Sports Department announced cash award
Bhubaneswar: State Sports and Youth Services Department announced cash award for the National Games medalists. The gold winner in individual and team event would receive Rs 50,000 and 25,000 respectively. Similarly the silver and bronze medalists in team and individual events would get Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 (individual event) and Rs 15,000 and 10,000 (team event) respectively. Odisha bagged six gold, five silver, four bronze and total of 15 medals in the national games.
Karate team for National Karate championship
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Karate-do Association has announced a 14-member State team including four women karateka for the Senior National Karate Championship to be held at Talkotra Stadium, New Delhi from February 18 to 20.
Women: (Individual Kata), fight (below 50 kg) Valena Valentina, fight (Below 45kgs) Sujata Sahoo, (below 55kgs) Anupama Swain, (below 60kgs) Chinmayee Bhuyan, Avinash Pundir (manager), Rajiv Singh, Sandeep Mohanty (both coach).
Men: (Individual Kata) Deepak Kumar Samantray, Fight (Below 50kgs) Anand Chandra Bihari, (Below 55kgs) Dillip Kumar Jena, (Below 61kgs) Santosh Kumar Moharana, (Below 67kgs) Bikash Kumar Digal, (Below 75kgs) Debasish Mohanty, (Below 84kgs) Nihar Ranjan Swain.
RYCC enter Sourav memorial cricket semis
Bhubaneswar: Natraj Behera of RYCC of Rourkela smashed a century and guided the team to beat Solar Sporting by 26 runs and entered the semifinal of the 2nd NM Bhuyan and Sourav Mohanty Memorial Trophy Cricket Tournament at BJB College Ground here on Tuesday.
Batting first, with Natraj’s century RYCC scored 224 runs in 39.1 overs. In reply, Ashish Tiwary and lokaranjan Rout of Rourkela scalped four and two wickets respectively and restricted Solar for 198 runs in 33 overs. Nataraj of the winning team received the man of the match award.
Brief Score: RYCC, Rourkela 224/10 in 39.1 overs (Natraj Behera 100 (4x12,6x1), Basudev Behera 23(4x3, 6x1), Ranjit Mishra 21(4x2,6x1) ; Malaya Jena 4/51, Sanjay Khuntia 2/40) beat Solar 198/10 in 33 overs (Sai Jagdis 66(4x5,6x1), Rajesh Sethy 27(4x4), Priyatosh Parmanik 24(4x4) ; Ashish Tiwary 4/34, lokaranjan Rout 2/30, Md Isaq Ulla 2/34) by 26 runs.
Cash award for Rugby women team announced
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Rugby Football Association (ORFA) has been announced a cash award of Rs 15,000 for the National Games gold winning Odisha women rugby team on their arrival from Kerala here on Tuesday, said ORFA president MlA Priyadarshi Mishra.
For the first time Women 7-a-sides rugby event included in the 35th National Games at Kerala and Odisha eves created a history winning gold medals by defeating Maharashtra by 17-5 points.
Hupi Majhi of the Odisha netted three try in the 6th,10th and 16th minutes respectively and hermate Meerarani Hembram scored two points through conversion in the 16th minute. Annapurna Bothate of Maharashtra scored the solitary try for Maharashtra in the 20th minute.
State Sports and Youth Services Department also declared a cash award of Rs 25,000 each and Government employment in the Police Department, added Priyadarshi.