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Popov, Alshammar lead
teams to win DORTMUND, July 10 —Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of India scored a thumping victory over Jeroen Piket of Netherlands to take the sole lead with 2.5 points after the third round of Dortmund Sparkassen Chess tournament here.
East Bengal regain McDowell Cup CALCUTTA, July 10 — Former champions East Bengal regained the McDowell Cup soccer title after two years defeating arch rivals Mohun Bagan 1-0 in an absorbing final of the meet’s seventh version at Salt Lake Stadium here today. Women boxers to vie for honours
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Sampras rewrites tennis history LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) — Pete Sampras made tennis history at Wimbledon yesterday by beating Australian Pat Rafter 6-7, (10-12) 7-6, (7-5) 6-4, 6-2 to win the men’s final for the seventh time and claim a record-breaking 13th Grand Slam title. The 28-year-old defending champion and top seed flung his arms up in delight and wiped tears from his eyes after Rafter, twice US Open champion, put another huge Sampras serve wide on the first match point on Centre Court. Sampras then scrambled up into the stands to embrace his parents, Georgia and Sam, who had come to Wimbledon for the first time to watch their son equal William Renshaw’s 19th century record of seven titles. Roy Emerson of Australia had held the Grand Slam record of 12 titles for more than 30 years before Sampras equalled it last year at Wimbledon. Yesterday’s match had been interrupted twice by rain and was finished in fast fading light. “It means so much to me that my parents were here today and they could share it with me,’’ Sampras said later. “It’s always special to win here but I needed a little help from upstairs,’’ he said referring to the second set tie break when he was 1-4 down. “It’s my home away from home.’’ Rafter won a rain-interrupted first set 7-6 (12-10) and Sampras came back with a 7-5 score in the second set tie-break. The Queenslander, seeded 12, had struggled against the top seed during most of the first set, but came good in a nerve-racking tie-break as Sampras served two double faults. Rafter, who had endured a tougher build-up including a five-set semifinal win against No. 2 seed Andre Agassi, was more vulnerable on his serve. His first serve did not have the power or speed of his opponent’s and he had to fight through six deuces in the seventh game to hold serve and go 4-3 up. Play was then suspended for 21 minutes because of the rain. Sampras returned to level at 4-4 with a serve game to 15 and Rafter again struggled on his own serve before the rain fell again with the game poised at the third deuce. He had saved three break points until that point. The players were off for more than two hours and Rafter came back to serve a double fault to concede a fourth break point. But he held his nerve, saved it and went on the win the game. Both players then held serve to force a tie-break. Sampras earned two set points and thumped down two aces during the tie-break. Rafter earned four set points and served one ace. But it was Sampras’s unaccustomed two double faults that made the difference, his second giving Rafter the set. The second set went with serve, but Sampras looked slightly more vulnerable than in the first, being pushed to deuce in the third game. Rafter had conceded a break point the game before, but saved it with a big serve and looked to attack Sampras’s second serve. Sampras served a double fault to lose the first point of the tie-break and suddenly found himself 1-4 down. Rafter clenched his fist and shouted in triumph, but the celebration was short-lived. Sampras went on to win the next five points. Rafter saved the first set point with a backhand volley but Sampras took the set with a forehand volley as evening fell over the All-England Club. The first break of the match went to the champion in the fifth game of the third set. Rafter had gone 0-40 down but fought back to save three points with a big kick serve. A backhand stop volley and a Sampras forehand error. But he could not convert two advantages and double-faulted for a fourth break point. He then missed a sitting forehand volley to hand Sampras the lead. Games went with serve there after so that Sampras was able to serve for the third set. He did so majestically to love with three aces and another huge serve that Rafter put into the net. The two continued as darkness crept across the Centre Court and it was the more experienced grasscourt player who took his chances. He broke a visibly tiring Rafter’s serve in the fifth game of the fourth set after the Australian missed two volleys and a half-volley at the net. Rafter, steely nerved, saved two break points but Sampras won the game with a mishit backhand that landed just inside the line. Rafter misjudged it and let it go. Rafter earned break point, only his second of the match, against Sampras’s serve the next game but put a backhand return into the net. Sampras still struggled to win the game going to three more deuces but eventually held with consecutive aces. Sampras was now on a roll with a 4-2 lead. He broke Rafter’s serve again the following game as the tiring Australian put a volley long. He then raced through his own service game and won it on the first match point when Rafter put a forehand return wide. |
