Kalinga lancers tickets available online from today
Bhubaneswar: The hockey extravagance of third edition of Hockey India league (HIl) will begin here from January 22 at Kalinga Stadium. The tickets of home team Kalinga lancers would be available online from Friday. The tickets would be available online in www.bookmyshow.com. The tickets counter to be started at Kalinga Stadium from January 17. The West Stand and East Stand tickets price would be Rs200 and Rs100 respectively for the inaugural match between Ranchi Rays and Kalinga lancers on January 22. The West Stand and East Stand tickets price would be Rs100 and Rs50 respectively for other league matches. Kalinga lancers would play its next two home matches against Uttar Pradesh Wizards and Punjab Warriors on January 31 and February 1 respectively. The last two home matches of Kalinga lancers would be held on February 12 and 13 against Delhi Wave Riders and Dabang Mumbai respectively.
AK Club enter AIBP football tourney semis
Rourkela: On the second day AK Club of Angul enters the semifinal by defeating Eastern Railway Sports Club of Kolkata by 4-0 goals in the 11th All India Biju Patnaik (AIBP) Memorial Football Tournament at Ispat Stadium in Rourkela on Thursday, being organised by Rourkela Sports Association (RSA). Suresh Kujur of winning team scored two goals in 21st and 51st minutes. Hismates Samara Oram and Ananad lakra netted a goal each in 33rd and 81st minute respectively. PK Mohanty, Rajesh Bhainsa and Bhanu Bauri conducted the match as officials. Angul team will meet Sports Hostel Cuttack in first semifinal on Friday. In another match, MRRC of Maharastra defeated Yazdani Club-73, Bhubaneswar by 1-0 goal. Rajiv lohar scored the lone goal for winning team in 4th minute of the play. P Rajeswar Rao, G Suresh Kumar and PK Jena were conducted the match as referees.
8 lifters to participate in National Weightlifting meet
Berhampur: Eight Khel Vikas weightlifters would participate in the Open National Weightlifting Competition to be held from January 15 to 21 in Jagadhri, Haryana. In the Youth (U-17) category, Jyoti Badamundi and Namita Mallik are to participate in the Girls 44 kg category, Pinki Naik is to compete in the Girls 48 kg category, Sitamani Hembram will take part in the Girls’ 58 kg category, and finally Sanatan Mallik will compete for honours in the Boys 69 kg category. In the Junior (U-20) category, Tukuni Badamundi and Archana Pradhan will compete in the Girls’ 48 kg and 53 kg category respectively, while Aruna Santa is set to compete in the Boys 56 kg category.
Sushant bags silver in Railway weightlifting meet
Berhampur: Sushant Sahu from Odisha has secured second position in the 62kg category of the All India Inter Railway Weightlifting Championship organised by Shialda Railway Sports Board at Kolkata (WB). Sushant lifted 115kg in snatch, clean and jerk in 145kg and total of 260 Kg and bagged the silver medal. Sahu represented from Northern Railway, informed weightlifting coach Ramesh Padhi.
Nalinee Vidya Mandir Sports meet held
Bhubaneswar: The three-day-long annual sports meet of Nalinee Vidya Mandir of Bissamcuttack in Rayagada on Monday. SCST Assemble committee chairman Padmanav Behera inaugurated the school meet. Other dignitaries Koraput MP Jhina Hikaka, Bissamcuttack MlA Jaganath Marka, Nabarangpur MlA Manohar Randhari, Khariaroad MlA Duryadhan Majhi, Kakatpur MlA Surendra Sethi and Bissamcuttack IOC Hemant Kumar Padhi were present. Balaram Mohapatra distributed the prizes in the closing ceremony in presence of SNEH president Subarna Ghose.