Athletic academy likely at Kalinga Stadium
Bhubaneswar: As per the proposal placed by the Sports and Youth Services Department the Sports Authority of India will set up an athletic academy at Kalinga Stadium here, said Director General of SAI Injeti Srinivas. State Sports Department gave proposal to set up hockey and athletic academy in the State. In this context a high level meeting held here on Saturday, attended by Secretary cum Commissioner Saswat Mishra. SAI will provide all the technical support to the academy. The State Government will search the talents and they would be trained under national repute coaches, time to time overseas coaches would visit the academy, said Srinivas. The present infrastructure is good here at Kalinga Stadium and some further modification is required, which will be done by SAI authority. Presently, the 20-days-long east zone junior athletic camp kicks started here on August 15. The SAI is conducting camp in four different places in North, South, West and East for the junior athletes. The infrastructure facility available here is the best, in other three places the camp is conducting at SAI centers, added Srinivas.
looking after the facility here we are planning to make this venue as a permanent for national athletic camp. Odisha athletes are doing well in the national and international platform. I am hopeful that the athletic academy will help the players. Odisha bagged 271 national and 21 international medals in the water sports events. In this context, SAI had a mandate to develop SAG, Water Sports Centre (WSC) Jagatpur as a pilot project for centre of excellence in water sports namely rowing, canoeing, kayaking and swimming. It also has a target of developing the centre with State of art sports science centre, said Srinivas after his visit to Jagatpur. SAI will provide new coaches, equipments, physio and sports medicine support to WSC. In future a 100 bedded hostel would be constructed for the rowing, canoeing, kayaking players, further added Srinivas.
KISS, Xavier win in MCl Cup Inter-School Football
Bhubaneswar: Defending champion KISS and Xavier Kedaragouri defeated Ramakrushna Mission High School and DAV Pokhariput by 6-0 and 2-0 goals respectively in the 26th Inter School MCl Cup Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Saturday, being organised by Unit-6 Athletic Association. In the group-A league match, Sona Kumar Marda of KISS scored the first hat trick of the meet, he scored in the 16th,20th and 43rd minutes respectively. Dipak Barada netted two goals in the 18th and 33rd minutes and Bhagabat Hansda scored a goal in the 28th minutes and KISS edged out Ramakrushna by 6-0 goals. Sona Kumar Marda of the winning team bagged the man of the match award. In the group-B league match, Priya Darsan Mohapatra and Subham Sahu of the Xavier School netted a goal each in the 25th and 32nd minutes respectively and the team edged out DAV Kedargouri by 2-0 goals. Bhubaneswar Athletic Association joint secretary Naba Ranjan Patnaik gave away the man of the match award to Priya Darsan Mohapatra. Shekhawat Khan, Durga Routray, Rajendra Barik, Pradipta Nayak, Saroj Maharana, Prakash Das and Sudipta Das were conducted the matches as referees. Among others, Pradip Kumar Baliarsingh, Debendra Mishra, Bjendra Mishra, Maheswar Singh, Pramod Rout, Pradip Das, UAA secretary Dillp Kumar Das and vice president Prafulla Mishra were present in the award ceremony.
Mothers Public School and IRC Village Boys High School would meet BJEM Satyabhamapur and DPS Kalinga respectively.
Hazaribag to meet Muzaffarpur
Bhubaneswar: Hazaribagh would meet Muzaffarpur in the volleyball final of the 8th lIC East Central Zonal Volleyball and Athletic meet held at KIIT Campus here on Sunday. In the semifinal on Saturday, Hazaribagh beat Cuttack by 2-0 and Muzaffarpur defeated Bhubaneswar by 2-0. The athletic events kicks started at Kalinga stadium here on Saturday. Total 60 athletic from 11 division of eastern zone are participating in 16 different field events. Prakash Mohanty from Bhubaneswar Division stood 1st in Men’s Javelin Throw. G D Salma from Berhampur Division stood 1st in Men’s 200 meters. C V Kumar of Muzaffarpur Division secured 1st position in Men’s Shut- put. The selected players would participate in the All India meet to be held at Bhopal in December.
Roller Skating Camp begins
Bhubaneswar: The two-day long exclusive Roller Skating Camp kicks started at Kalinga Stadium here, being organised by Odisha Skating Academy. Altogether 55 skaters are participating in the camp to improvise the standard of the skating in the State. Former national champion and Roller Skating Federation of India referee Karanam Gangadhar is guiding the campers. Here players are practicing speed and artistic skating. I will teach them how to control, balance and pick up the speed. Many young kids are here taking seriously skating, this gives me lot of pleasure, said Karanam. We are organizing the camp to papularise the sport in our State and some of our senior players will get better knowledge and techniques. We are planning to conduct a state meet soon, said Partha Sarathi Jena. Dillip Bhuyia, Dharma Adity Patnaik, Dipayan Patnaik, Partha Sarathi Jena and parents and members were present in the opening ceremony.