Friday, November 27, 1998
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Shaun Pollock sends Windies
reeling India
enters final of Asia Cup India
finish 15th in golf meet |
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Sampras dismisses Moya,
books semis berth SAI
communication causes confusion Pakistan
confident of victory Coach
predicts better performance at Asiad
Thumping
win for Kila Raipur school Beijing
bids for 2008 Olympics Harikrishna
stuns French GM Innings
victory for Haryana Haryana
skating meet from today Akhtar
Ali honoured Faridkot
athletes hog limelight |
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Shaun Pollock sends Windies reeling JOHANNESBURG, Nov 26 (AFP) — An early burst of three wickets by Shaun Pollock gave South Africa the advantage on the first day of the first Test against the West Indies at The Wanderers today. The West Indies were 249 for seven at the close. Shivnarine Chaderpaul played a dogged innings of 74 but the tourists were unable to recover fully from their early setbacks. Pollock had the West Indies reeling at 41 for three when he dismissed Clayton Lambert, Philo Wallace and Brian Lara after Lara won the toss and decided to bat on what looked a good batting pitch. Chanderpaul and Carl Hooper stopped the collapse when they put on 91 for the fourth-wicket before Hooper was caught at first slip off Allan Donald for 44. Pollock, newly-appointed vice-captain to Hansie Cronje, finished the day with figures of three of 51 but it could have been better if he had held three sharp caught and bowled chances. He had Lambert caught behind for 16 and then bowled Wallace, after dropping him on nought, and Lara. Pollock later dropped Carl Hooper and Nixon McLean. Hooper offered a chance to
Pollock before he had scored. He went on to make 44 in a
fourth-wicket stand of 91 with Chanderpaul despite
batting with a runner for most of his innings after
suffering a groin strain when he slipped while stretching
forward for play a defensive shot against Jacques Kallis. |
India enters final of Asia Cup NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (PTI) — Defending champions India defeated Chinese Taipei 2-1 to set up a title clash with second seeds Uzbekistan in the $ 84,000 ATF Asia Cup Tennis Tournament at the DLTA Centre Court here tonight. After both teams shared the singles 1-1 in their semifinal, the Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Syed Fazaluddin beat the Taiwanese duo of Chen Chih Jung and Lin Bing Chao 6-4, 7-5 in the deciding doubles rubber. Earlier, Indian spearhead Mahesh Bhupathi brought the hosts back into contention with a 7-5 6-2 win over Chen Wei Ju after teammate Prahlad Srinath had lost the opening singles 4-6 3-6 to Lin Bing Chao. Earlier, India’s semifinal campaign received a jolt when Prahlad Srinath lost to Lin Bing Chao in 85 minutes. The Taiwanese national champion, Lin, who made his Davis Cup debut this year, played with composure and consistency during long rallies, which gave him an edge over his opponent. After both players had held their serve till the fourth game in the first set, Srinath broke lin with a forehand crosscourt winner. But he dropped his serve in the next, double faulting twice to lose advantage. The Indian broke Lin in
the seventh, only to be broken in the next game. |
India finish
15th in golf meet CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 — Playing under difficult conditions, India finished joint 15th along with Colombia in the 21st Eisenhower Trophy Golf Tournament held in Chile from November 19 to 22, according to reports available after the return of the five-member team to India. India had a total score of 879. The joint team of Great Britain and Ireland (852) took the top spot followed by Australia (856) and Chinese Taipei (858). In all, teams from 52 countries with a total of 208 golfers took part in the championship, the top-most international tournament for amateur golf. In the individual championship India's Harmeet Kahlon, who is Chandigarh-based, finished 11th with a score of one over 287. The other Indian golfers in the fray also did reasonably well. Digvijay Singh, who is from Meerut, had a score of 296, followed by Amit Dube with 301 and Amit Luthra with 306. The last two golfers are from Delhi. For the sake of comparison the top golfer in the tournament, Kim Felton of Australia, had a score of 275, eleven under. All the four Indian golfers who went to Chile will represent the country in the Bangkok Asian Games. The tournament was played on two courses, the Los Leones Golf Club which has a par of 71 and the La Dehesa Golf Club which has a par of 72. Each team had to