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Williams sisters lift crown LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) — Singles champion Venus Williams sealed her second Wimbledon title today when she and younger sister Serena won a rain-delayed women’s doubles final 6-3 6-2 against Julie Halard-Decugis of France and Japan’s AI Sugiyama. Perhaps still tired after attending the champions’ dinner yesterday night, Venus took a while to find her range, losing her first two service games to fall behind 3-2 in the opening set. But then the power of the American eighth seeds took over in an entertaining final. They won eight games in a row on Centre Court against the fourth seeds to win the title with an ace from Serena. It is the Williams’s third Grand Slam doubles title after they won the U.S. Open and French Open crowns last year. The sisters entered the tournament on a wildcard after not playing together since the U.S. Open because of injury. Venus won the Wimbledon singles on Saturday — her first Grand Slam singles title — by beating Lindsay Davenport 6-3 7-6. |
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Sydney countdown — 7 Should Serena Williams not qualify for the US team to compete at the Sydney Olympics, her big sister Venus, now Wimbledon champion, may also declare herself an absentee. Under Olympic rules, the top players who qualify must be picked for the team. Each country has been granted only three singles places, to be decided on WTA Tour rankings, and if the cut was to be made today, Serena would not make it. Ahead of the US Open champion are Atlanta gold medallist and losing Wimbledon finalist Lindsay Davenport, Monica Seles and Wimbledon champion sister Venus. The only vacancy for Serena, may be on the doubles court. Her semifinal appearance at Wimbledon last week (where she lost to Venus) might serve her in good stead to make the games team. After her first Grand Slam title on Saturday, Venus said her father, Richard, had videotaped the Olympic Games for as long as she could remember. “We watched every one of them,” she said. “This is something I think everyone grows up with, especially if you’re a sports player.” So, had it not been tennis, was there any other Olympic sport Venus would have liked to contest? “Archery.” Why? “There’s no running or things like that involved.” So you’re lazy? “Yeah!” Incidentally, Billie Jean King, whose team swept the gold medals in Atlanta, will return to the Olympics this September as coach of the US women’s tennis team. Pierce-Noah French feud Another top women’s player who might miss out on Sydney is Frenchwoman Mary Pierce. Although she has been embraced by fans in France, it’s unclear whether she’ll play for her country at this year’s Olympics. Because of a dispute with French Federation Cup captain Yannick Noah, Pierce hasn’t made herself available to play for the team since early 1998. Following her victory in this year’s French Open final, Pierce refused to discuss the issue or whether she wants to play at the Sydney games in September. Pierce played 17 matches for France beginning in 1993. But after Noah took over as captain, he and Pierce clashed in early 1998 regarding when she would arrive for matches and other issues. Noah felt Pierce shouldn’t be granted special consideration. She hasn’t played for France since. Dokic back in Olympic fold Meanwhile, in a change of heart that will please tennis fans but which may have sent a small shudder through the SOCOG, controversial Australia teenage star Jelena Dokic has declared she will represent Australia at the Olympics. The Wimbledon 2000 semi finalist said her “annoyance over an article that appeared during the Australian Open was not worth denying herself the opportunity to participate in September”. Dokic was referring to an article in which she reportedly claimed the draws at some tennis tournaments had been rigged to impede her progress, supposedly as punishment for the misbehaviour of her father, Damir. Subsequently, Dokic told another magazine (in an interview for which she was paid) that she would not play at the Olympics in retaliation for the negative way in which she had been portrayed in the Melbourne press. She would go on a holiday instead with her family. Dokic’s failure to represent Australia at the Olympics would have been particularly embarrassing for games organisers given that she accepted an ambassadorial role after making the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year. In the name of the money The Catholic Church has entered the spirit of Olympic commerce. Cashing in on a shortage of accommodation close to the main Olympic site at Homebush Bay, the church has leased a seminary to games sponsor Telstra. The seminary is home to 25 novitiates studying theology, and a handful of permanent staff. With the academic year suspended during the Games, the students will move out and the permanent staff will move in to