The Hindu : Sport : Surjeet Singh sets a new mark; takes gold

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Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006

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Surjeet Singh sets a new mark; takes gold

BANGALORE: Surjeet Singh of Karnataka heaved the alloy ball to a national record distance of 12.25 metres in the men's F-42 class deformity in the athletic event on the second and penultimate day of the eighth senior National championship at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Monday. The strapping engineer from Mico in Bangalore afflicted with polio since birth, bettered his own mark of 11.47 metres set in 2004, also in Bangalore in the sixth edition of the championship.

Surjeet, an international with two silver (shot put and discuss) and two bronze (javeline and long jump) to his credit thanked the support from his employers and his coach Bhaskaran, for making it big in the event.

In standing volleyball, Karnataka proved far too good for Tamil Nadu and won 15-5, 15-2.

The results: Athletics: Men: Long jump: F-12: 1. Sukdeviswas (WB), 2. Ranjit Ghosal (WB), 3. B. Ashok (Kar). F-44: 1. K. Chandrashekara (Kar), 2. Vijay Kumar (Del), 3. Debendra Kumar Sahoo (Ori). F-46: 1. Jagsher Singh (Raj), 2. J. Channakeshava (Kar), 3. Markanda Reddy (Ori).

Shot put: F-42: 1. Surjeet Singh (Kar) (National record), 2. Vijayrao Sindia (Kar), 3. Yemnappa Haraballi (Kar). F-44: 1. Som Kumar (Har), 2. Santha Muther (TN), 3. Stalin (TN). F-46: 1. Sunil (Har), 2. Manvir Singh (Pun), 3. Sriram Choudhary (Raj). F-58: 1. Madhavan M (TN), 2. M.K. Saha (Chd), 3. Prakash Mohare (Mah).

Women: Long jump: F 42: 1. Bilkis Khatun (WB), 2. Sharadaamma (Kar), 3. H.H. Siddagangamma (Kar). T-44: 1. K. Devi (Kar), 2. H.K. Ashwini (Kar), 3. Prema S (Kar). F-46: 1. B.T. Bhagya (Kar), 2. Sunitha (Har), 3. Dr. Sunitha Devi (Har).

Table tennis: Singles: Single leg class: Bhamusa Sk Faisal (AP) bt Kumar Aditya (Bih). Third place: Vijendra Kumar (Har). Wheel chair: N.B. Gurung (Mah) bt Valsalan Nadar (Mah). Third place: A.D. Pereira (Mah). Single hand class: Prasanta Karmarkar (WB) bt R. Murali (Kar). Third place: Joydev Mondal (WB). Double leg class: Raj Aravindan (TN) bt Yezdi Hagmara (Guj). Third place: Harish Bist (Mah). Doubles: Single leg class: Kumar Aditya Bih) & Vijendra Kumar (Har) bt Md Arif Abid & Bhamusa Sk Faisal (AP). Third place: Sanjay Bhoskar & Vishnu Chouhan (Mah). Wheel chair: N.B. Gurung & Valsalan Nadar (Mah) bt S.P. Tiwari & A.D. Pereira (Mah). Third place: M. Srnivasa Rao (AP) & Manoj Khaire (Mah). Single hand class: Prasanta Karmarkar & Joydev Mondal (WB) bt Dilip Mishra (Mah) & R. Murali (Kar). Third place: S. Krishnamurthy & Venkatesh (TN). Double leg: Raj Aravind (TN) & Surjeet Singh (Kar) bt Harish Bist (Mah) & Anand Kumar (Kar). Third place: Yezdi Bhagmara (Guj) & Mahadev Gawari (Mah).

Standing volleyball: Final: Karnataka bt TN 15-5, 15-2. Third place: Haryana bt Karnataka `B'.

MEG draws with CIL

Hamar's goal in the 79th minute helped MEG avoid the blushes and salvage a 2-2 draw against CIL in a George Hoover Cup super division league match at the football stadium here on Tuesday.

Lokeshwar Singh scored MEG's first goal while Sagar and Shyam Kumar scored for CIL.

The draw helped MEG draw alongside league topper HAL. Both teams have 18 points from eight matches. And the league champion will be decided on February 25 when HAL will clash with MEG in their ninth and final match.

Earlier, P.G. Raju's hat-trick (29th, 70th and 82nd mins) went in vain as AGORC suffered a 3-5 defeat against LRDE, which thrived on Govinda (2), Satish (2) and Karthik's efforts.

No State team for Senior National TT

The Karnataka Table Tennis Association (KTTA), for the first time, has failed to field a women's team for the senior National table tennis championship which got underway at Jaipur from Tuesday. The KTTA has sent only a five member men's team, spearheaded by the State champion Uday S. Athreya.

Explaining its predicament, the KTTA Secretary, Mr. G.N. Satyanarayana told The Hindu that all the leading women players including champion B.M. Ashwini, were busy preparing for their examinations and had opted out of the championship. "There was no point in fielding a depleted squad for the event and hence we were forced to scrap the team for the senior Nationals," he said.

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