play two rounds on each golf course alternately. Speaking to TNS, Harmeet Kahlon, India's leading amateur golfer, said the experience the team picked up in Chile should stand the team in good stead in the Bangkok Asian Games next month. Also, he was all praise for non-playing captain Dilip Thomas, who according to the rules of the tournament could accompany the golfers through the course. Harmeet said at Chile he could meet his coach, Donato D'Ponziano of Italy. Ponziano had accompanied the Italian team to the championship. The Italian team finished 21st in the tournament. Harmeet said the behaviour of the course was totally different from what he had experienced on Indian courses. However, the experience should help him to improve his game. Harmeet said he was
practicing hard for the Asian Games. As per the programme
of the Indian Golf Union the golf team for the Asian
Games would assemble in Delhi on December 2 and then fly
to Bangkok on December 5. |
Sampras dismisses Moya, books semis berth HANOVER, (Germany), Nov 26 (AP) — Pete Sampras is playing too well to have to worry about figuring out the intricacies of the round-robin format. After beating Carlos Moya 6-3, 6-3 yesterday, Sampras was not even aware that he had clinched a place in the semifinals of the ATP world championship. "That’s nice to hear," Sampras said after being told at the post-match news conference that he had secured a place in the last four. "It’s certainly a good feeling to be here over the weekend," Sampras said. Meanwhile, Andre Agassi dropped out of the tournament because of a back injury and will be replaced by Greg Rusedski. Agassi retired in the third set of his match against Alex Corretja yesterday. Sampras is seeking to become the first man to finish as No. 1 in the world for six years in a row. Marcelo Rios, the only player who can threaten Sampras, trails by 33 points in the computer rankings and has to do better than Sampras in the elite season-ending championship that brings together the top eight players of the year. But Rios, who was not scheduled to play yesterday, lost his first match to Tim Henman and is battling a back injury. He now has to win his next two round-robin matches to reach the semifinals and stay in the chase. The eight players are split into two groups and Sampras and Rios cannot meet until the semifinals. "It helps," Sampras said of Rios losing the first match. "I’m also helping myself by winning. I can’t really be too concerned about what Marcelo is doing." "I have to concentrate on my matches. If I take care of things myself and go out and win, then it should be hopefully good enough. But I must admit I was rooting for the Englishman (Henman) yesterday," Sampras said. Sampras was certainly good enough to beat Moya in only 62 minutes. Moya, the French Open champion who is now 1-1, had beaten Sampras in a group match last year but Sampras went on to win the $ 3.5 million event for the fourth time. On Tuesday, Sampras was equally impressive in dismissing Yevgeny Kafelnikov in straight sets. "It’s not easy to play well like I have been today and yesterday. I was coming into today’s match pretty confident," Sampras said. I wanted to make sure I was coming in a little bit more than last year, chipping and charging, trying to put as much pressure on him as possible." Last year I must admit I felt a little flat. This year, with the ranking up for grabs, I just made a concerted effort to come here a little bit early and prepare as best as I can. "It’s obviously a very big week for Marcelo and I. I just wanted to give myself the best chance possible to play well here," said Sampras, who fired 13 aces. Corretja was leading 5-7, 6-3, 2-1 when Agassi quit. Agassi was practising with Corretja on monday when he fell and hurt his back and has been receiving shots and other treatment since then. "It was definitely painful even this morning in my warmup. I needed to give it a go, at least try to keep the points short," said Agassi, who won the event in 1990. "But I hit a swinging volley and when I twisted it was just like somebody stuck a knife in me. Pretty soon it got quite pointless," he said. Rusedski will play Rios today. Corretja plays Henman and Sampras meets Karol Kucera. Kafelnikov beat Kucera 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-2 in the last match Wednesday and improved to 1-1. Kucera dropped to 0-2. Although he has surged back to No. 4 this year after falling as low as No. 141 at the same time last year, Agassi has not done well at major tournaments this season. " The year has been
great for me in many respects, but the great tournaments
have been pretty disappointing," Agassi said.