shared accommodation on the site. Telstra plans to move up to 60 of its on-call technical staff into three houses, paying the church an undisclosed amount. A church spokesman, Father Brian Lucas declined to reveal what Telstra was paying to lease the site, a 30-minute walk to Homebush Bay. He said it was good business sense to rent out the site. Schools and colleges around Sydney are leasing accommodation to help ease the expected Olympic crush. Olympic dreams shattered This is a story that has made blokes bred on beer and steak cry, the story of a local hero who recently ran in the Olympic torch relay but who can’t run in the Olympics because he was hit by a car. On the eve of his first selection race, elite Australian triathlete Brad Beven was knocked off his bike on a zebra crossing in the northern Queensland city of Cairns and was rushed to hospital with broken ribs and shattered dreams. Beven is famous for swimming with crocodiles in the town’s rain-swollen rivers and wrestling wallabies that have attacked him as he’s run through bush trials. His exploits have been committed to CD in a song and he was also one of the pioneers who successfully lobbied to get the new Olympic sport of triathlon into the programme for Sydney. So when he was lying pale, pathetic and pained in a hospital bed with four broken ribs and extensive bruising, instead of racing with his team-mates for Olympics selection at the Opera House three months ago, much of north Queensland went into mourning. Because he couldn’t compete in the Olympic selection races he was not named in the triathlon team. So he appealed. He lost his appeal recently. While he’s still stiff and sore from the April 15 car accident, seeing anything to do with the Olympics hurts more. He went to the Olympic swimming trials and sympathised with Sam Riley, who comes from the same management stable, when she didn’t make the team. At least she had a go. Beven was even robbed of the traditional Australian ‘fair go’. — PGM (The writer is a well-known sports journalist now settled in Australia.) |
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Wimbledon-2000 Men’s final had everything going for it Finally, Pete Sampras walked into the history books doing what he does best and at a place that had already become his second home. Sampras beat the Australian Pat Rafter seeded 12 in four sets in the Wimbledon singles final giving him his incredible seventh title at the All-England Club and his 13th Grand Slam title overall. He was tied with Emerson’s 12 titles coming into the championships and he knew this was the best surface to do it and that time was running out. At age 28 and a chronic bad back, it was not going to be long before his chances of winning another title went away. So at 8.57 pm on Sunday night he completed his win and did what no man has ever done or is likely to do and took his place in history. William Renshaw won Wimbledon seven times in the 1880s but that was when they had the challenge round where the winner only match the final — once everyone else had through the draw and a challenger rose from among them. But today as we know it is seven rounds against the toughest competition. The match itself came down to two tie-breaks and who would handle the rain delays well enough. With two of the best serve and volleyers in the world playing each other, one of them chasing history and the other desperate to be part of it, the men’s final appeared to have everything going for it. It was a contest between perfection and attraction — Sampras could never figure out what the public wanted from him while Rafter just had to smile and the crowd would melt before him. Sampras has been looking for the perfection that kept him at No 1 on the ATP ranking for so long and when he comes to the All-England Club his eyes usually light up and he knows he is at home. But this time was different. He came in with injuries and desperate to break Roy Emerson’s 12 Grand Slam titles record, he knew he was not really tested, in the first six rounds. He never played a seed till the final. He knew Rafter was going to be his biggest test. The match came down to the first two tie-breaks. The first one, in which Sampras had several chances to break in the set and two more in the tie-break, went Rafter’s way after two double faults from the champion. When he lost the first set tie-break 12/10, I thought maybe, just maybe, the enormity of the occasion might be too much even for Sampras. In the second set, again, Sampras had chances to break but could not convert. It came down to the second set tie-break and when yet again he served the double fault to open and got down 1-4 with Rafter, to serve, I was sure my instincts were right. But I should have guessed that if Sampras was caught up in history then so was Rafter in his own way. There is no question that the Australian tightened up and his double fault came. Once the hurdle of the second set was crossed, Sampras knew his only danger was past. He became the Sampras of old and the winner, came freely of both flanks. The crucial break in the third set, started to see Sampras head for home, as Rafter had nothing more to offer. You could almost see Rafter settling for second place in his mind before the match ended. As Sampras sent down another rocket for a serve on match point, his feeling all came pouring out. A man who always maintained calmness through his first six Wimbledon victories broke down on Centre Court. Going up into the player’s box he hugged his parents watching him win here for the first time and took his place in the history. Wimbledon continues to have the magic that will never end. I have always enjoyed coming here and it was wonderful to see history being
