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February 4, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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Abhinav to participate in Sportland NRW Cup Chandigarh, February 3 Bridge tournament TB Verma and Ms Sunanda Jain of North-South team and another pair of Rakesh Goyal and R.C. Sharma emerged winners in the open pairs bridge tournament organised by the Chandigarh Bridge Association, which concluded last evening at Hot Millions, Chandigarh. According to Mr M.L. Panghotra, secretary of the association, 36 pairs from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh took part in the tournament. The pair of S.S. Sidhu and Col Guriqbal were second in the North-South team. Taekwon-do meet The Taekwon-do players of Kailash Bahl DAV Centenary Public School, Sector 7, put up a splendid show in the just concluded Chandigarh State Taekwon-do Championship and secured a rich haul of medals, including three gold medals, four silver medals and seven bronze medals. Ms Madhu Bahl, Principal of the school, appreciated the achievements of the players and announced that a merit certificate would be awarded to each participant.
Kabaddi tourney The XVth Senior National Circle Kabaddi Championship for men and women will be held at Yavatmal (Maharashtra) from February 7 to 9. According to Mr J.P. Sharma, general secretary of the Amateur Circle Kabaddi Federation of India, the host state will also provide free boarding, lodging during the meet days. Sharma said as many as 17 teams had so far confirmed their participation in the meet.
Athletics meet The 21st annual athletics meet of Government College, Sector 46, Chandigarh, began here today with jumping events for boys and girls. The winners of today’s events (boys) are long jump-Ajit Kumar (BA III) 1, Suraj (BA II) 2. Triple Jump-Ajit Kumar (BA III) 1, Vikram (BA III) 2. girls: long jump-Archana (BAII)1, Shabina (BA III) 2. Tomorrow high jump and throwing events will be held at 12 noon, according to Mr Sanjit Sardar, Head, Department of Physical Education, of the college. |
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School that excels in sports Chandigarh, February 3 Mr T.R. Sethi, Chairman, Sanjay Public School, said it bagged the second position in under 19 inter school meet. Rohit, Gurpreet, Amrit Pal and Gurjot Singh represented UT schools team in the National School Games at Delhi. Mr Sethi said the school had approached the Sports Authority of India for appointing a handball coach. Mr Sethi added that our hockey team also won the CBSE National Hockey Meet at Bangalore while in North Zone under 19 meet, it won the Cluster XI meet. Harpreet Singh, Shamsher Singh and Jasbir Singh also represented UT in the National School Games. Three players of the school, Arun Rai, Gauravdeep and Saru Kanwar represented UT in the National School Games in under 16 category. It also bagged second position in the St John’s Edmund Rice Cricket meet. Five of its wrestlers Kanwar Baljit Singh, Sanjeet Singh, Dharminder, Satish and Sunil also donned national colours. Mr Sethi said seven judokas of the school were part of the Chandigarh team for the nationals. Eight soccer players of the school represented UT in the National School Games held at Madhya Pradesh. One player was part of the under 16 UT football team. The school bagged the Cluster XI North Zone under 19 and under 16 meet. It also won the under 17 and under 19 meet while bagged second position in pre-Subroto Cup. |
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Parul Goswami creates flutter Chandigarh, February 3 CLTA trainees Amanpreet Kaur among the girls and Jitin Bishnoi among the boys, however, went down fighting in their respective matches played today. In the other matches, unseeded Siributwong Kiriti of Thailand upset seventh seeded Rupesh Roy of India. Today’s results are: Girls (singles) first round:- Arutyunova Elina (UZB) bt. Kate Polunina (UKR) 6-2,6-4, Hwang I-Husan (TPE) bt. Chedda Krushmi (IND) 6-2,6-1, Zhukova Anastasia (RUS) bt. Zlotikman Efrat (ISR) 6-4,1-6, 6-0, Vitayaviroj T. (THA) bt. Bar Machal (ISR) 6-0,6-0, Ganes Kate (ISR) bt. Amanpreet Kaur (IND) 6-2,6-2, Murli Vandana (IND) bt. Baishak Nusrat S. (BAN) 6-3, 6-3, Goswami Parul (IND) bt. Devi Marutha (IND) 6-3,1-6,6-3, Hsu Wen-Hsin (TPE) bt. Dayananda Vindya (IND) 6-1,6-0, Sitdjimeleva Elonora (UZB) bt. Lodha Shraddha (IND) 6-1,3-6,6-1, Nemerovski Yana (ISR) bt. Nandkumar A (IND) 6-0,6-2, Shin Jung-Yoon (KOR) bt. Shah Nidhi (IND) 6-1,6-2, Iryana Tsymbal (UKR) bt. Daniella Cohan (ISR) 6-3,6-2, Debodt Jennfer (BEL) bt. Trimurthi Bhavani (IND) 7-5,3-6,6-1 Boys (singles) first round:- Siributwong Kiriti (THA) bt. 7-Roy Rupesh (IND) 6-4,6-4, Sharan Divij (IND) bt. Gulati Sidharth (IND) 6-2,5-7,6-4, Satta Anshuman (IND) bt. Singh Navdeep (IND) 6-3,6-1, Tolok Dimitri (UKR) bt. Abdurazakov Aziz (UZB) 6-4,6-3, Natarajan V. Sunder (IND) bt. Gamllell Moshiko (ISR) 6-2,2-6,7-6(7), Alamgir Hossain (BAN) bt. Bishnoi Jitin (IND) 6-7(2),5-7, Tsubasa Morizane (JPN) bt. Walia Varun (IND) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, Khan Eduard (UZB) bt. Gupta Sumit P. (IND) 6-2,6-4. |
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Meanwhile, Col A.B. Singh was unanimously re-elected president of the Chandigarh Bridge Association for another term of two years. Other office-bearers are: vice-presidents — JK Sama, Mr SS Sidhu, Col Guriqbal Singh; general
secretary — ML Panghotra; tournament secretary — Col Amrik Singh; joint secretary —RN Mehta; executive members — Ms Sunanda Jain, Ms Harjeet Sidhu, Wg Cdr Russel Lyall, Mr Ashok Huria, Mr SP Sharma and Mr GS Oberoi.