"I’ve worked really hard and had to grind week
after week to get myself in position, only to struggle
when I got into position." |
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PESHAWAR, Nov 26 (AP) — Pakistani cricketers, buoyed by their win over Zimbabwe in the international one-day series, said they are confident of another win, this time in the Test series which begin tomorrow. Pakistan also will be trying to redeem itself after last month’s humiliating loss to Australia. "Our main players struggled through injuries and we failed to make a winning combination," said Aamir Sohail, Pakistani captain. But now with all the key players fit again, I hope to achieve good results against Zimbabwe. Pace ace Waqar Younis, who has been dogged by a nagging elbow injury, will be playing to give Pakistan a big boost. A veteran of 53 Test matches for 267 wickets, Younis injured his elbow in July. He returned to play with Pakistan during the one-day internationals against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell, who is on his third tour to Pakistan, was hoping for a win. "Pakistan is a very good Test side. They did not click against the Australians and will definitely try to bounce back," he said. "They have two quality Test bowlers (Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram). Not many teams around the world have such a lethal pace attack." said Campbell. The Zimbabwe captain said the wicket at the Arbab Niaz Stadium in Peshawar was "underprepared". He anticipated a low-scoring match. "It looks to be an underprepared wicket to me. We do not have that much grass on the wickets at home. I don’t think it’s a 500 or 600 wicket," Campbell said. However, Sohail said that
the wicket will help seamers in the initial two days
until the grass settled down and then it will be a
batsman’s wicket. |
Coach predicts better performance at Asiad NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (PTI) — Chief national athletic coach Bahadur Singh said today that India would register a far better performance than in the July Asian meet at the 13th Asian Games to be held in Bangkok from December 6 to 20. The former Asian Games shot put gold medallist refused to predict the number of medals from athletics — a paltry one silver and two bronze at Hiroshima in 1994 but an improved tally of one gold, three silver and eight bronze medals at the July Fukuoka Asian athletic championship. "As per training this season, I have no doubt they will do better than they did in Fukuoka. Medals always depend on how other countries do and hence I won’t give any figure," Bahadur Singh said at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, where the athletes entered their final training stretch. The Amateur Athletic Federation of India will hold final trials on December 1 for male javelin thrower Satbir Singh, besides woman shot-putter Harbans Kaur and javelin thrower Gurmeet Kaur — the two have not achieved qualifying marks — and for Jincy Philips and M.K. Asha to pick the reserve runner in the women’s 4 x 100 m relay team. Most of the 27 athletes chosen after the inter-state meet in Calcutta have achieved the qualifying standards with some marginally short of the requirements. Bahadur Singh said veteran track star P.T. Usha had recovered well enough from a hamstring trouble suffered at the recent inter-state meet in Calcutta to touch her peak in Bangkok. "She will definitely do well in Bangkok," he said. The chief coach said unlike earlier occasions, Indian athletes were better prepared for a major international outing like the quadrennial Asian Games. Earlier we used to ask them to touch qualifying marks and they used to touch their peak in advance of such meets. "But now there is more planning. The athletes had touched only their 90 per cent in competition and you will see them go past those marks," he said with much confidence. Asked about Indian throwers coming good only in domestic meets, but faltering against international opposition, Bahadur said that would not be repeated and said even a 20-metre mark by Shakti Singh or Bahadur Singh in shot put "is not impossible." The national record set by Shakti Singh at the recent Calcutta inter-state meet stands at 19.73 metres. The Indian athletic contingent will leave here in two batches. The first batch will emplane for Bangkok on the night of December 8, with the second group scheduled to leave on the night of December 12. Bahadur Singh had much hopes from distance runners Bahadur Prasad, returning to top form after a heel injury, and the diminutive Gulab Chand, who won two medals in 5000-10000 m at the Fukuoka meet. He said China and Sri Lanka would be the ones to look out for in women’s events while Japan, China, Korea and Qatar would be the leading lights among men. UNI adds: Sprint queen P.T. Usha said she was confident of getting back to winning ways in her record fifth appearance in the Asian Games. The ‘Payyoli Express’, who had participated in all five Asian Games from 1982, is among the Indian athletics squad undergoing training at the preparation camp which began at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here yesterday. "I am fully
