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Asiad selection put off again

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The national selectors were caught in an awkward position as they continued their discussion about the composition of the trap team for the second day running and thus had to delay the announcement of the Indian shooting contingent for the Asian Games by another day.

Though performance in the three selection trials was announced as the sole criterion, it was difficult for the selection committee of the National Rifle Association of India to leave out reigning World and Asian champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu, who could not figure in the top three in trap after the trials.

Despite keeping Manavjit and Mansher Singh in the squad, the selectors felt they should not stick to self-imposed stipulations and were trying to bring in Anwer Sultan.

Air rifle world champion Abhinav Bindra was exempted from taking the trials as he has been undergoing rehabilitation programme to set right a painful back, and been selected though his participation in Doha is still doubtful.

The likely team: Men: Pistol: Samaresh Jung, Bapu Vanzare, Zakir Khan, Pemba Tamang, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Panwar, Jaspal Rana, Ronak Pandit and Deepak Sharma. Rifle: Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, P.T. Raghunath, Sanjeev Rajput, Imran Hassan Khan, Suresh Singh Rathod and Sushil Ghaley. Shotgun: Trap: Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Mansher Singh and Anwer Sultan; Doubletrap: Lt. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Ronjan Sodhi and Vikram Bhatnagar; Skeet: A.D. Peoples, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Man Singh.

Women: Pistol: Sonia Rai, Harveen Srao and Shweta Choudhary. Rifle: Tejaswini Sawant, Suma Shirur, Avneet Kaur Sidhu, Deepali Deshpande and Anjali Bhagwat.

Arjun qualifies

Arjun Chopra defeated Zico Bahl 11-8, 5-11, 11-10 to make the main draw of the boys (under-10) section in the J. D. Tytler memorial-ranking badminton tournament at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here on Friday.

Four players from the girls (under-10), eight from the boys' (under-10) and 16 from the boys (under-13) moved into the main draw.

The results: Boys: U-13): Bhaskar Chakravarty bt Shubham Khatkar 11-5, 11-8; Shaleen Thakur bt Kulwinder 10-11, 11-4, 11-6; Vaibhav Kotnala bt Rohan Kapoor 11-6, 11-6; Trinayan Lakhar bt Gurpreet Singh 11-0, 11-3; Kritumay bt Ashish Bhasin 11-1, 11-4; Yash Nain bt Amandeep Singh 11-2, 11-4; Shikhar Aggarwal bt Hamed Bin Aziz 11-6, 8-11, 11-8; Pranay Arya bt Pramod Dasiya 11-7, 11-1; Wasim bt Sameer Joshi 11-7, 11-3; Ashish Sachdeva bt Didar Singh 11-3, 11-7; Lovesh bt Karan Narang 11-3, 10-11, 11-8; Abhilash Sharma bt Rishabh Sahdev 11-7, 11-7; Ritwij Basant bt Ashish 11-3, 11-3; Bhag Singh bt Sahil 11-5, 11-1; Harshwardhan Bisht bt Arjun Chopra 11-2, 11-3; Gaurav D. bt Akash 11-3, 11-7. U-10: Rohan Kapoor bt Sahaj 11-1, 11-1; Shikhar Agarwal bt Sidharth Bhatia 11-1, 11-1; Arjun Chopra bt Zico Bahl 11-8, 5-11, 11-10; Tarun Madan bt Kartikaye 11-1, 11-1; Tanishq Sachdeva bt Abhijeet 11-4, 12-10; Lakshya bt Shivan Luthra 11-4, 11-2; Arjun Pandit bt Shiwam Wahi 11-4, 11-9; Utkarsh Arora bt Sidhant Chopra 11-4, 11-3.

Girls: U-10: Kanika Kanwal bt Anjali Sansanwal 11-5, 11-3; Tanya Bhatt bt Tanisha Sachdeva 11-4, 11-6; Shivika Nehra bt Rageshree 11-5, 11-7; Bhavna Phogat bt Noor 11-9, 11-10.

Delhi sprinters win

Delhi sprinters Kader Khan and Komal Tehlan won the 200m gold medals in the boys and girls under-20 category on the concluding day of the North Zone junior athletics championship Saharanpur on Friday.

The results:

Boys: U-20: 200m: Kader Khan (Del) 22.63s, 1500m: Jai Prakash (Utr) 4:03.03, Triple jump: Manoj Kumar (AFI) 14.54m, Javelin: Vipin Kasana (UP) 62.37m, 10000m: Arvind Kumar Yadav (UP) 34:02.10. U-18: 200m: Praveen (AFI) 22.88s, 1500m: Naresh Malik (Har) 4:02.28, Triple jump: Mohit (UP) 14.88m, Javelin: Sandeep (AFI) 63.34m, 4x400m relay: AFI 3:24.32, 10km walk: 49:08.10. U-16: 400m: Vinod Kumar Sharma (UP) 51.03s, 2000m: Pradeep Kumar Yadav (UP) 5:46.83, Javelin: Krishan Kumar Patel (UP) 58.44m, 5 km walk: Gaurav Rathi (UP) 25:11.96.

Girls: U-20: Komal Tehlan (Del) 26.24s, 1500m: Manesh Jhakhar (Har) 4:53.75, Triple jump: Poonam Gill (AFI) 11.70m, Javelin: Anita Patel (UP) 40.85m, Hammer: Bhateri (AFI) 47.92m, 10 km walk: Kavita (AFI) 60:00.62. U-18: 200m: Ritu (AFI) 26.92s, 1500m: Savita (AFI) 4:36.51, Triple jump: Raksha Singh (UP) 11.12m, Javelin: Seema Maurya (UP) 35.60m, Hammer: Swati Singh (UP) 46.78m. U-16: 400m: Neha Nisar (Del) 1:01.34, 2000m: Reema Patel (UP) 6:37.58, Javelin: Anju Rathi (Har) 33.24.