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Anand fails to win title NEW DELHI, July 17 — Cricket all-rounder Ajay Jadeja has denied having any links with bookies or knowledge of match-fixing even as the CBI was planning to question former cricket captain Ravi Shastri, agency sources said here today. Match-fixing may
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 More shadow boxing likely between Greene, JohnsonTHEY call it “the thin green line”, the technology used by Channel 9 to monitor the world record attempts of Ian Thorpe and Susie O’Neill at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials held in May. Now it turns out that the military allusion is apt because it was originally devised by the Israeli military to track Syrian tanks from the Golan Heights. Swiss Open title for Corretja Doctor’s plea to save Best Anil, Gurmeet set marks
Punjab boxing calendar Ex-hockey player
Mitra dead National hockey at Jammu
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Anand fails to win title DORTMUND, July 17 (PTI) — Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand outclassed GM Robert Huebner of Germany in the 9th and final round to tie on first place while GM Vladimir Kramnik clinched the title in the Dortmund Sparkassen chess meeting here today. GM Kramnik attested his superiority in the tournament with a quick draw against compatriot, FIDE world champion, GM Alexander Khalifman. Kramnik, who finished with six points, won the title on better tie break than Anand. The King of Dortmund, as he is called, clinched his fifth tournament victory here in past six years. In a sensational game, Silicon Kid “Junior 6” defeated grandmaster Peter Leko of Hungary to finish with a respectable score of 4.5 points out of a possible 9. Leko, GM Michael Adams of England and GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia tied for 3-5 places with 5 points each to their credit. Aware that he needed a win to tie for the coveted first place, Anand came to the board looking positive against lowly placed Huebner, whose miseries continued in the last round too. Playing with the black pieces, Anand faced the quiet Catalan opening by Huebner and equalised easily when the German doctor played a new but dubious move on his 12th turn. The recapture of a pawn by a pawn left Huebner with a lasting disadvantage in structure and he had to surrender the Bishop pair advantage to wriggle out of his mess. An extremely well calculated manoeuvre by Anand in the later stages of the game netted him a pawn and the vulnerable position of whites king only added to Huebners woes. The game ended after 39 moves when Huebner called it a day. Kramnik did not have much to do as Khalifman proposed a draw after getting a clearly advantageous position in just 15 moves with white pieces. The sudden finish surprised the spectators. The computer calculates faster and much better than humans as evident in the Leko-“Junior 6” encounter today. With white pieces Leko employed the Four Knights variation and got good attacking chances after a very ordinary 8th move by the machine. The Hungarian star then committed a cardinal sin of computer play, he sacrificed an exchange for an attack. Against a human this would almost surely have won quickly as some experts pointed out, but against a computer that defends almost perfectly, it is usually a good way to lose. Leko watched his initiative dry up move by move in a position where only pure calculating power mattered. Junior kept whites passed pawns under control and played a dozen checks until it could move in for the kill. After 60 moves of street-fighting chess, Leko called it a day. Akopian played a dull draw with Adams in just 15 moves of an English opening. The pair of Knights got traded in the Maroczy bind set up arising out of an English opening when the players decided to sign peace treaty. GM Jeroen Piket of Netherlands drew with GM Evgeny Bareev of Russia in a Semi Slav defence game with white pieces. After routine theoretical manoeuvres Piket’s novelty on the 16th move did not yield him any advantage and the game ended after 21 moves. |