fit," said Usha, the main medal hope for India. |
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NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (PTI) — The Sports Ministry today cleared both men’s volleyball and football for next month’s Bangkok Asian Games but only on "no cost to government" basis. The Sports Ministry, which vetted the list submitted by the Indian Olympic Association, decided not to clear the two teams at government cost as it felt they did not stand a chance of a medal in the December 6-20 games. However, it was represented that both teams deserved to go to the games. In volleyball, it was argued that though India ended up ninth in the last Asian championship, the team was in good form and was certain to qualify from the easy pool it was placed in. With some luck, the team was capable of landing a medal as it had done at Seoul in 1986, when it last participated, volleyball federation officials argued. The government then decided to clear the team but at no cost to itself. While women’s football got the nod, on men’s football the Indian Olympic Association said that the team needed exposure in an event which would be compulsory in the 2001 Afro-Asian Games. With Volleyball and football getting cleared, India will be participating in 22 disciplines at the quadrennial games. CALCUTTA: Mercurial striker I.M. Vijayan will lead a 20-member Indian men’s football team for the December 6 to 20 Bangkok Asian Games. Kumari Devi will be the skipper of the 18-member women’s squad, the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) secretary K.N. Mour said in a press release here on Thursday. Indian men are with Japan
and Nepal in the group ‘C’ preliminary league. |
SAI
communication causes confusion PATIALA, Nov 26 — With just 10 days to go for the start of the Bangkok Asian Games nearly all pre-Asiad preparatory camps in progress at the NIS here have been thrown in a state of disarray primarily due to a Sports Authority of India (teams wing) communication received by all the chief coaches here today. The SAI teams wing communication has indicated the number of sportspersons to go to Bangkok in each discipline, but surprisingly the names have been withheld. Earlier the Judo Federation of India (JFI) had selected a 14-member squad (7 boys and 7 girls). The number was later reduced to 10. But as per the SAI communication received today by chief coach of the judo squad Nusrat Ali Khan, a six-member contingent will be sent. Whether this includes the chief coach and his assistant Sangeeta Mehta is not known. A visibly upset Nusrat Ali Khan told this correspondent: "The confidence of the judokas has been shaken. The authorities with this attitude are killing whatever medal hopes I had. It is difficult to motivate them during training". The boxing camp in progress at the NIS here has also been badly hit. Earlier the boxing federation had selected six pugilists for Bangkok. But midway during the camp two boxers were dropped with assigning any reason. This announcement came as a major psychological blow for the boxers training for the Asian Games. Now the four Boxers, Dingko Singh, Harpal Singh, Gurcharan Singh and Jitender Singh are facing uncertainty and as it is learnt that the axe may fall on Dingko Singh. The reason being given is that in his weight category (bantam weight) Dingko will have to face an Olympic bronze medalist and a Goodwill Games gold medalist. The IOA feel Dingko is not a medal hope. However, chief coach GS Sandhu is confident that Dingko will be cleared for the Games. The SAI (teams wing) communication is vague as it has mentioned the departure and arrival plans of a six-member squad. No names have been specifically mentioned, although it is assumed that out of the six, four will be pugilists and two coaches. The uncertainty and suspense is proving to be detrimental towards the medal hopes. The wrestling camps (greeco-roman and freestyle) have also been hit. Earlier the lone matman in the greco roman category selected for the Asian Games was Gurbinder Singh. The name of Kaka Pawar was added later. But a strong rumour that Kaka Pawar may not make it has caused among matmen utter confusion. In the freestyle category after a six-member squad was announced, suddenly Rakesh Kumar was dropped. In another late night development the kabaddi players left for New Delhi last night probably to participate in trials. Interestingly, there are two factions in the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) — one led by Kuldeep Vats and the other by JS Gehlot. Till yesterday the camp of one faction was being held at the NIS here while the other faction was holding its camp at Jodhpur. Some players have even moved the Delhi High Court protesting against the delay in announcing the team following which notices were sent to the SAI, IOA and the AKFI. This endless wait for the
Union government's clearance is proving to be an
agonising experience for the campers at the NIS here. The
IOA which harps on the "medal prospect" theory
had recommended a 300-plus contingent for the games.