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Popov, Alshammar lead teams to win HELSINKI, July 10 (AFP) — Russian swimming legend Alexander Popov and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar were the stars of the European Swimming Championships on the final day here. They each came away with two gold medals after leading their respective national teams to victory in the medley relays which concluded the championships yesterday. Olympic champion Popov clocked 21.95 seconds in the men’s 50 metres freestyle, with Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband, winner of six titles last year in Istanbul, having to settle for second in 22.35 and Italy’s Lorenzo Vismara in third at 22.38. As well as his victory in Wednesday’s 100 metres freestyle in 48.61 seconds, Popov also went on to win the 4x100m medley relay with the Russian team. “My times could have been better but it was an easy race,” said a confident Popov, after reclaiming the 50 metres and 100 metres freestyle titles he lost to Van den Hoogenband at the 1999 championships in Istanbul. The 28-year-old Canberra-based swimmer has shown that he is in top form in his bid for Olympics glory in Sydney this September. He is aiming to achieve what no other swimmer has ever achieved — double gold in the 50 metres and 100 metres freestyle for the third time, after his exploits in Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta in 1996. Alshammar fell just short of the 24.39 world record of Dutch swimmer Inge de Bruijn, when she won the women’s 50 metres freestyle crown in 24.44, coming in ahead of Wilma van Rijn (25.46) of the Netherlands and Ukraine’s Olga Mukomol 25.54. The Swedish swimmer also added the medley relay to her medals haul in addition to the gold she won in Wednesday’s 100 metres freestyle. Russian-born Spanish swimmer Nina Zhivanevskaya came away with three gold medals after winning the women’s 50 metres backstroke in 28.76 following a battle with Romania’s Diana Mocanu in 28.85 and Ilona Hlavackova of the Czech Republic 29.18. Zhivanevskaya had already won the 200 metres backstroke final last Tuesday and the 100 backstroke final on Friday. Istvan Bathazi of Hungary won the men’s 400 metres individual medley title with Romania’s Cezar Badita second and Johann Le Bihan of France third. Ukrainian Jana Klochkova also won a third gold with the women’s 400 metres freestyle title, ahead of Natalia Baranouskaya of Belorussia and Romania’s Camelia Potec third. Her other successes were in 200 metres and 400 metres individual medleys. Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak won the women’s 200 metres butterfly, while Russia’s Dmitry Sautin took the men’s 10 metres diving gold medal. Sweden and Russia topped the medals table with six gold medals each, with Italy in third position with five. Sweden won a total of 10 medals — six gold, two silver and two bronze, Russia seven (6-0-1) and Italy 11 (5-5-1). |
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DORTMUND, July 10 (PTI) —Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of India scored a thumping victory over Jeroen Piket of Netherlands to take the sole lead with 2.5 points after the third round of Dortmund Sparkassen Chess tournament here. Grandmasters Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, Peter Leko of Hungary and Michael Adams of England along with the computer programme Junior 6 trail the leader by 0.5 points to be in the joint second spot. In the only decisive game of the day, Anand, playing with white pieces, made short work of Piket who looked out of sorts. Anand started the game by moving his king pawn forward and was up against the Arkhengelsk variation of the Ruy Lopez opening. He then embarked on a relatively less played move on the 14th turn and Piket responded with a lacklustre ‘h6’ that weakened his kingside. This was enough for Anand to launch an attack against the king by gaining vital central control. In a bid to revive his position, Piket initiated unwarranted tactical complications with an exchange sacrifice on the 18th move. The position however remained beyond repair as Anand found a simple rook manoeuvre that claimed Piket’s queen and the game after 28 moves. Kramnik applied a rare variation against the Slav defence of compatriot Evgeny Bareev but could not claim any advantage after the opening despite his white pieces. Tactical complications arose in the middlegame and the pieces got exchanged in a tandem. The players signed truce after the 21st move in a rook and minor piece endgame. Leko settled for a draw with Vladimir Akopian of Armenia after just 15 moves. Playing with white pieces, Leko was up against the Rubinstin variation of the French defence and routine manoeuvres followed till the 10th move. |
