Wrestler Rama Chandra felicitated
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Veteran Wrestling Federation and Ramakrushna Wrestling Academy members felicitated their president Rama Chandra Padhi in a function at Puri on Monday. Veteran wrestler of the State Rama Chandra lead the national veteran wrestling team, the team participated in the World Veteran Championship held at Athens from October 13 to 18, being organised by Federation International Des luttes Association (FIlA). Among others, Bhagaban Suara, Rama Chandra dasmohapatra, Bijaya Kumar Pati, Bimal Prasad Das, federation secretary Krishna Chandra Panda, vice president Chakradhar Mohapatra, Rabi Sankar Pratihari, Pradyumna Mishra, Jitendra Nath Das, Gourihari Pradhan and Ragunath Pratihari were present.
Blind women cricket camp begins
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Cricket for the Blind (OCB) in collaboration with Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped (VRCH) under Ministry of labour and Employment, Government of India, two NGOs namely Indian Institute of Education and Care (IIEC) and State Branch of National Association for the Blind India (NABI) organizing the first ever Blind Women Cricket Coaching and Tournament in Odisha from October 30 to November 8. Blind girls across the Odisha are undergoing seven days long extensive cricket coaching from 30thOctober, 2015 to 5th Nov, 2015 under the leadership of very senior cricket coach of the blind Ajaya Kumar Samal. The blind girls are staying in the hostel of VRCH, Gandamunda, here.
Total 12 matches amongst four teams have been planned in cricket tournament during 6th November 6 to 10 at Satya Sai Women College playground, Gandamunda, Bhubaneswar. The Odisha State team will be selected to play in zonal, regional, national cricket tournaments for the blind women. These blind girls have been picked up from school for the blind and institutes of various districts of Odisha.
Rourkela Open School Football Tourney begins
Rourkela: Rourkela Open School Football Tournament organised by the Sports Cell of Rourkela Steel Plant was inaugurated at Ispat stadium on Tuesday by S K Nayak, General Manager (Town Services and CSR) in presence of many senior officers of RSP, coaches and match officials were also present on the occasion. Nayak declared the tournament open. He encouraged the students to participate in sporting events to imbibe the culture of discipline, co-operation and brotherhood. He commended the efforts of Sports Cell of RSP in providing a platform for identification of talents and grooming the budding players. Altogether 28 teams would be participating in the event, of which 13 are of senior boys, 11 of junior boys and four women’s teams. The final match of the tournament will be played on 19th November.
Dipsan deputy captain of National Jr Hockey team
Bhubaneswar: Hockey India, the apex body for the game in India, on Tuesday announced Harjeet Singh would lead the 18 member team and Odia player Dipsan Tirkey as vice captain for the 8th Junior Men’s Asia Cup to be held in Kuantan, Malaysia. The Junior Men’s Asia Cup is the largest Asian Tournament for junior men and will feature the top eight countries from Asia who will be fighting for supremacy from November 14 to 22. Another Odia player Anand lakra got selected in the team. The 18 member Junior India squad which has been announced in the midst of the ongoing national camp at the SAI centre in Bengaluru will be led by the talented Harjeet Singh, who also was adjudged the player of the tournament in the recently concluded 5th Sultan of Johor Cup in Malaysia. The Indian goal posts will be guarded by Suraj Karkera and Vikas Dahiya. The defensive wall of Dipsan Tirkey, Varun Kumar, Anand lakra, Vikramjit Singh and Harmanpreet Singh will be adding that extra layer of security for the Indian goalkeepers. The Midfield will see Captain Harjeet Singh alongside Nilakanta Sharma, Santa Singh, Manpreet, Manpreet Singh Mangalsingh Chahal. Mandeep Singh, Sumit Kumar, Arman Qureshi, Gurjant Singh, Mohd Umar and Ajit Kumar Pandey will be the forwards for India in the upcoming tournament.