Despite today's communication from the SAI (teams wing),
no definite figures can be quoted because figures have
changed several times over the past few days. |
Thumping win
for Kila Raipur school LUDHIANA, Nov 26 — Exhibiting excellent ball control, Government Senior Secondary School, Kila Raipur, thrashed Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Bahadurgarh, 8-0 in the inaugural match of the super league phase of the 6th Harbans Singh Pannu Memorial Hockey Tournament for schoolboys being organised by the Aryan Hockey Club at Guru Nanak Stadium here today. Kila Raipur lads were leading 4-0 at half time. Harjeet Singh scored two goals while Nirmal Singh, Amritpal, Sonu, Sawinder, Satinder and Amrik contributed one goal each. In a thrilling encounter in pool ‘A’ Government High School, Roomi, scraped past Lord Mahavir Senior Secondary School, Raikot, 1-0. Both teams displayed good hockey and thwarted many scoring chances. The all-important goal was scored by centre forward Mandeep just few seconds before the long whistle. In pool ‘D’ Ropar Hockey Academy began their campaign on a triumphant note when they prevailed over their spirited opponents Government Senior Secondary School, Kamalpura, 1-0. Ropar lads earned as many as 10 penalty corners but they failed to capitalise on them. Centre forward Gurnam Singh scored the much-needed goal in the 51st minute. In another match, Shivalik Public School, Chandigarh, outplayed Lala Lajpat Rai Senior Secondary School, Doodike, 4-1 after establishing a 2-0 lead at the lemon break. For Chandigarh, centre forward Sandeep Kumar struck twice while right out Lakhwinder and left out Rajbir scored one goal each. Centre forward Tejinder reduced the margin for Doodike. Earlier, before the start
of the tournament a two-minute silence was observed in
memory of those who were killed in a train accident near
Khanna this morning. |
Beijing bids for 2008 Olympics BEIJING, Nov 26 (PTI) — As part of China’s renewed attempt to host the world’s most coveted sporting event, the Chinese capital, Beijing, today officially announced its bid to stage the 2008 summer Olympics. Beijing Mayor Jia Qinglin presented the application to Chinese Olympic Committee (coc), president, Wu Shaozu during a ceremony at the great hall of the people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Commenting on Beijing’s bid, Wu, also China’s Minister of State for Sports General administration, said it had been made after "careful consideration". "The coc and Beijing have both studied the feasibility of another bid", he said. "We think that as the world’s most populous country with a vigorous and growing economy, China should host the Olympic Games and make contributions to the Olympic movement", he said. Beijing lost to Sydney by two votes in the 1993 selection for the host of the 2000 games. "Coc is happy to receive the application (of Beijing)", Wu said. Xinhua said the coc will hold a meeting early next January to discuss Beijing’s bid. "If Beijing’s application is accepted, the coc will officially submit the bid to the International Olympic Committee (ioc)", the report said. After losing the 2000 Olympics bid, Beijing did not pursue the 2004 Olympics bid. "China bade for the 2000 Olympics but lost to Sydney by a narrow margin of two votes at the ioc election in Monte Carlo in 1993. Many people in China and foreign friends have expressed their hope that China would bid again for the Olympic Games", Wu was quoted as saying. The ioc is expected to open the bidding process for the 2008 Olympics next year and the selection of the host city will take place in 2001. Other countries, like Argentina, Canada, Japan, Spain and Turkey have already announced their intention to bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. AFP adds from Hong Kong: Hong Kong will press ahead with plans to share the 2008 Olympic Games with China, sports officials said today while admitting a formal application by Beijing slimmed the territory’s chances. The Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong is pushing to co-host the games with neighbouring cities in southern China. "We have been lobbying hard for Shanghai and Guangzhou," said committee spokesman Bernard Fong. "Beijing would make the logistics that much harder. We would also be competing with other northern cities such as Tianjin. Down south it seems obvious for Hong Kong to share", he said. Beijing while formally