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Jones survives scare to win long jump SACRAMENTO (California), July 17 (AFP) — Marion Jones shook off doubts — if not all doubters — with a gutsy victory in the US Olympic trials long jump here that kept her dream of five gold medals in Sydney alive. “I was quite concerned,” admitted Jones, who fouled on her first two jumps to put herself in a do-or-die situation in the six-jump competition, in which the field was cut from 12 to eight at the halfway stage. “After I jumped the second jump and turned around and saw that red flag, for the blink of an eye I thought: ‘One more, if I don’t get into it this dream could be over.’ “Then I looked over in the stands and saw Trevor and CJ,” added Jones, whose coach Trevor Graham and husband CJ Hunter were watching attentively. “They were pumped up because they knew if I got a fair jump it would be a long one. As soon as I saw they still believed in me, no problem.” She cleared 6.75 metres on her third attempt to lie fourth at the halfway point. She briefly displaced halfway leader Dawn Burrell with 6.88 metres in the fourth round, but Burrell regained the lead with a leap of 6.96 metres. With the pressure to make the Olympic team off, Jones uncorked a leap of 7.02 metres on her fifth attempt, her first 7-metre jump in 13 months. She fouled on her sixth, running through the pit. Jones said she knew the performance wouldn’t silence all the critics who say she should improve on her long jump technique, but it was enough for her. Burrell took second with a final jump of 6.97 metres and Shana Williams was third with 6.87. The victory kept Jones on course for her goal of winning the 100 metres, 200 metres, long jump and two relay golds in Sydney. She won the 100 metres on Saturday to qualify for that event. There was no drama for Michael Johnson as he completed the first stage of his campaign to repeat his 200-400 metres double of the Atlanta Games. Johnson, who has been nursing a sore left achilles all week, still cruised to victory in the 400 metres final in 43.68, the fastest time in the world this year. Alvin Harrison was second in 44.63, and veteran Antonio Pettigrew third in 44.66. “I felt good the whole way,” Johnson said. “I got out, got a pretty good 200. Worked the curve a little, not as aggressively as I usually do. “With 100 metres to go, I felt some of the guys on my inside so I worked a little bit, but at 50 metres I felt I had control of the race and finished real relaxed.” Johnson, who takes on 100 metres world record-holder Maurice Greene in the 200 metres next weekend, again iced his heel after the race, and again said it was just a precaution. “It’s been sore throughout the rounds,” he said. “We’ve just tried to take precautions. It didn’t bother me today. Hopefully that will continue to be the case.” While Johnson cruised, women high jumpers and men pole vaulters had to claw their way onto the Olympic team in jump-offs, the first at a US trials since 1936. Karol Damon won the high jump with a leap of 1.93 metres and Erin Aldrich was second with the same height. Amy Acuff edged Tisha Waller in the jump-off for third place. Chad Harting claimed the last Olympic ticket in the pole vault when he won a three-way jump-off for third place. Lawrence Johnson easily won the final with a vault of 5.83 metres and Nick Hysong cleared 5.73 metres for second. The final was missing Jeff Hartwig, the top jumper in the world this year, who no-heighted in the preliminaries. Latasha Colander-Richardson won the women’s 400 metres final in 49.87, ahead of Jearl Miles-Clark and Michelle Collins. Resurgent veteran Regina Jacobs won the women’s 1,500 metres final in 4:01.01, ahead of Suzy Favor-Hamilton and Marla Runyon. Runyon is the first legally blind athlete to qualify for the Olympics. Stanford University’s Gabe Jennings (21) won the men’s 1,500 metres, ahead of Jason Pyrah and Michael
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No links with bookies: Jadeja NEW DELHI, July 17 (PTI) — Cricket all-rounder Ajay Jadeja has denied having any links with bookies or knowledge of match-fixing even as the CBI was planning to question former cricket captain Ravi Shastri, agency sources said here today. Jadeja was grilled by the sleuths of the Special Crime Branch last evening following reported allegation about his involvement in betting by former crime branch chief of Mumbai police Rakesh Maria. Former all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar submitted video tapes clandestinely shot by him to the agency in which Mr Maria has been shown as naming Jadeja as one of the persons involved in the betting scandal. Jadeja, who returned from the USA on Saturday denied the charges levelled against him during his two-hour-long grilling by the agency, they said. However, the agency sources maintained that the deadlock in the match-fixing case continued even after questioning Jadeja, who is the seventh cricketer summoned by the agency in connection with the scandal. Meanwhile, the CBI is awaiting deposition of four other witnesses including two former skippers, including Shastri, the agency sources said. The deposition of these players will help the agency in deciding the future course of action of whether to register a regular case or carry on with the Preliminary Enquiry (PE), registered by the agency on May 2, they said. Among the people likely to depose before the agency in the coming weeks are cricketer-turned-commentator Ravi