State Bodybuilding meet held
Bhubaneswar: The day long Junior Odisha, Masters, Physically Challenged State Body Building Championship held here on Monday, being organised by Odisha Body Building Association (OBBA). City Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, State Bar Council chairman Manash Ranjan Mohapatra, OBBA president Chitta Ranjan Swain, secretary Prasanna Mahasuar and Asian judge Babuli Swain. National judges Tarun Chatterjee, BK Brahma ,Ashok Nayak, Sanjaya Sathapathy, Bijaya Das, Raj Kishore Mallia ,Bhawani Sankar Sahoo,Narayan Chandra Behera, Santosh Samantaray, Prasanta Rout, Dhiraj Panda, lalat Kishore Pattanaik and other district dignitaries were present. Results: Upto 55KG: S Krishna Rao (Balasore, Gold), Bijaya Kumar Mantri (Puri, Silver), Nabajyoti Pradhan (Mayurbhanj, Bronze), upto 60 kg; Debakanta Sahoo (Puri), Dolamani Rout (Baragarh), Rajesh Kumar Temurkar (Jharsuguda), upto 65kg; Ranjan Pradhan (Puri), Sumit Kumar Ray (BBSR), Satya Ranjan Panda (Mayurbhanj), upto 70 kg; Jagannath Mahapatra (BBSR), Biswanath Ray (Puri), Abhishek Kar (BBSR), upto 75 kg; Soumya Ranjan Sethi (BBSR), Somanath Patra (PURI), Deepak Samal (Cuttack), above 75kg; Bikash Sahu (Puri), Rashmi Ranjan Sahu (BBSR), Chhutku Dutta (BBSR), physically challenged; Kuna Sahu ( Ganjam, Gold), Sarojkant Kumar (Kalahandi, silver).
WB, Bihar win in National Sub-Jr Football meet
Bhubaneswar: West Bengal and Bihar defeated Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Chhattisgarh in the Sub-Junior National Football Championship at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Monday. WB beat SAI by 4-1 goals. Abhijit Mondal and Rahim Ali of WB netted two goals each. Bikash Mandal of SAI scored a goal at 49th minute. The officials who conducted the match were N Ibungo Metei (Manipur), Srikant Bohidar (Odisha), Chim Chim Serto (Manipur), Prasant Kumar Pal (Odisha) and Joychandra (Manipur- Match Commissioner). In another match of the day, Roushan Kumar of Bihar scored four goals and the team edged out Chhattisgarh by 7-0 goals. Roushan scored in the 38th,48th, 58th and 63th minutes respectively. Sunny Kumar joined the party and scored two goals in the 46th and 49th minutes respectively and Raphael Soren netted a goal at 76th minute. The officials who conducted the match were Jiban Gagoi (Assam), Sumanta Dutta (Assam), Monika Jana (IFA), Uttam Sarkar (IFA) and Subrat Das (IFA- Match Commissioner).
Khurda bag runners-up trophies in Kickboxing
Bhubaneswar: Khurda Districts bagged the runners-up trophy in the 19 Odisha State Kickboxing Championship held at Town Hall in Jharsuguda from December 13 to 14. The champion title claimed by the Keonjhar District. Khurda bagged 15 gold, 13 silver, eight bronze and total of 36 medals and bagged the runners-up title. Ratiranjan Panigrahi, Balaram Nayak, Joshna Roy and PK Pattnaik were the Khurda officials. Gold medalist: Satya Prakash, Trilochan Biswal, Saltvic Subhoday, Sidharth Sahoo, Satyanarayan Maharana, Prasad Kumar Nayak, Kailash Barik, Sekhar Suman Das, Trinath Bhol, Santosh Nahak, Sk Asif Anwar, Sitam Sahoo, Soumen Mahato, girls; Nirupam Behera, Swayarn Subhra. Silver medalists: Basudev, Ramakanta Singh, Bijay Kumar Nayak, Bishnu Kar, Abinesh Das, Tallen Bose, Akash Kumar Mallik, Dhimant Palo, Taransu Das, Mritunjay Kumar, Ravi Shankar Das, Bishnu Sahoo, Nikhil Sundar Ray. Bronze: Roshan Biswal, Siba Narayan Sahoo, Rakesh Behera, Om Prakash Mahapatra, Sunil Kumar Deo, Sumanta, Bishnu Dutta Mishra, Somya Ranjan Dash.
Odisha finish 2nd in National Tennis Ball Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Odisha lost the final bout from Jharkhand by seven and finished with runners-up trophy in the 25th National Senior Tennis Ball Cricket Championship held at Himachal Pradesh from December 6 to 9.
In the league round Odisha defeated Maharashtra and Chandigarh and enter the semifinal round. In the semifinal Odisha boys put a good show and edged out defending champion Goa. Khurda District Association president Jaganath Pradhan,secretary Sithila Kumar Panda, Odisha Association president Manoranjan Mohaptra, Ashok Das, Gutam Behera were appreciated the team performance. Odisha Team: Prakash Sahu, Pankaj Das, Madan Palai, Parth Sarathi Mohapatra, Mithilesh Sharma, Ajit Dehuri, Murtunjaya Sahoo, Dipak sahu, Rajanikanta Swain, Santosh Pattnaik, Tapas Chhatoei, Rajesh Swain, Manu Rout, Summit Hemram, Chakradhar Majhi (coach), Pratyus Mitra Mahapatra (manager).