announcing its bid today for the games did not rule out
other cities from applying. |
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KOZHIKODE, Nov 26 (PTI) — Former world under-10 boys champion Pendyala Harikrishna stunned GM Igor Natae of France to keep himself on course for a maiden International Master norm while Darmen Saduakasov of Kazakhstan maintain his sole lead in the boys section of the World Junior Chess today. Saduavkasov maintained his one-point lead after the ninth round of competition by reaching eight points, after beating Fressinet Laurent of France in a French defence game. Harikrishna played a remarkable game to beat fifth seed Igor Natae in an English opening game to log six points. He can win his maiden norm from the remaining games. Among other Indians, R.R. Laxman lost to fourth seed Banikas Hristodoulos of Greece while Satyapragyan drew with IM Andrei Florean of Romania to reach 5.5 points and keep his chances of getting an IM norm intact. IM K. Sasikiran did well to bounce back to the main level with a convincing 34-move win over Simon Williams of England in English opening to log 5.5 points. In the girls section, 12-year-old Koneru Humpy (5.5) lost to leader Hoang Thanh Trang of Vietnam on the top board. Trang kept her one point lead over Monika Bobrowska and Iweta Radziewics (both Poland) who are joint second with seven points each. IWM Vijayalakshmi Subburaman reached six points with a good win over Ratcu Tatiana of Brazil. Her younger sister Meenakshi and Swathi Mohota lost to Xu Yuan Yuan (China) and Ziulle (Lithuania) respectively. Pallavi Shah beat teammate Aartie Ramaswamy while Swathi Ghate lost to Bobrowska in Sicilian defence on the second board. Pratibha lost to Smaklovic of Bosnia. In boys, Laxman could not
continue his good run as he lost to fourth seed
Hristodoulos in just 27 moves. After losing two pawns in
a rook ending, still Laxman finished his first IM norm in
nine rounds. |
Innings
victory for Haryana ROHTAK, Nov 26 — Haryana registered victory over Jammu and Kashmir with a convincing margin of an innings and 176 runs on the third and final day of their Vijay Merchant Trophy encounter at Vishwakarma Stadium here today. On resumption of play today the visitors, who were 35 for 2 in their second innings after facing follow on, needed another 228 runs to make Haryana bat again. But their batsman lacked willingness to stay at the wicket and show some resistance. Haryana did not need any extra effort to complete their second successive victory with an innings margin over their rivals in the Vijay Merchant Trophy this season. Haryana bowlers had to bowl only 31.5 overs today to consume the remaining eight J and K wickets to fold their inning at 87. Only two batsmen — Vimarsh (17) and Inderjeet Singh (30) could reach double figures. For Haryana right arm leg spinner Ashwani turned out to be the wrecker-in-chief consuming six out of the eight wickets which fell today. The leggie had struck thrice in the first innings also. The remaining two wickets were shared by Gaurav Vashishta (8-5-9-1) and Deepak Joon 2-0-5-1. Haryana has got eight
points from today's victory. |
Haryana
skating meet from today CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 — As many as 400 skaters from 14 districts, including those who have played at the international level, will be seen in action in the 12th Haryana State Roller Skating Championship scheduled to start at the Sector 10 skating rink here tomorrow. Stating this here today, Mr Sushil Kumar, president, Haryana State Roller Skating Association, said Manmohan Singh, Ranjana Suri (both Karnal), Harmeet Kaur, Madhu Monga (both Faridabad), Meenakshi Kohli (Panchkula) and Rishu Bhatia (Panipat) who participated in the seventh Asian Roller Skating Championship in South Korea are the prominent skaters in the three-day championship. Manmohan, a promising skater is at present, getting advanced training in the USA. Mr Sushil Kumar said the association would give cash awards of Rs 5100 each to all the six international players during the championship. Besides, John David and A.D. Sharma, coaches working with Haryana Youth Welfare Department, will be awarded Rs 7500 each