Shastri, legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar, former cricket manager Anshuman Gaekwad and former cricketer Ajay Sharma, the agency sources said. Shastri’s deposition is awaited by the agency as he is the only person who has reportedly confirmed that Manoj Prabhakar had informed him of alleged offer of Rs 25 lakh by cricket icon Kapil Dev to underperform during a one dayer against Pakistan in Sri Lanka in 1994. Besides him, the agency says the statement of Gavaskar would also help the agency as Prabhakar has claimed that he had informed the “Little Master” too about the alleged offer, which Kapil Dev has denied. The agency said it would then refer the case to its legal cell for an appropriate decision, the sources said. The sources said the CBI would be deciding on calling Kapil Dev only after examining others. Meanwhile, in the case of allotment of TV rights, the investigations were going on and some files had been examined by the agency’s anti-corruption unit, the agency sources said. They said, however, the progress was slow as the agency had to go into the whole gamut of allotments of television rights since 1996. |
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Match-fixing may lead to life ban NEW DELHI, July 17 (PTI) — Any Indian cricketer, team official or umpire found guilty of match-fixing will face a ban for life and those betting on any match will be barred for five years under a draft Code of Conduct drawn up by the Indian cricket board.
All players and team officials also will be required to sign an agreement with the board (BCCI) pledging to abide by the Code of Conduct in respect of betting, match-fixing and general conduct. The code, to be finalised by the board’s three-member committee in Mumbai on July 24 and submitted to Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa in New Delhi on August 1, will come into force from the India-Pakistan Sahara Cup series to be played in Toronto from September 9. In respect of match-fixing, each player will be required to follow the code of conduct. |
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IWHF sets preconditions for merger NEW DELHI, July 17 — The Indian Women’s Hockey Federation (IWHF), at an emergency executive committee meeting at the National Stadium here today, “unanimously” decided to authorise its President, Mrs Vidya Stokes, to “constitute a committee to look into the details of the merger (with the Indian Hockey Federation), including the new constitution”. As per the directive of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), the merger should be before the FIH Congress in Paris on November 25, failing which the representatives of the IHF will not be allowed to participate in the Congress. At the IWHF executive meeting, it was also “unanimously” proposed that after the merger, the new hockey federation should be known as the “Indian Hockey Confederation (IHC)”, and that the first president of the joint body in the new millennium should be a woman, and that the IHC would look after the matters pertaining to the FIH and the Asian Hockey Federation only, and that both the IWHF and the IHF would continue functioning as it is. It was also proposed that status quo should be maintained regarding the district and state women’s hockey associations, “otherwise, women’s hockey will get disturbed”. The executive also suggested that equal representation should be given to both the federations in the “newly (to be) formed functional body”. Though the IWHF did not officially say so, the executive adopted a resolution to the effect that the new President of the combined body should be the IWHF president, Mrs Vidya Stokes, and that the constitution adopted by other countries like England, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, where merger has taken place recently, may be studied while finalising the new constitution. The executive is also learnt to have strongly felt that the “attitude towards the merger from the men’s hockey has not been satisfactory, as there had been no response from their side on the issue”. It was suggested that both the IWHF and the IHF general body meeting should be called together to formalise the merger in a “fair and democratic manner”. “We have given our point of view, and now we will wait for action and reaction from them (IHF)”, Mrs Vidya Stokes told The Tribune. When contacted, IHF President K.P.S. Gill said he was open to suggestions, and whatever decisions have been taken at the IWHF meeting were “OK with me”. Mr Gill said the IHF would deliberate about the modalities of the merger after receiving the IWHF letter. He said “we will decide about the merger after the Olympics”. Mrs Stokes said even after the merger, India would continue to have two votes in the FIH meetings. Out of the 18 IWHF