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NEW DELHI, July 10 (PTI) — The CBI has so far examined nearly 30 bookies across the country in connection with their alleged involvement in the cricket match-fixing scandal, agency sources said here today. The sources said bookies were examined by the sleuths of Special Crime Branch in cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow. Some of the bookies have told the investigators about their modus operandi in fixing matches, the sources claimed. However, the sources said none of them has given anything concrete about their links with players in the Indian team. The investigation was going to take some more time as some of the former players, whom the agency wanted to examine in the case, were out of the country, they said. The sources said the brief given to the agency was to probe all aspects of the controversy — from questionable television contracts to lack of transparency in the BCCI to match-fixing and exuded confidence that the investigating agency would be able to go to the root of the scandal. The agency was planning to question a few former skippers including Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar, the sources said. CBI will request Shastri to appear before it once he returns to India after completing his assignment as commentator for the ongoing Singer Cup tournament in Sri Lanka, they said. The CBI will be recording Shastri’s statement as he had corraborated Manoj Prabhakar’s claim that he had been briefed about cricketing icon Kapil Dev’s alleged offer of a bribe of Rs 25 lakh to Prabhakar to
underperform in a one-dayer against Pakistan during a 1994 triangular in Sri Lanka. Kapil Dev has denied Prabhakar’s allegations. Shastri had reportedly told a website immediately after Prabhakar went public with his allegation that he was approached by Prabhakar and was briefed about the alleged offer for underperforming in the match. |
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Pak threatens
to boycott SA tie NEW DELHI, July 10 (PTI) — Reacting sharply to the match referee’s decision to suspend paceman Waqar Younis for ball-tampering, the Pakistan Cricket Board has threatened to pull out of Wednesday’s tri-series match against South Africa if John Reid continued to remain in the job. PCB accused Reid of being biased against Pakistan and said it will despatch a strong protest letter to ICC enlisting its grievances against the referee, reports website Narad Online. “I don’t think this man (Reid) is fair. And we have conveyed our feelings to the ICC, we are even considering not playing against South Africa on Wednesday if he continued to remain match referee,” PCB Chairman Tauqir Zia was quoted as saying. |
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AAFI to dope test record-breaking athletes PATIALA
July 10 — In a major policy decision,the Amateur Athletic Federation of India
(AAFI) has from now onwards decided to dope test all athletes who create a new national record in any event in any AAFI conducted meet. This new development was confirmed by a spokesperson of the AAFI who said that the dope tests would be conducted on record-breaking athletes beginning with the all-important AAFI sponsored circuit meet which commences at Bangalore from July 17,which is also a qualifying meet for the Jakarta Asian Track and Field meet and the Sydney Olympics. Top AAFI sources maintain that dope tests on athletes were on the cards ever since
P.T. Usha’s recent outburst against the AAFI on the dope testing issue.
P.T. Usha has gone on record as saying that before the AAFI ratifies the spate of new records created in recent weeks, it should dope test all the record breakers. It may be recalled that
P.T. Usha’s three national records, considered to be major landmarks in Indian athletics, were shattered in recent weeks. Railways middle distance runner K. Beenamol started the assault at an international meet at Kiev, a couple of weeks ago, toppling the long standing 400m record of
P.T. Usha. Two more records — the 100m and the 200m — fell to Railways Rachita Mistry and LIC’s Vineeta Tripathi four days ago at an AAFI domestic meet at Bangalore. Now,
P.T. Usha, has just one mark — the 400m hurdles — left in her name. In yet another decision the
AAFI, from July 17, has decided to do away with dope testing athletes days in advance of a meet. Now, sources confirm, top athletes will be picked up for random testing just prior to a meet, and if the need arises, samples will be collected immediately after a new national record is created during the meet itself. At a seminar held at the NIS here last year, Kamaljit
Sandhu, the first Indian woman to win a gold in the Asian games and Rome Olympian
