Bhadrak wins State Basketball inaugural
Bhubaneswar: Bhadrak District defeated SoA University in the inaugural match of the 56 Senior State Basketball Championships at SOA University Basketball Complex here on Tuesday. In another match of the day, Kendrapada District edged out Keonjhar by 41-27 points. Altogether 24 men and 11 women teams are participating in the meet.
Higher Education Minister Dr Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi inaugurated the meet in presence of Ashok Sahu, Secretary,OBA, Dr. RK Hota, Dy.Dean SOA ,Jyoti Das, Dean SOA. The chief Guest in his address stated that there is no substitute of hard work and the players who prepared sincerely with hard work will perform successfully and the game of Basketball gaining its popularity among the student masses.
AFC C licence coaching course begins
Bhubaneswar: The AFC C licence Coaching Course has started at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack from Tuesday. This is one of the prestigious football coaching course and also it is mandatory to have an AFC license to be professional football Coach. 20 candidates from various parts of the country are participating in this course. Savio Medira of Goa is the instructor of this course.
Participants: Barun Prakash Majhi, Sarthak Dubey, Sd Manzoor, Ramesh Bista, Hrushikesh Behera, Santosh Kumar, Gotam Das, Xavier Vijaya Kumar, Mahaveer Nath, MB Thomas Jose, Premannada Das, Ravindar Thapliyal, MP Bapi, Sameel Chembakath, Sanjit Jena, Saroj Bhat, Jaspal Urma, Sk Zia- Ul –Hassan, Sujaya Sharma and AK Martins.
Sub-Jr E Zone Qualifier football from today
Bhubaneswar: Football Association of Odisha (FAO) is all set to host Sub Junior National Football Championship for Coca Cola Cup-2014 (East Zone Qualifying Round) at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack from Wednesday. All India Football Federation has been pleased to allot the prestigious tournament to Football Association of Odisha. This tournament which will act as a platform for scouting for the upcoming 2017 U-17 World Cup that will take place in India is conducted on a zonal basis. The teams participating in this championship are Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand ,Sikkim and SAI. In the opening match will be played between Jharkhand and Sikkim and Odisha would meet Jharkhand on December 12.
Anil bags bronze in World Bodybuilding meet
Bhubaneswar: Anil Gochhikar of Puri bagged bronze medal in the 70 kg category of the 2014 World Body Building and Physique Sports Competition at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, NESCO, from December 7 to 9. Earlier, seven bodybuilders of the State participated in the National Bodybuilding selection trail camp held at Baroda in Gujarat and three body builders of the State got selected for the World meet. Anil Gochhikar (70kg), Pankaj Pratihari (65kg) and Satyajit Pratihari (90kg+) are three Odisha bodybuilder were took part in the world meet. For the first time the championship, being hosted by the Indian Body Builders Federation (IBBF), more than 400 national and international athletes participated. The competition divided into 35 categories with both men and women vying for top spots in body building, model physique, athletic physique and sports physique categories.
RK Academy enters Tamando Cup Football final
Bhubaneswar: RK Academy of Kanapur barged into the final by defeating Sports Hostel of Cuttack by 5-4 goals vie through penalty kicks in the semifinal match of the All Odisha 23rd Tamando Cup Football Tournament at the city outskirt on Tuesday. The semifinal match ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time. Biju Marnadi, Priya Ranjan Sethi, Bishnu Bisi, Anurag Murmu and Ragunath Hansda of the Academy team successfully converted their kicks into goals. Similarly, Sunil Sardar, D Srinath, Mukesh Minz, Pankaj Minz of Sports Hostel netted a goal each in the penalty round. Priya Ranjan Sethi of the wining team bagged the man of the match award. Prakash Kumar Dash, Sudip Dash, Sushant Kumar Mishra and Abhinash Patnaik were officiated the match as referees. Yazdani Club-73 of Bhubaneswar would meet AK Club of Angul in the quarterfinal match on Wednesday.