members, 15 of them attended the meeting today. The absentees were Mrs Surinder Kaur, Umrao Singh of Punjab and Mrs Amrita Singh of Bundelkhand due to indisposition, while Kerala did not send anyone in place of their deceased member Balakrishnan. Mrs Stokes said she would constitute a small three-member committee, “comprising myself, a lawyer and a senior member as I have to think of people who can deliver the goods, and who are available for the meetings”. The IWHF secretary, Mrs Amrit Bose, who has been named as the secretary-treasurer of the Indian contingent for the Olympic Games in Sydney in September this year, reiterated that “the IHF will merge with us, and not we.” “They (the men) should take the initiative as well”, she asserted. “And now let their point of view come”, she said. |
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More shadow boxing likely between Greene, Johnson THEY call it “the thin green line”, the technology used by Channel 9 to monitor the world record attempts of Ian Thorpe and Susie O’Neill at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials held in May. Now it turns out that the military allusion is apt because it was originally devised by the Israeli military to track Syrian tanks from the Golan Heights. After three years of testing, the Kerry Packer’s Channel 9 who have brought so many innovations into cricket coverage, launched its “green line” in which as the swimmers head down the last lap the virtual line appears across the pool to tell viewers their position in relation to the present record. It is officially known as the Virtual World Record Time Line but it’s also called ORAD. That is the name of the Israeli company that developed the computer-tracking device. It offered several sporting packages, many based on soccer, which led to the strike zone Nine used in its cricket coverage last summer. The company even offered Channel 9 to develop a virtual world record swimmer which would be computer-driven on the screen. What they wound up with was this thin green line across the pool. It is apparently used in the Golan Heights to determine if Syrian tanks have crossed the border. The line needs to be deadly accurate. Any mistake could cause a war. Burns said the hardest part was setting the automatic trigger of the green line to co-ordinate with the starter and race timing. But what about Channel 7, Sydney 2000’s offical television broadcaster at the Olympics? Will they be using the line as well in their coverage? The head of Network 7 Sport, said: they had been talking with the same people about using this technology for the last nine months. “But you will just have to wait and see in September.” We are waiting. Hoopla and hype of American athletics It seems Marion Jones’s aggressive television advertisements screened in the USA during the lead-up to the US Olympic track and field trials have struck a chord in the land of hoopla and hoops. Jones, Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene are getting the full treatment, with their eight-day selection event — which has begun in steaming Sacramento, California — being heralded as the best-attended US Olympic trial in history. The 3M’s, as they’re called, arrived at the California State University to red-carpet treatment, in the form of a new $ (US) 1.1 million ($1.9m) Mondo track, the same type they’ll run on at the Olympic stadium in Sydney. It’s often said it’s harder to make the US Olympic athletics team than win an Olympic gold medal. Here’s why. It’s a cutthroat system. No back-door deals, no pre-selection, no discretion or intervention. finish in the top three in the final and you’re in. But what if you miss the start, your blocks slip, you foul, no height, get sick, fall over, pull a hamstring? Sorry. You’re out. The reason the Americans can afford to be so brutal is because they have college kids who can run sub-10.10s for 100m and leap more than eight metres in the long jump. They do it while warming up for the next gridiron match. It’s led to a so-what attitude among the American public, which traditionally tunes into track and field only once every four years at the Olympics, and then drops the sport like a rotten egg after the closing ceremony. But this year, thanks in part to Jones’s sassy TV ads, the USA is giving its track stars more love. And more attention, too, thanks to a fight between Johnson and Greene which will require intervention from Don King if it gets any bigger. Now Greene, 25, the world record holder in the 100m, is saying: “If people call Michael Johnson Superman, well I am Kryptonite.” It’s a reference to the green stuff which makes superman an ordinary human being. Their 200m final is the last event on the last day next Sunday, so there is going to be a whole lot more shadow boxing before these two egos are forced to strip down to their Lycra and show what they are really made of. Home eviction notice from one
