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India go down to South Korea BERLIN, Aug 30 — Indian juniors fought valiantly before going down to formidable South Korea 10-9 in sudden death in an evenly contested final of the Eight-Nation Hockey Tournament at Poznan, Poland. New shoes helped Johnson SEVILLE, Aug 30 — Three years’ development went into the shoes worn by Michael Johnson when he set his world 400 metres record at the World Championships last Friday. Johnson wore golden shoes during his 1996 Atlanta Olympics 200-400 double. |
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 MILAN : Inter's soccer star Ronaldo of Brazil dribbles past Verona Natale Gonnella, on the ground, during their Italian major league match at the San Siro stadium, Milan, Italy, on Sunday. Inter won 3-0. — AP/PTI |
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Engqvist’s success to inspire
millions
Change in tactics paid off Ramprakash
out of England squad
US swimmers assert supremacy Team
title for GMC Patiala |
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India go down to South Korea BERLIN, Aug 30 (PTI) — Indian juniors fought valiantly before going down to formidable South Korea 10-9 in sudden death in an evenly contested final of the Eight-Nation Hockey Tournament at Poznan, Poland. The Indians went up 2-0 ahead early in the first period but could not hold on to the 3-2 half-time lead as the Koreans tied score 4-4 at full time last evening. With 15 minutes of extra time producing no result, tie-breaker was applied. India’s Gursewak Singh and Korean Jong Bok Cha failed to convert as the two teams remained locked 8-8 (4-4 in tiebreak) after a set of five penalty strokes. In the sudden-death, Jong Koo Kim put Korea in the lead (9-8) but Arjun Halappa levelled scores again. The Indian challenge in the nerve-wracking final ended when Bimal Lakra’s attempt hit the post after Jong Bok Cha had put the Koreans 10-9 ahead. Skipper Hong Kwang Jiam scored three goals to catch up with Jung Sion Lee (two goals) as the top scorer of the tournament as South Korea remained the only unbeaten team. India dominated the proceedings in the first half establishing a 2-0 lead by the 17th minute through a Gursewak Singh field goal and a penalty corner conversion by Len Aiyappa. But the Koreans struck back, levelling the score through Hong’s field goal and Ho Keun Yoo’s penalty corner. Prabhjot Singh put the Indians ahead again (3-2) just before the interval only to see Hong chip in with the equaliser in the 40th minute. Bikramjit Singh struck India’s fourth goal midway through the second half via a penalty corner but Korea quickly restored parity with Jung Sion Lee’s field goal in the high-scoring contest between the two Asian rivals. After extra time failed to produce any result, India’s Prabhjot Singh, Len Aiyappa, Bimal Lakra and Arjun Halappa converted the strokes in the penalty shoot-out while Hong, Jung Sion Lee, Jong Koo Kim and Sion Jin Jung found the target for the Koreans. With pressure mounting on both the goalkeepers in the sudden death, India’s Bimal Lakra brought the final to an end after he missed the target to give the Koreans the trophy. Indian coach C.R. Kumar said he was disappointed at India losing the final after playing a “very good match”. “Our boys put up a very good display in their first international tournament,” Kumar said at the end of the 18-day European tour. The Indian under-21 team had earlier been to Netherlands to play two friendly matches. Pre-tournament favourites Germany scored a narrow 3-2 victory over Poland to take the third place while Belgium defeated Scotland 5-3 in the tie-breaker to take the fifth position. England thrashed Egypt
8-0 to take the seventh spot in the eight-nation
tournament. |
Engqvist’s success to inspire millions SEVILLE (Spain), Aug 30 (AFP) — The fact that Gail Devers won the women’s 100m hurdles world championships will fade from the memory soon enough but the bronze medal for Ludmila Engqvist, Sweden’s Russian-born Olympic and dual world 100m hurdles champion, will become part of athletics folklore. The 35-year-old’s achievement in even making it to the IAAF’s showpiece event after undergoing a mastectomy in April and being in the middle of chemotherapy treatment surpasses even Lance Armstrong, who two years after battling against testicular cancer won this year’s Tour de France. Her husband Johan, who is also her coach, summed up how he felt after she had taken the bronze medal, breaking the Swedish record. “I am delighted, extremely relieved and very happy for her,” he said. “I have gone past the point of being amazed ... that happened a few months ago. “What her message has always been is don’t ever give up to those people who like her are seriously ill,” he added. However, his wife, who said she had achieved something she would never have dreamed of back in April, put into perspective how far down the road she was in her battle. “The future is not looking that good for me, I run my last race this season on Tuesday and I restart chemotherapy on Thursday,” she said. However, the way she has reacted to the treatment has stunned cancer specialists such as Professor Arne Ljungqvist, who is head of the IAAF Medical Commission. “This is remarkable stuff. I helped Ludmila find the doctor (George Engel) but both he and I thought 2000 perhaps for a return. But here she is back three months later,” the Swede said. “She has forced
