State Karate team leave for National meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Karate-Do Association announced a 16-member State karate team and the proceed from here on Thursday for the forthcoming National Karate Championship scheduled to be held at Kerala from February 14. The team has been selected on the basis of the State championship held last year. Rajib Kumar Singh and Santosh Maharana will join the team as coach while Deepak Kumar Samantary as manager. State Team: Valena Valentina, Abhishek Pattnaik, Sindhu Tanaya Khuntia, Anupama Swain, Chinmayee Bhuyan, Anuradha Patra, Krushna Chandra Maharana, Dillip Kumar Jena, Rajani Bishi, Bikash Digal, Toofan Badatya, Sagar Palo, Krishna Shikari, Sujata Sahoo, Shusumuni Paltasingh, Itishree Nayak.
Pratyasa win gold in RGKA Swimming
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ace swimmer Pratyasa Ray won gold medal in the 200 meter back stroke event of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan National level Women Competition at GMC Balayogi Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday. Pratyasa received the gold by clocking 2:37.80 seconds. She was the only national medalists of the State in swimming event.
Srabani, Jauna bag gold in South Asian Games
Bhubaneswar: Srabani Nanda and Jauna Murmu bagged gold medal each in the 100 meter and 400 meter hurdles race in the South Asian Games at Indra Gandhi Athletics Stadium in Guwahati on Thursday.
Srabani grabbed the gold medal by clocking 23.9 seconds. While Dutee chand claimed silver medal with a timing of 24.14 seconds and RMRK Rathnayak of Sri lanka won the bronze medal 24.17 seconds.
This was the first gold medal for me in the year 2016. Tough I got the top prize in the event I am not happy with the timings. In this Olympic year my target is to qualify the 23.20 seconds timing, said Srabani.
Odia sprinter Jauna Murma won the gold medal by clocking 57.69 seconds. While her country-mate Ashwani Akunj received silver medal with 58.92 seconds and Kawshalya got bronze medal with 59.87 seconds. Earlier, Srabani and Dutee bagged silver and bronze medal respectively in the women 100 meter event by clocking 11.72 and 11.75 seconds respectively. In the women 4X100 relay event on Wednesday, Srabani and Dutee were in the team and claimed silver medal by clocking 45.7 seconds. While Sri lanka and Bagladesh won gold and bronze medal respectively.