during the championship. He said that 44 skaters from Haryana participated in the national championship held at Pune last year. As many as 12 medals were won by the shooters from the state in different events like speed and hockey. The women’s hockey team won a bronze in the seventh Asian Championship. Mr Sarkar Talwar, secretary of the association, informed that an international standard roller skating rink was being constructed at Faridabad at an estimated cost of Rs 25 lakh. This will be the part of the district sports complex being constructed by the district sports council. The land for the complex was given by HUDA to the Haryana Sports Department. Mrs Rajni Thareja, president, Roller Skating Association of Panchkula, revealed that Hansraj Public School, Sector 6 had a skating rink offering excellent facilities for the youngsters. Haryana, in fact, is the only state having two banked tracks of international standard. Mr Charan Dass Shorewala,
Finance Minister, Haryana, would inaugurate the
championship at 3 p.m., while Mr R.S. Verma, Chief
Secretary to Government, Haryana would be the Chief guest
on the concluding day’s ceremony at 12 noon. |
Akhtar Ali
honoured NEW DELHI, Nov 26 — Akhtar Ali was honoured by the United States Professional Tennis Registry (USPTR) for his contribution to the cause of tennis at the Delhi Gymkhana here today. World famous coach and Usptr master professional Louie Cap, who held a workshop in this country, said that Akhtar Ali was modest enough to say that he was "learning every day". While accepting the certificate, Akhtar Ali's advice to prospective coaches was to be humble and modest. "You should always learn to respect your coach teacher", emphasised Ali to the trainees. While awarding certificates to coaches in five categories — master professional, professional, instructor, associate instructor and non-tested — the Peninsula Tennis Academy (PTA) Director-Bobby Singh said "We will now recognise coaches every year." The Indian coaches, now an integral part of the worldwide USPTR network, have access to the latest coaching aids, educational manuals, videos and other research material. The USPTR has more than
10,000 members worldwide in 123 countries in India. There
are already more than 200 certified members. |
Faridkot
athletes hog limelight MANSA, Nov 26 — The wrestlers of Faridkot police won the gold medal in the freestyle category by getting 58 points in the Faridkot police range annual games being held at Nehru Memorial College on the second day here today. Wrestlers of Bathinda came second while the Mansa got the third position in this event. In the wrestling (Greeco) style, Bathinda police wrestlers won the gold medal while Faridkot and Mansa police wrestlers stood second and third, respectively. Mr Sanjay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, gave away the prizes. In the 200 (women) race, Birpal Kaur came first, Paramjit Kaur of Bathinda was second while Harjinder Kaur of Mansa got the third position. In the 100m (Women) race Ranjit Kaur of Faridkot won the first place, Harjinder Kaur of Mansa came second and Jaswinder Kaur of Bathinda was third. In the long jump, Ranjit Kaur of Faridkot won the gold medal while Jaswinder Kaur of Bathinda won the silver medal and Jaspal Kaur of Faridkot bagged the bronze. In discus throw, Jaspal Kaur of Faridkot came first, Ranjit Kaur of Faridkot and Jaswinder Kaur of Bathinda came second and third respectivley. In the 100 m (men) Karamjit Singh and Major Singh of Faridkot won first and second positions respectively while Jasmel Singh of Bathinda stood third. In hammer throw, Bhupinder
Singh of Faridkot, Naginder Singh of Bathinda and Upkar
Singh of Faridkot stood first, second and third,
respectively. In long jump, Kamaljit Singh of Faridkot
Naginder Singh of Bathinda and Iqbal Chand of Faridkot
bagged first second and third spots, respectively. |