myself and Doctor Engel to totally re-evaluate cancer and
how people react to the treatment while giving hope to
millions of cancer sufferers who are in desperate need of
it. |
Michael Johnson, Greene make history at Seville SEVILLE, Spain, Aug 30 (DPA) — Michael Johnson became the most decorated gold medallist in athletics world championship history with nine titles nailing the last by anchoring the USA to a convincing gold in the 4x400 metres relay. Earlier yesterday, teammate Maurice Greene did the same in the 4x100m sprint relay to complete a gold medal hat-trick in Seville. Greene, who also has a 100m and relay double from 1997, was the first man to win a 100 and 200m sprint double at the worlds. The two stars raised the final U.S. Gold medal tally to 11, four more than 1997 and just two shy of the 13 golds medals they picked up at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The USA also had three silver and bronze each. Meanwhile, Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer completed an 800m hattrick with a close win over South Africa’s Hezekiel Sepeng in another of the nine finals on the concluding day of the nine-day championships in Andalusia. Olympic champion Svetlana Masterkova added the 1,500m world title to her collection and there was another gold for the Russians from the 4x400m women’s relay. Inga Babakova won the women’s high jump for Ukraine and Finland’s Aki Parviainen stole the men’s javelin gold. However, Johnson and Greene will be remembered as the top performers in Seville, where King Juan Carlos was the most prominent spectator among the 50,000 on hand on the final day. Johnson, 31, finally got the 400m world record on Thursday with 43.18 seconds to tie Carl Lewis on a total of eight gold medals. The ninth was then a mere formality as together with Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew and Angelo Taylorm, he stormed to victory in 2 minutes 56.45 seconds. Johnson now has the 1993 and 1995 200m titles, four straight 400 metres golds medals in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999, plus 4x400 relay titles from 1993, 1995 and 1999. He achieved the first 200 and 400m worlds double gold 1995 in Gothenburg and did the same at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “It is a testament to what I want to do in my career. I wanted to come to all world championships in the best shape and win,” said Johnson, who also owns the 200m world record of 19.32 and has already announced he will attempt another 200-400 double at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Poland got the silver in the 4x400 with 2:58.59 and Jamaica took the bronze with 2:59.34 minutes. In the sprint relay, Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis and Greene clocked 37.59 to erase the shame of baton-drops in the heats of the 1995 and 1997 events. Greene’s three gold medals draw him level with Carl Lewis (1983, 1987) and Marita Koch (1983), who also won three golds at one event. “I am very, very, very, very tired,” said Greene. “My body has done all it could and I don’t know if I could have done another race.” “I always believed I could do well, but it is up to you (the media) to decide who is the man of the championships.” Britain got the silver in 37.73 and Nigeria took the bronze in 37.91. Kipketer completed his return from a bout of malaria last year by edging out Sepeng by a mere two hundredths of a second when he won in 1:43.30. Sepeng had 1:43.32 and Djabir Said-Guerni got Algeria’s first medal of the championships, a bronze with 1:44.18. “It was not easy, there was some pushing in the first 300 metres. I always knew I would catch Sepeng. The only problem was that time was running out and I didn’t know if I would make it before the finish line,” conceded Kipketer, who leaped across the line. In the women’s relays the Russian quartet of Tatayana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova and Natalya Nazarova prevailed for the gold in 3:21.98, leaving only the minor medals for the USA and defending champs Germany with 3:22.09 and 3:22.43 respectively. The USA was even unluckier in the sprint relay and missed the podium for the first time because of a poor first baton exchange between Cheryl Taplin and Nanceen Perry. Together with 200m champ Inger Miller and 100m hurdles gold medallist Gail Devers they had to settle for fourth place in 42.30 seconds. Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson and Debbie Ferguson won the gold for the Bahamas in 41.92 seconds ahead of France and Jamaica, who clocked 42.06 and 42.15 respectively. The 800 and 1,500m Atlanta champ Masterkova returned to the top of the 1,500m podium in style when she ran away from Regin Jacobs on the home stretch and had a huge smile on her face when she clinched victory in 3:59.53. The American Jacobs had to settle for her second straight silver in 4:00.35 and the bronze went to Ethiopia’s Kutre Dulecha. The women’s high jump was an Eastern European showdown. Ukraine’s Inga Bobakova improved from her 1991 worlds and 1996 Olympic bronze medals by winning the gold with 1.99m, on a countback against the Russian duo of Yelena Yelesina and Svetlana Lapina. Parvainen continued the proud Finnish javelin tradition with a 89.52m throw in his penultimate attempt, which left only the silver for the favoured greek Kostas Gatsioudis (89.18). World record holder and two-times world and Olympic champion Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic got the bronze with 87.67m. Earlier, Song-Ok Jong of North Korea outran her only rival with two kilometres left to claim a stunning women’s marathon gold medal for North Korea in 2:26:59 hours. Japan’s Ari Ichihashi took the silver with 2:27.02 and Lidia Simon of Romania got the bronze with 2:27:40 in a race where Olympic champion Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia seemed on course to the gold medal by snatching the lead at 30km, but eventually faded to fourth. The closing ceremony
followed later in the night. The top athletes will gather
again next year at the Olympics and then for the next
world championships 2001 in Edmonton, Canada. |
Change in tactics paid off FINALLY, someone woke up the big guns. Over the past couple of week I have been waiting for India to show its true colours. Yesterday they didn’t let anyone down. Led by their inspiration, Sachin Tendulkar, India produced the type of game we have come to expect. Sachin was magnificent. Obviously, still troubled by that back complaint, the Indian captain led by example to set the scene for an excellent batting display. The Indian side have done some soul searching over the past few days and looked a far better side for it. The change in tactics brought instant success, moving Saurav Ganguly down to number four was a masterstroke. He had been struggling at the top of the order and relished his role coming in after a brilliant opening stand between Tendulkar and Ramesh. Over the years that I have been playing and watching cricket I can’t recall a player who times the ball as sweetly or punishes the spinners with such disdain. It’s majestic the way he advances to hit the ball down the ground invariably high over ropes for six. The player now for the Indians to improve on is Dravid. He is a class act and is going through a tough period. I’m sure he will be OK. One area of concern is Sachin Tendulkar’s back. On several occasions yesterday, after completing his shot, he appeared to wince in pain. I think I can safely speak on behalf of a cricketing world. How hopeful we are that there are no long-term problems and that Sachin can maintain his cricket playing for many years to come. The Sri Lankans played their role well in this encounter. Set the daunting task of scoring the minimum of 271 off 42 overs, after rain further intensified their run chase, the Lankans did a sterling job to qualify against Australia. It was a day for captains to lead the charge and Sanath Jayasuriya was superb in his efforts to get Sri Lanka off to the required start so as to give them every chance to haul in India’s imposing 296 for 4. How dangerous is Jayasuriya if given any room outside his off stump? One shot sticks out when Srinath, bowling around the wicket, dropped a little short and Sanath flayed the delivery high and hard over backward point for six — a truly amazing shot among many. When he was finally out for 70, Sri Lanka were well on their way to the target required. The final is now between the host nation who have some improvement and the rampant Australians who are on the threshold of a world record for the most successive one day games without a loss, Sri Lanka will have to be on song in a couple of areas. Chaminda Vaas has been far too expensive in his opening overs. I’m sure Dave Wharmore, the Sri Lankan coach, has something up his sleeve as far as tactics are concerned. He will have noticed how his spinners were able to tie down the Australian middle order in their previous encounter and maybe he, with Sanath Jayasuriya, will spring a surprise and open the bowling with Murali or even the captain himself. It would be a bold move, but given the explosive starts that Gilchrist and Waugh have given the Aussies during this tournament, it may be the move that produces an upset. The Australians are
looking absolute specials to win. The fast bowling has
been the key with Jason Gillespie leading the way and
Glenn McGrath always seems to produces the goods in the
big games. Given good conditions, I expect the
Australians to bat first if they win the toss and defend
their total. This may be a good tactic for the Lankans to
follow. All in all, it should be a cracking match. —
PMG |
Indian cricketers need rest NEW DELHI, Aug 30 — Cricket is no longer controlled and managed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) or its affiliated national cricket bodies. It is now firmly in the clutches and claws of the sponsors who decide as to which series would be held where, when and how. This is because money talks. The sponsors pay and all other international and national bodies hum the tune of sponsors. Self-respect and dignity are the virtues of days gone by. This is a sad story of cricket which was once a noble game. Following the Kargil conflict, the Sahara tournament between India and Pakistan has been discontinued. Right or wrong, this is the decision of the government, the Indian board and players who feel that, after the loss of innocent lives on either side of the border, there