.63 secs in the junior women 100m final. Chand erased the National junior record of 11.75s held by Saraswati Dey since 1996. The Odisha girl had created quite an excitement and anticipation in the athletics circle when she clocked 11.62 secs in the 2013 World Youth Championships at Donetsk. She could not progress beyond the semi-final stage in Ukraine. However, Chand had promised to make a comeback at the World Junior Championships to be held in Eugene (USA) and the Chennai meet served as a catalyst. Another Odisha athlete Rajeswari Bhoi bagged silver medal in Heptathlon event. She has scored 4353 Points and the gold medal has received by Swapna Burman of West Bengal with 5071 points. Kerthena of Tamil Nadu scored 3976 points and satisfied with bronze medal. Odisha received total four medals out of which two gold claimed by Dutee, a silver and bronze received by Rajeswari and Damayanti Murmu.
Puspanjali, Dillip win MBS Mini Marathon
Bhubaneswar: Puspanjali Jena of Maharshi College of Natural law and
Dillip Nayak of Unit-9 Boys High School emerged champion in the girls and boys categories respectively in the 4th Mini Marathon here on
Sunday, being organized by Mothers Business School (MBS) on the
occasion of World Mother's Day. The champion Puspanjali and Dillip received the top prize of Rs 5,000 each. In the boys category, Birendra Haiburu of KISS and Simanchal Raita of Sports Hostel finished second and third received cash award of Rs 3,000 and 2,000 respectively. Similarly in girls, Namita Pradhan of sports hostel and Jyotshna Raita of KISS claimed the second and third place andreceived Rs 3,000 and 2,000 respectively. Fourth, fifth and sixth place holder of both the categories received Rs 5,00 each. Altogether 1100 Students from different schools and colleges around the temple city were participated. Our business School has been organizing this mini marathon for the last four years to create awareness about Mother's day.The school has also been conducting workshops on personal hygiene, sanitation, health check-up camps, distribution of medicines, for various ailments of underprivileged mothers and grandmothers throughout the year. This year the marathon was flagged off by founder KISS and KIIT Dr. Achyuta Samanta in presence of Olympian Anuradha Biswal, Bhubaneswar Athletic Association secretary Sourya Ranjan Parija, Sports and Youth Services former Assistant Director Ashok Kumar Mohanty, MBS Founder secretary Poly and principal Sheshadev Mohapatra. Winners of the Mini Marathon (1st to 6th): Boys; Dilip Nayak, Birendra Haiburu, Simanchal Raita, jiran Oreya, Chaitanya Tiria, Jagadish Gemel, Girls; Puspanjali Jena, Namita Pradhan, Jyotshna Raita, Pravati Majhi, Ranjani Sover, Nandi Kada.