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Naresh, Rajiv leading CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 (BOSR) — Naresh Kumar of Border Security Force was leading with a score of 143/150 in the fire pistol (ISU open category) in the 23rd Northern India Shooting-1998 being held at Patiali Rao Shooting Ranges, Sector 25, here under the aegis of the National Rifle Association of India and Chandigarh Rifle Association. Poojnam Kumar also of BSF follows Naresh in the centre fire pistol event while Subhash Rana of Central Industrial Security Force has the same score as P. Kumar's, but with two scores down in the last card thus stands third. CBSE volleyball meet results CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 (BOSR) — Pandit Mohan Lal SD Public School, Sector 32, is playing host to the first North East Zone CBSE Volleyball Tournament for boys and girls which was inaugurated today by Mr K K Sharma PCS (Retd.). Twenty teams from the north east zone schools affiliated to the CBSE, Delhi are taking part in this three-day tournament. In the first match, GGPS, Bokaro downed Apeejay School, Jalandhar, 15-2, 15-10. Lanka pull out of Asian Games hockey PATIALA, Nov 26 (BOSR) — The unexpected withdrawal of Sri Lanka from the Asian game womens hockey tournament has firmly put the Indians on the medal path. According to a message received here this afternoon by the chief coach of the Indian women's hockey team, Mr G.S. Bhangu from the Bangkok Asian Games Organising Committee (BAGOC), the Sri Lankans have withdrawn from both the womens and the men's hockey tournaments. While Sri Lanka have been replaced by Hong Kong (China) in the men's tournament, it is Sri Lanka's withdrawal from the women's tournament that seems to be hogging all the spotlight. |
Shivalik boys lift u-19 soccer title CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 (TNS) — Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, defeated SD Public School, Sector 32, 4-3 via the tie breaker and lifted the Deepak Kampania Memorial Trophy in the Chandigarh Junior Football league (under-19) at the Football Stadium, Sector 17, here today. The championship was sponsored by Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, and was organised by the Chandigarh Football Association. Four outstanding players were awarded trophies and cash prizes of Rs 200 each. The players are Vikram (Coaching Centre, Sector 17) Gurpreet Singh (Shivalik School), Atish (Coaching Centre-17) and Satinder Rawat (Sanjay Public School). Cricket match NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (BOSR) — A number of former Test stars will be seen in action in the Sheel Vohra farewell cricket match at the Roshanara Club on December 1. The match has been organised by the Doon School Old Boys Society to bid farewell to their longest serving teacher, Sheel. Kapil Dev will captain the team titled "Rest of the world." Michael Dalvi will captain Doon School XI. Vohra himself will wear the long coat to give his decisions as an umpire and not as a teacher. Vohra played for UP in the Ranji Trophy in 1965-68. GMSSS-35 enter semis CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 (BOSR) — Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35 reached the last four stages in the under-14 section of the UT Inter-School Cricket Tournament being played here today. In the quarterfinal, they got the better of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, by 65 runs. HP volleyball meet from Dec 4 SOLAN, Nov 26 (FOC) — The HP State Volleyball Championships for men and women will be held at Thodo grounds here from December 4 to 6, according to organising secretary Ramesh Chauhan. All the twelve district-level teams and leading clubs of Himachal have confirmed their participation. Mr Hari Narayan Saini, Minister of State for Country and Town Planning will inaugurate the meet. The state team for the nationals scheduled to be held at Chensura (West Bengal) from December 24 to 31 will also be made during championships. Emphatic victory for HPS CHANDIGARH, Nov 26 (BOSR)
— Hansraj Public School, Panchkula, scored an
emphatic 96-run win over DC Model School, Sector 7,
Panchkula, in the final of the Panchkula district cricket
tournament organised by the district administration,
Panchkula. In all 16 teams from various units
participated. The main architects of the victory were
Aparshakti and Vishal Goyal who scored 47 and 45 runs,
respectively. In bowling skipper Nitin Gandhi took three
wickets for three runs while Nikhil got three wickets for
just two runs. Hansraj School made 179 runs in the
stipulated 25 overs while DC Model School boys were
bundled out for only 83 runs. |
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