is no point in maintaining sporting contacts. All-out efforts were made by affected bodies but India, for once, stood firm refusing to yield even under pressure. That was great. The International Management Group (IMG) was one of the major units involved with the Sahara tournament. Since the Sahara tournament cannot be held, it has initiated a “festival” competition among three teams in Toronto from September 11 to 19. India will play three matches against West Indies on September 11, 12 and 14, while West Indies will play Pakistan on September 16, 18 and 19. What purpose will be served by playing in this kind of festival, which has no rating whatsoever in the international world of cricket. Why tire and hurt players who are already overworked? Basically, the Indian board should have declined to play in the festival. But having agreed to, India should send a ‘B’ team instead of leading players who need rest and relaxation. There is no point in tiring Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Ajay Jadeja and host of others. Most of the Indian stars need rest to recoup. Any compromise in this aspect will be suicidal, as has been witnessed in the recent series in Sri Lanka. Most of the Indian stars are not physically 100 per cent fit. If Tendulkar is still nursing a back problem, others are carrying injuries. But because of lure of money, the players seem to hide them and doctors are unable to detect them. Indian cricket is not
marching on, but is unfortunately sliding backwards. This
is a sad story. |
Woods ekes out 1-stroke win AKRON, Ohio, Aug 30 (Reuters) — Another tournament, another close finish, another Tiger Woods victory. World number one Woods demonstrated again that even when he is not at his best he is very hard to beat as he eked out a one-stroke victory at the $ 5 million NEC Invitational yesterday. He started the final round five strokes clear of the field, and seven clear of fellow American Phil Mickelson, who was the only one to make a charge in the new world championships event. Mickelson, despite bogeying the last, shot a five-under-par 65, the day’s best round by three strokes in a testing breeze at Firestone Country Club. But Woods, even with three bogeys in the last five holes, was able to hang on with a one-over 71 for his sixth worldwide victory of the year. “I made my share of mistakes,” said Woods, who collected $ 1 million for his fifth win in his past eight starts. In that time he has won the TPC of Europe in Germany, as well as Memorial, Western Open, PGA Championship and NEC Invitational in the USA. Woods is the youngest player to win five times in a year on the PGA Tour since Jack Nicklaus won the 1963 Sahara Invitational at the exact same age, 23 years, eight months and 30 days. And Woods has won the past nine times that he has led into the final round of a PGA Tour event. He finished at 10-under 270, with Mickelson on 271 and Australian Craig Parry (69) and Zimbabwean Nick Price (71) equal third on 275. Spanish teenager Sergio Garcia ran up a quadruple bogey at the par-five 16th, where he plunked two balls into the pond in front of the green. He shot 71 and tied for seventh on 278. Woods was grateful that he had built such a huge lead during Saturday’s 62. “I am not against
playing with a big lead. It means if I make a couple of
mistakes I still have a cushion to fall back on,” he
said. |
Jeev slumps to 34th position NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (PTI) — Top Indian pro Jeev Milkha Singh slipped four places to languish at the 34th position going into the final round of the Scottish Golf Championship at Gleneagles, Scotland. On a windy day, the 27-year-old pro, who fired level-par rounds of 72 each on the first two days, failed to maintain the tempo, returning a poor four-over 76 in the third round at the Monarch’s Course yesterday. Jeev, the lone Indian on the highly-competitive European PGA tour, was lying 34th with four others including Englishman Stuart Cage (70+75+75) and Neil Roderick (73+72+75) of Wales with an aggregate of four-over 220. The Chandigarh-based player began steadily with five successive pars, but then lost his way with three bogies in a row starting from the sixth hole under difficult conditions on the 7,053-yard course. Birdies on the 9th and
10th pulled him back to one-over, but Jeev dropped
further strokes on the 12th and 16th holes. |
New shoes helped Johnson SEVILLE, Aug 30 (Reuters) — Three years’ development went into the shoes worn by Michael Johnson when he set his world 400 metres record at the World Championships last Friday. Johnson wore golden shoes during his 1996 Atlanta Olympics 200-400 double. His footwear in Seville carried a more sober black and gold design. “The process started again after the Olympics and Michael has been working regularly with us,” Nike international product manager Simon Taylor said. “Mr Taylor said that Nike had made the spike plate in Johnson’s shoes more rigid, a modification which helps keep the four times world 400 gold medallist on his toes more easily. They had also reduced the number of spikes from six to five and made the upper part of the shoe seamless, using a lightweight fabric common in parachutes. “He wants it to fit like a glove. At 116 grames it is the lightest shoe we have ever made,” Mr Taylor added.