G.S. Randhawa had urged the AAFI top brass to make the procedure of dope testing compulsory and more stringent. Sources say that the samples will be tested at the New Delhi based SAI laboratory, which, however, is not an International Olympic Committee (IOC) accredited lab. However, to upgrade the facilities at the New Delhi SAI laboratory and in order to meet the stringent IOC accredition requirements, the AAFI had recently invited two German experts to evaluate the existing facilities at the SAI lab and also to suggest new equipment that may be required. The SAI laboratory, according to AAFI sources, is expected to be accredited before the Afro-Asian games slated to be held at New Delhi next year.  |
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Selection trials CHANDIGARH, July 10 — The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has decided to start a centre of excellence in hockey for women at the Sector 42 hockey stadium here from this academic year, according to Dr P.C. Kashyap, Regional Director of the Sports Authority of India. The selection trials for the girls, in the age group of 13 to 21 years, will be conducted on July 13 and 14 at the Sector 42 hockey stadium. All girls who have represented their states in the national championships and attained good positions as also those who are currently attending national coaching camps are eligible to take part in these selection trials. Dr Kashyap said these trials would be held on an all-India basis. The trainees selected for the centre of excellence will be provided free board and lodging at the rate of Rs 100 per day for 200 days in a year as also free travel by AC two-tier from home town and back twice a year. For non-residential trainees suitable stipends will be provided on monthly basis. The trainees will also be provided domestic competition exposure, medical and life insurance, sport kit at the rate of Rs 6000 per year, two sets of personal playing equipment as also medical facilities. Dr Kashyap also said the trainees would have the support of experts in the field of psychology and other experts in the field of sports medicine. He added that selection trials for induction of talented girls at the STC at Badal will also be held on July 13. Trials will be held in the disciplines of hockey, volleyball, basketball, athletics and shooting in the age group of 13 to 19 years. Girls interested in taking part in the trials are to report to Ms Ritu Pathak, Assistant Director, SAI training centre, Sector 18, on July 13. All girls must bring all certificates in original and photocopies of their sports achievements as also complete sport kit. |
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East Bengal regain McDowell Cup CALCUTTA, July 10 (UNI) — Former champions East Bengal regained the McDowell Cup soccer title after two years defeating arch rivals Mohun Bagan 1-0 in an absorbing final of the meet’s seventh version at Salt Lake Stadium here today. The goal, which enabled runners up East Bengal to win this six-team championship, known as season opener, was beautifully netted by medio Anit Ghosh a minute before the breather. East Bengal Striker Dipendu Biswas dodged past a couple of Bagan defenders and passed the ball to unmarked Anit who was lurking inside Bagan box. The latter drove home amidst cheers from their supporters. With this victory, East Bengal bagged this prestigious tournament for the third time having won it during 1995 and 1997 earlier, while Mohun Bagan, which earned the title once in 1996, had to be contended being runners up this time as well. |
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Women boxers to vie
for honours CHENNAI, July 10 (PTI) — For the first time, women pugilists would be seen in action in an official championship, as boxers from five states vie for honours in the Federation Cup (men and women) Championship commencing here tomorrow. Events in light weight, light fly, light welter, fly bantam, feather light and welter weight would be held in the women’s section, tournament organising secretary A.K. Karunakaran said. According to him, this is the first time women boxing in a tournament in the country has been accorded championship status. It was felt that this would be first step for the women to slowly graduate to international status. Women competing in the WWF Championship has been cited as reason for the rising popularity on the distaff side in India. Women boxers will fight for medals in six categories and teams from Punjab (5), Delhi (4), Madhya Pradesh (3), Andhra (2) and Tamil Nadu (10) have entered the fray. The men’s section will sorely feel the absence of four topnotch boxers who are in a camp in Cuba in preparation for the Sydney Olympics. The four are Dingko Singh of the Services (bantam weight), Suresh Singh (CSIF-lt fly), Jitender Singh (Railways-middle) and Gurcharan Singh (Services-heavy). Only 23 teams had confirmed participation earlier, but in all 30 teams, besides the women, have already arrived here. Institutional teams mainly from the Railways, Services, Steel Plant and MEG are expected to prevail in all the 12-weight categories. Following are the prominent boxers who would be seen in action: Lalit Prasad (lt fly), Bhusan Saini (lt welter), Ajay Sangwan (lt-heavy), V. Baskaran (feather), Durga Prasad (heavy) (Railways), Bhim Singh (Punjab), Sanjay Kumar and Jobyson (both Steel Plant), Preetam Singh (CSIF) and Bhangara (MEG). |
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