The Hindu : Double for U.P.

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004

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Double for U.P.

KOLKATA, MARCH 22. The benefit of having the services of a Chinese coach back home enabled Uttar Pradesh girls to dethrone Bengal as the team champion in the 17th sub-junior National gymnastics championship at the SAI, Eastern Centre, here on Monday. It was a grand double for U.P. as it had annexed the boys' team title on Sunday.

Buoyed by Apoorva Srivastava's fine showing, the U.P. girls' team snatched the gold medal from Bengal by accumulating 344.635 points. Bengal, which trailed by little more than a point at the end of the compulsory exercises on Sunday, was pushed to the silver position when it ended with 336.445 after the optional exercises. Maharashtra took the bronze medal by collecting 317.042 points. Punjab (304.481), Tripura (292.048) and Andhra Pradesh (287.998) followed the leaders in that order.

Tiny Tanuka Dhara, an eight-year-old, was the best on view in the Bengal team but her poor showing in the uneven bars proved too costly for the host. The fourth standard student from Dankuni, a small town in Hooghly district, approximately 25 k.m. from Kolkata, otherwise did well in her maiden National meet after emerging the best in her first State meet held earlier this year. — Our Special Correspondent

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