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Ramprakash out of England squad LONDON, Aug 30 (AFP) — Former skipper Alec Stewart today retained his place in England’s Test squad for the winter tour to South Africa and Zimbabwe — but Middlesex captain Mark Ramprakash lost out, despite finishing top of the averages in last winter’s Ashes tour to Australia. Stewart was not chosen, however, in the 15-man party for the one-day series, which begins in South Africa and concludes in Zimbabwe. There is no Test squad place for Warwickshire fast bowler Ed Giddins, who made his debut in the final Test at The Oval. Ramprakash’s county colleague Phil Tufnell is retained in a 17-strong squad, which includes four uncapped players — Sussex captain Chris Adams, Northamptonshire’s Graeme Swann, Yorkshire allrounder Gavin Hamilton and his team-mate Michael Vaughan, the opening batsman and off spinner who captained England A to South Africa last winter. The side has a fair sprinkling of youth with seven players 25 or under. In addition, Darren Gough is back in the line-up after missing the entire New Zealand series through injury. Surrey batsman-wicket-keeper Stewart had been one of the senior players whose Test place was under pressure following England’s dismal summer in which they crashed out of the World Cup at the earliest stage and then lost the Test series against New Zealand to plunge to the foot of the world league table. Stewart’s Surrey’s team-mate Graham Thorpe, who asked not to be considered for the Test tour but was available for the one-day squad, will not be required by England this winter. His name is a notable absentee from the one-day side, which includes Worcestershire’s Indian-born Vikram Solanki. The Test squad will leave for South Africa on October 26 for the five-Test series, while the triangular one-day series against South Africa and Zimbabwe starts on January 23 in South Africa, then moves on to Zimbabwe for four one-day internationals against the host country. The England A tour to Bangladesh and New Zealand will be announced on September 6 and will contain a number of reserve players for the senior tour. Test squad: N. Hussain (capt), CJ Adams, MA Atherton, ma Butcher, AR Caddick, A. Flintoff, D. Gough, GM Hamilton, DW Headley, DL Maddy, AD Mullally, CMW Read (wk), AJ Stewart (wk), GP Swann, AJ Tudor, PCR Tufnell, MP Vaughan. One-day squad: N.
Hussain (capt), CJ Adams, MW Alleyne, AR Caddick, MA
Ealham, A. Flintoff, AF Giles, D. Gough, GM Hamilton, GA
Hick, NV Knight, DL Maddy, AD Mullally , CMW Read (wk),
VS Solanki. |
US swimmers assert supremacy SYDNEY, Aug 30 (AFP) — The USA clung onto their world swimming supremacy after a furious last race victory over Australia to become the champion team of the Pan Pacific championship here yesterday. The Americans had trailed the resurgent Australians for most of the meet, taking second place to the gold-medal winning exploits of Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Grant Hackett and Susie O’Neill — but it all came down to the last race, the men’s 100 metres medley relay. Boosted by a near world record leadoff by multiple backstroke record holder Lenny Krayzelburg, the Americans had just enough to fend off a frenetic finish from Klim in the freestyle leg with Neil Walker touching the wall 17-100ths of a second ahead. But subsequently the Australians were disqualified when Klim leapt from the blocks to swim the final freestyle leg before Geoff Huegill had completed his butterfly leg. The US won the relay and the championship in 3:36.37. Both nations won 13 gold medals, but the Americans won a total of 35 medals to Australia’s 32 and shaded their Olympic adversary on the team points score, 391 to 372. Asked for the distance between his team and the Australians, UA men’s coach Mark Schubert said: “about two-tenths of a second.” Australian head coach Don Talbot was more guarded, saying: “I still won’t totally claim second, but I’d like to think that we’re in the two, three or four bracket.” The US won three of
yesterday’s four finals — Jenny Thompson took
out the women’s 50m freestyle and led her team to
victory in the women’s medley relay — with the
other gold going to Australian world champion Grant