Olympian to another As she read the letter, disbelief engulfed Nova Peris-Kneebone, the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal who is now set to become an Olympian in a second sport, athletics. The letter was an eviction notice telling her she had to vacate the house she called home within 24 hours. The problem was that the Atlanta Olympic hockey gold medallist was due to run in the most important race of her life the following day to qualify for the World Athletics Championships. There was no way she could move house and run. What made the letter even more alarming is that the house owner was Catherine Freeman Enterprises, a company jointly owned and controlled by her fellow competitor, Cathy Freeman, and her manager/ former lover, Nick Bideau who is now locked in a court battle with Cathy over money. Nova, who was the first Australian to carry the Sydney Gamers Flame when it arrived in Australia, rang Freeman, who was just as shocked to hear of the eviction notice. Freeman, whose relationship with Bideau had ended a few months earlier, assured Peris-Kneebone she knew nothing about it, apologised profusely and advised her to stay put. Bideau later said he too knew nothing about the notice and advised it to speak to accountant Peter Jess, who is suing Cathy together with Bideau. The incident provided the legal process which has now been put off until after the Olympics, an interesting insight into the running of Cathy’s business deals. Jess later confirmed he had sent the letter. “It was sent because we want to use the property for other purposes. That’s a commercial process.” Recently the Olympic city celebrated the 200th anniversary of the death in 1800 of Thomas Townshend, after whom Sydney was named. Many years before becoming Lord Sydney and selecting Captain Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of New South Wales, townshend was a member of British Parliament. In fact, Townshend became a very significant political figure during the 1780s, playing a key role in the emergence of the USA and the beginnings of Australia and Canada. In recognition of his pivotal role in helping formalise the peace treaty with America following the Revolution, Townshend was made Baron Sydney in 1783. The name Sydney derives from Normandy and in old English meant “dweller of the wide well-watered land” — not a bad description of the city today. — PMG |
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Swiss Open title for Corretja GSTAAD, (Switzerland), July 17 (AFP) — Alex Corretja tuned up for this weekend’s Davis Cup semifinal on clay against the USA, winning his second title today at the $600,000 Swiss Open. The Spanish No 1 overwhelmed Argentine Mariano Puerta 6-1, 6-3 in a match reduced to best-of-three sets after a week of rain threw the alpine tournament well behind schedule, pushing the title contest back a day. Corretja, who claimed his second trophy of the year after winning the Masters Series event in California in March, was playing his third match in two days as the sun stayed out for the first time in more than a week. Yesterday, the 26-year-old had to win a quarterfinal over Chile’s Marcelo Rios and then defeated Gaston Gaudio of Argentina in the evening to reach the rare Monday finale. “Fortunately I stayed alive,” the happy winner said. “I felt great, Mariano also had a great week. I played perfect tennis and served great. “I’ve now won it twice here, thank you Gstaad,” Corretja said before being presented with the trophy by Roy Emerson, who runs summer clinics here. The Australian’s record of 12 Grand Slam singles titles was broken last weekend at Wimbledon by Sampras. Corretja now faces a dash down south to reach the northern town of Santander, venue for the Davis clash with the USA, which will be missing big names Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi through injury. Corretja banked a prize cheque of $ 81,000, while Puerta, who had beaten the Spaniard in their only previous meeting at Palermo in 1998, won $ 47,500. The Spaniard made it two titles on the 1,000m-high clay of Gstaad. Two years ago, he lifted the trophy to deny Boris Becker a chance at a clay title, something the now-retired German never won. Corretja’s win makes it five titles in a row here for Spaniards and nine out of the last 11 trophies. The top seed wasted no time on a sunny morning in the Alps, racing to a 5-0 lead with two breaks of Puerta (20). |
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Doctor’s plea to save Best LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) — George Best’s doctor has pleaded with bar staff across Britain not to serve the former soccer star in a bid to beat his alcohol addiction.
