Odisha to host World Jr Chess 2016
Bhubaneswar: For the first time in the history of the State, All Odisha Chess Association would host the greatest sporting extravaganza World Junior Chess Championship in the year 2016. All India Chess Federation (AICF) central council meeting on Sunday at Pune has been allotted the world Jr meet to Odisha. The members of the AICF unanimously agreed on the decision to allot the tournament to AOCA. A five member AOCA team consisting of Sekhar Chandra Sahu President, Ranjan Mohanty Vice President, Vivek Kumar Tibarewal sSecretary, Subhasis Patnaik EC Member and Suresh Chandra Sahoo EC Member were all present in the AICF meeting to persuade and successfully bid for the most prestigious chess championships. Despite stiff competition from so many active chess playing States, the AICF imposed full faith in the organisational skills and capabilities of AOCA team.
SHA in the Sultan of Johor Cup winning team
Rourkela: Anand lakra and Subodh Tirkey, two cadets of SAIl Hockey Academy (SHA) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), were part of the Indian contingent that won the Sultan of Johor Cup Title at Malaysia. In the final match the Indian contingent beat Great Britain 2-1 retaining the title of the Sultan of Johor Cup for the second time. Earlier, during the league matches of the tournament, India had defeated Australia 6-2, Pakistan 6-0 and Malaysia 4-2. Notably SAIl Hockey Academy of RSP played a defining role in grooming Anand and Subodh. Earlier also the Academy has given many world class players to Indian Hockey. One of the celebrity alumnus of the Academy, Birendra lakra has made an outstanding contribution in India’s historic win over Pakistan in the final hockey match at the Incheon Asiad games and made India win the gold after 16 years. At the league match stage too, he had scored a goal against China, thereby helping India to qualify for the semi-final. Earlier, he had played in the london Olympics and Common Wealth games, Glasgow. Other stars from the Academy include Jerom lakra who represented the country in the Six Nations Challenger Cup 2007 at Singapore and Sushil Xalxo had represented the Country in Asia Cup (U-18) at Myanmar in 2009.
Under the tutelage of R K Saini, National Institute of Sports qualified coach and Peter Tirkey, an International level Hockey player, the cadets are receiving the best possible training to bring further glory to not only Rourkela or SAIl but the entire country.
Bhubaneswar girls bag State School Football title
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar emerged champion by defeating Cuttack by 3-0 goals in the three-day-long State School Football Championship 2014 for under 17 Girls at Kaniha on Monday, being organised by NTPC Talcher Kaniha in association with District Education Office, Angul.Altogether 10 teams, 170 participants from Angul, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Balasore,Kendrapada,Sundergarh ,Jharsuguda and Bargarh were participated. The championship was inaugurated by P R Dahake, Executive Director, and Talcher Kaniha on Saturday. Addressing the gathering Dahake stated “NTPC Kaniha takes proud in organising the event and we are eager to support for children in the field of sports in future also”. JVN Rao ,General Manager (O&M) distributed prizes to the winners and runners-up team on the final day of the championship in presence of Mahendra Kumar Sahu, District Sports Officer,Angul , U K Dasgupta,General Manager(Maintenance) , V A Rao,General Manager(Operations) ,S K Suar,Chairman ,Sports Council ,NTPC Kaniha , Prabhakar Mungraj,Assit.Director Physical Education ,Odisha & Rita Kerketta ,Assit.district Education Officer ,Angul.
Bolangir, Ganjam, Sambalpur win Sahani Cup
Bhubaneswar: Bolangir, Ganjam and Sambalpur defeated Dhenkanal, RSP and Kendrapada in their respective matiches of the 56th Senior Men Inter District Football Championship for Sahani Cup -2014, which was inaugurated at simultaneously at Jharsuguda, Brajarajnagar and Belpahar. In the Jharsuguda inaugural match Bolangir edged out Dhenkanal by 2-0 goals. Abhimanyu Pandey and Santunu Bhuyan of the winning team scored a goal each at 16th and 52nd minutes respectively. The match was conducted by K Jaganath Rao, Sujit Patra, G Suresh Kumar and Bibhuti Bhusan Behera. Durga Madhab Naik was the match commissioner. Collector Parameswar B was inaugurated the meet in presence of vice president of Football Association of Odisha (FAO)) Srikara Mishra . At Brajrajnagar Ganjam defeated Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) by 1-0 goal. Rahul S Patil of the wining team scored the important goal in the 15th minute. Rajeswar Rao, Chandrakant Barik, Romancha Bhainsia, Salil Behera were officiated the match. Former MlA Anup Kumar Sai inaugurated the meet in presence of Brajrajnagar College principal Sajjan Mazumdar.
Sambalpur pipped Kendrapada by 2-0 goals in their inaugural match at Belpahar. After the barren first half, Prasant Oram and Benudhar Oram netted a goal each in the 65th and 80th minute respectively. The officials who conducted the match were PK Mohanty, PSK Verma , Kartikeswar Das and Bhanu Bauri and Bhaskar Nanda as the match commissioner . Brajrajnagar MlA Radharani Panda inaugurated the meet. In laikera , Bargarh was declared winner as Raygada unable to participate in the match.The 13th Senior Women Inter District Football Championship for PC Behera Trophy will be inaugurated at Baragarh, Sohela and Padampur .