Hackett. |
Team title for GMC Patiala LUDHIANA, Aug 30 — Rakhi of Chandigarh Medical College and Varun Vaishisht of Dasmesh Institute of Research and Dental Studies (DIRDS), emerged champions among women and men, respectively, in the third North Zone Inter-Medical College Table Tennis Tournament which concluded at the DMC Hospital here today. In the final, Rakhi quelled a strong resistance from her rival Satinder of Government Medical College, Patiala, before emerging winner 21-18, 23-21. In the men’s section, Varun Vashisht faced little challenge from Suresh of Government Medical College, Patiala whom he outnumbered 21-11, 21-14. Government Medical College, Patiala, prevailed over Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana ‘A’ 3-2 to lift the team title in the men’s section while in the women’s section, Chandigarh Medical College outplayed hosts Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, 3-1 to win the team championship. Mr Prem Nath Gupta, secretary, DCM and Hospital, gave away prizes while Dr S C Ahuja, Principal, DMC, presided over the function. Results: Men’s singles (semifinals): Suresh (GMC, Ptl) b Vikas Mittal (DMC Ldh) 21-14, 21-15; Varun Vashisht (DIRDS. Fdr) b Inderpreet Singh (DMC Ldh) 21-15, 21-14. Final: Varun Vashisht (DIRDS, Fdr) b Suresh (GMC. Ptl) 21-11. 21-14. Men’s doubles (semifinals): Dinesh and Suresh (GMC Ptl) b Anurag and Vikas (DMC Ldh) 21-18, 21-19, Neeraj and Varun (DIRDS. FDR) b Amit and Rajan (GMC Ptl) 21-17, 21-15. Final: Neeraj and Varun DIRDS Fdr) b Dinesh and Suresh (GMC Ptl) 21-13, 21-16. Women’s singles (Semifinals): Satinder (GMC Ptl) b Shaila (Ldh) 21-15, 22-20. Rakhi (Chd) b Mandeep (DMC Ldh) 21-18, 21-19. Final: Rakhi (Chd) b Satinder (GMC Ptl) 21-18, 23-21. Women’s doubles (semifinals): Tripat and Rakhi (Chd) b Satinder and Maninder (GMC Ptl) 21-18, 21-15; Dimple and Anubha (DMC Ldh) b Divya and Shaila (DMC Ldh) 21-19, 22-20. Mixed doubles (Final) Geetinder and Rakhi (Chd) b Vikas (DCM Ldh) and Satiner (GMC Ptl) 21-13, 14-21, 21-18. Women's team champions HIP (final): GMC Chd beat DMC Ldh 3-1 (Rakhi b Mandeep 21-14, 21-15 Maninder b Dimple 21-18, 21-17, Rakhi and Tripat b Dimple and Anubha 21-14, 21-19. Rakhi b Dimle 21-12, 21-17. Men’s team
championship (final) GMC Patiala b DMC (A) Ldh 3-2 Suresh
b Inderpreet 21-12, 18-21, 21-10. Amit b Anurag Duggal
22-20, 21-14, Rajan b Avneesh 8-21, 17-21. Amit lost to
Inderpreet Singh 21-23, 16-21, Suresh b Anurag Duggal
21-15, 21-18. |
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Harikrishan excels PATIALA, Aug 30 (FOSR) — A strokefilled knock of 60 runs studded with five fours and four sixes by 17-year old Harikrishan Mandora, enabled Arks School to clinch the title in the Patiala District Inter-Zone Schools Cricket Tournament, which concluded at the Khalsa College Grounds here today. Chasing the Arks School’s total of 155 for 7, their opponents Multipurpose School were reduced to 24 for four before the later decided to concede the match. Mixed luck for Arora CHANDIGARH, Aug 30 (TNS) — B.K. Arora today had a mixed luck in the YMCA Open Billiards and Snooker Championship, being held at the YMCA Hall, Sector-11, here in open billiards he defeated C.D. Cruz by a narrow margin 240-220. All through the match Cruz was maintaining a slender lead by concentrating on red potting till the last 20 minutes. Arora displayed some fine difficult canons, near the end game, and hit a break of 25 points to wrest the initiative from Cruz and finally won the match. However, Arora was completely outclassed in handicap snooker by Anil Sharma in two straight frames 59-33, 50-31. Anil displayed smooth potting and controlled his cue-ball to keep pressurising his opponent. Badminton meet CHANDIGARH, Aug 30 (BOSR) — As many as 400 badminton players will be seen in action in various age groups for the 33rd Haryana State Badminton Championships to be held at Services Club, Rohtak from September 9 to 12, according to Mr Manjeet Singh, secretary of the Haryana Badminton Association. The four-day meet will
have events in under 10, 13, 16, 19 for both boys and
girls and men , women and veterans. |
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