“Everybody knows him, everybody loves him and everybody wants to help him. Serving him drink isn’t doing that,’’ Professor Roger Williams told reporters after weekend media reports that the ex-Manchester United player went on another drinking binge. “It doesn’t help when people serve him when he gets into that state. Staff could do their bit to help the doctors and everybody else,’’ he said. Best, who has been told that another drink could kill him, admitted to a one-night relapse before flying off to Spain on holiday with his wife Alex. Williams, who said Best was taking a break before returning for treatment, said: “I have been pleased with his progress. This is a setback.’’ |
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Ahmed Alam to lead Pak in Olympics ISLAMABAD, July 17 (AFP) — Custodian Ahmed Alam will lead a strong Pakistan hockey squad in the Sydney Olympics, Pakistan hockey officials have announced. “We have a very balanced team and will do our best to bring the Olympic glory back to Pakistan,” team manager Islahuddin Siddiqui said yesterday. Pakistan’s 17-member squad will be reduced to 16 after a series of matches in Australia and New Zealand before the summer games in September. “We have selected the best available squad after trials which were open and team is selected on merit,” Pakistan Hockey Federation president Lt-General Abdul Aziz Khan told reporters. Former captain Shahbaz Ahmed did not appear at the trials, ending speculation of a comeback. Pakistan had to qualify for the Olympics in Osaka, Japan, last March. The three-time Olympic champions lost their Asian title to India in 1998. Pakistan now pose threat to European nations as they have a penalty corner expert in Sohail
Abbas, who scored 62 record goals last year. Pakistan, who last won the Olympic title in 1984 at Los Angeles, will be in pool “A” of the Sydney Olympics along with defending champions the Netherlands, as well as Germany, Canada, Malaysia and Britain. |
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Sunny feared he won’t be recognised NEW DELHI, July 17 (PTI) — The ‘Little Master’ Sunil Gavaskar was dismissed first ball in the Jaipur Test during the 1987 series against arch-rivals Pakistan - and had a rare off-field problem. The then President of Pakistan Zia-ul-Haq had flown into Jaipur on a goodwill mission and had invited both the teams for dinner. The hall at the Rambagh Palace hotel was glittering with beautiful women, VIPs and politicians. Gavaskar, dismissed on first ball, was in a mischievous mood. He told his team-mate Arun Lal : “You stay with me. I am not carrying the invitation card. The securitymen could hardly see me on TV and they will not let me enter”. But he was warmly escorted in by the securitymen. And then there is that funny story about Zaheer Abbas who really believed that someone had cast an evil spell on him during Pakistan’s tour of India in 1979. The stylish Abbas, who had single-handedly murdered the Indian bowling attack in Pakistan, was a non-entity on similar type of wickets in India. Unstable and vulnerable, he kept failing with the bat and eventually had to be dropped for the sixth Test. His mind became so clouded that he began to believe someone had cast an evil spell on him. He consulted astrologers and palmists but his luck did not turn. At the fag end of the tour he received a letter which said “I have lifted the evil spirit and you will once again be among the runs”. His team-mates said Zaheer, of all persons, did believe it. These are some of the anecdotes related to Indian and Pakistani cricketers in a new book entitled “India-Pakistan Ashes”, giving details of all the Tests played between the arch-rivals since 1952. Authored by senior sports scribe K.R. Wadhwaney, the book, full of incidents, anecdotes and controversies portrays all the trials and tribulations of the Test matches (1952-1999) between the two neighbours. With cricket a passion in both India and Pakistan, Test matches between the arch-rivals evoke tension and excitement, putting enormous pressure on the players and the umpires. The book dwells on several controversies that have cropped up in Indo-Pak matches, including the bizarre run out of batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar in Calcutta, the biased umpiring in Pakistan, sacking of captains and heated exchanges between players. Sledging has become quite common in cricket these days though the styles have varied. But the youngsters have always been the
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Anil, Gurmeet set marks BANGALORE, July 17 (PTI) — Services’ Anil Kumar, U.P.’s Ishiaque Ahmed and Gurmeet Kaur of
LIC reigned supreme as four national records were set in the Amateur Athletic Federation of India’s third national athletics circuit meet here today. Anil Kumar, who dazzled with a record-breaking performance in the 100 metres in the second meet at the same Kanteerava Stadium on July 5, won the 200 metres, timing 20.73 seconds. The athlete from Kerala obliterated the mark set last year at Lucknow by Ajay Raj Singh (21.04). I would have made it under 20.5 had there been competition here... “I was all alone in front”, a beaming Anil Kumar said. Ahmed, a 23-year-old police Inspector, set the record in hammer throw, delivering a 70.13 metres effort, upstaging the 1997 mark at New Delhi of Pramod Kumar (67.26 metres). Gurmeet Kaur hurled the javelin to a distance of 58.64 metres, erasing the record that stood in her own name set at Kiev recently (57.96). The fourth national record came in the men’s 4x400 metres relay when the quartet (only two teams participated and the event was only held for competition) of Rajeev Balakrishnan, Anand Menenzes, Anil Kumar and Thirugnanadurai clocked 40.02 seconds, obliterating the mark of the Indian team set at Islamabad in the 1989
SAF Games (40.14 seconds). The absence of Beenamol, Anju Markose and Bahadur Prasad, among others, had taken some sheen off today’s events. Karnataka’s Rajiv Balakrishnan came up tops in the men’s 100 metres, timing 10.46
seconds, with Thirugnanadurai of Tamil Nadu behind him by just one-hundredth of a second. Anil Kumar did not take part in this event. Haryana’s Shakti Singh, who set a new Asian mark in shotput in the July 5 meet here with an effort of 20.60 metres, was below his best, turning in 20.31 m today. Women’s short sprint was won by Railways’ Rachita Mistry, who clocked 11.53 seconds. She made it a three-in-a-row having won in the first two circuit meets held at Nagercoil and here. The first two meets had also thrown up a spate of records. Her compatriot Pramila Ganapathy also came out with a hat-trick in long jump with a 6.54-metre effort, after emerging victorious in the first two meets. Neelam J. Singh triumphed in the discuss throw (61.30 m) reinforcing her top position in the event in the country. |
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boxing calendar CHANDIGARH, July 17 — The Punjab Amateur Boxing Association has drawn up the calendar for the coming year, according to Mr G.S. Sarao, secretary of the association. The inaugural Junior Boxing Championships of Northern India will be held at Hoshiarpur from July 27 to 29. Competitions will also be held for women. The Punjab State Junior Boxing Championships will be held in September at Sangrur and subsequently the selected junior team of Punjab will take part in the National Junior Boxing Championships to be held at Bhiwani. Before participation in the National Games 2000, two coaching camps will be organised at Patiala for senior boxers. In December, the association will conduct the Punjab Subjunior Boxing Championships at Khanna. The selected team of boxers will take part in the North Zone Inter-State Subjunior Boxing Championships being organised by the Chandigarh Boxing Association in Junuary 2001. Later, the Punjab team will take part in the National Subjunior Boxing Championship, scheduled to be held at Chennai in February 2001. The Punjab State Senior Boxing Championships will be conducted in February next. It will be followed by the Senior National Boxing Championships scheduled to be held at Mumbai. The Punjab senior team will also take part in the senior North Zone Boxing Championship in March, 2001, in Haryana. |
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Ex-hockey player Mitra dead CALCUTTA, July 17 (PTI) — Noted hockey player of yesteryears, Arun Kumar Mitra, who received Olympics call-up twice, died at a private city hospital tonight following old-age complications, family sources said.
One of the greatest right outs India has ever produced, Mitra (85) left behind his wife, a son and a daughter. Mitra was selected to represent India in the 1940 Olympics along with hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, but the games were cancelled due to the World War II. Later, he was also selected for the London Olympics in 1948, but failed to make it following the demise of a close relative. Fleetfooted and a powerful hitter of the ball, Mitra represented Bengal in national championships for a number of years. A hockey ‘blue’ of Calcutta University, he also turned out for the Greer Sporting Club for more than a decade. |
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National hockey
at Jammu JAMMU, July 17 — Indian Hockey Federation has decided to organise 60th National Hockey Championship from October 18 to November 6 at K.K. Hakhu astroturf stadium here. This was stated by General Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Hockey Association, Mr Jagjit Singh, at a press conference held here yesterday.
Mr Jagjit Singh informed that BSF (Jalandhar) team will arrive here for playing pre-tournament matches with Jammu and Kashmir team. He said that hosting the championship will be cost about Rs 40 lakhs which will arranged from the government and different private organisations. |
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