Commonwealth Games star Sharath Kamal was offered the Khel Ratna award by the President Droupadi Murmu on the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Wednesday night.
In an impressively crisp ceremony, the Dronacharya, Arjuna, Dhyan Chand, Tenzing Norgay, Khel Protsahan Puraskar and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad awards have been offered on the Durbar Hall in about 45 minutes.
The awards, usually offered on hockey wizard Dhyan Chand’s birthday of August 29, needed to be delayed owing to the Commonwealth Games, this yr. However, the timing was so good that everybody was in a position to attend in particular person, apart from hockey participant Deep Grace Ekka.
The President walked down the steps to current the Dhyan Chand award to Nir Bahadur Gurung, the para athlete, who was on a wheelchair.
The Khel Ratna award carries Rs.25 money prize. The Dronacharya and Arjuna awards fetch Rs.15 lakh, whereas the Dhyan Chand award, Rs.10 lakh.
The awardees:
Khel Ratna: Sharath Kamal (desk tennis).
Dronacharya: Dinesh Jawahar Lad (cricket), Bimal Ghosh (soccer), Raj Singh (wrestling), Jiwanjot Singh Teja (archery), Mohammad Ali Qamar (boxing), Suma Shirur (para capturing), Pradeep Maan (wrestling).
Arjuna: Seema Punia, Eldhose Paul, Avinash Sable (athletics); Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy (badminton); Amit, NIkhat Zareen (boxing); Bhakti Kulkarni, R Praggnanandhaa (chess); Sushila Devi (judo), Sakshi Kumari (kabaddi), Nayan Saikia (garden bowl), Sagar Ovhalkar (mallakhab), Elavenil Valarivan, Omprakash Mitharval (capturing); Sreeja Akula
(desk tennis), Viks Thakur (weightlifting), Anshu, Sarita (wrestling); Parveen (wushu), Manasi Joshi, Tarun Dhillon (para badminton); Swapnil Patil (para swimming), Jerlin Anika (deaf badminton).
Dhyan Chand: Ashwini Akkunji (athletics), Dharamvir Singh (hockey), BC Suresh (kabaddi), Nir Bahadur Gurung (para athletics).
Tenzing Norgay Adventure award: Naina Dhakad, Shubham Dhananjay
Vanmali, Kunwar Bhawani Singh Samyal.
Rashtriya Khel Protsahar Puraskar: TransStadia Enterprises Private Limited; Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Ladakh Ski & Snowboard Association.
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad trophy: Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BOXING
BFI secretary Hemanta chosen as ASBC Youth Commission chairman
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) secretary Hemanta Kalita has been chosen to function the Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC) Youth Commission chairman. A letter, dated November 29, from ASBC president Pichai Chunhavajira confirmed the appointment.
-Y.B. Sarangi
TENNIS
PSPB match
Vishnu Vardhan and VM Ranjeet mixed remarkably effectively to beat Asian Games gold medallists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan 7-5, 3-6, [10-6] in an entertaining doubles last of the forty first PSPB inter-unit tennis match on the DLTA Complex on Wednesday.
VM Ranjeet and Vishnu Vardhan have fun their win over Asian
Games gold medallists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan within the PSPB
tennis match in Delhi on Wednesday.
| Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan
After breaking Divij’s serve within the twelfth sport in profitable the primary set, the ONGC pair misplaced momentum and dropped the second. In the match tie-break, it was Bopanna and Divij who led 4-2, earlier than Vishnu and Ranjeet reeled off seven factors in a spell of exhilarating motion, to arrange 5 match factors at 9-4, and easing to a memorable triumph.
Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina received the boys’s and ladies’s singles titles for Indian Oil and ONGC respectively. Ramkumar beat fellow Davis Cupper Sumit Nagal 7-6(2), 7-6(2) as each asserted their serving prowess and court docket craft. Ankita beat Riya Bhatia for the lack of 4 video games.
VN Prem Prakash added to the gold assortment of ONGC, as he received the veterans singles, and the doubles title with SKP Bhandari.
The outcomes (finals):
Men: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Sumit Nagal 7-6(2), 7-6(2).
Doubles: Vishnu Vardhan & VM Ranjeet bt Rohan Bopanna & Divij Sharan 7-5, 3-6, [10-6].
Women: Ankita Raina bt Riya Bhatia 6-0, 6-4.
Veterans: VN Prem Prakash bt KS Rawat 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles: VN Prem Prakash & SKP Bhandari bt Santosh Kumar & KS Rawat 6-0, 6-3
-Kamesh Srinivasan
AITA ladies’s match
Shruti Gupta outplayed Ritu Ohlyan 6-1, 6-0 to arrange a semifinal conflict towards second seed Riya Uboveja within the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis match on the Joygaon Academy on Wednesday.
The different semifinal will probably be between prime seed Sandeepti Singh Rao and Rachita Talwar.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Bhumika Rohilla 6-0, 6-0; Rachita Talwar bt Ritu Rai 6-2, 6-4; Shruti Gupta bt Ritu Ohlyan 6-1, 6-0; Riya Uboveja bt Ananya Dhankhar 7-5, 6-0.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
National championship
Railways was in tremendous kind because it received its matches in each the boys’s and ladies’s occasions within the second stage of the 72nd National basketball championship on the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall on Wednesday.
The Railway males beat Delhi 91-62 with Palpreet Singh and Sahil doing the majority of scoring. In the ladies’s occasion, Railways outplayed West Bengal 107-58.
The outcomes:
Men: Railways 91 (Palpreet Singh 20, Sahil 18, Jai Venkitesh 12, Rakesh Singh 12, Santhosh Mani 11) bt Delhi 62 (Prince Tyagi 16, Himanshu 12).
Punjab 67 (Amjoth Singh 17, Amritpal Singh 13, Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 13) bt Kerala 35
Women: Kerala 88 (PS Jena 21, Stephy Nixon 13, R Sreekala 13, Kavitha Jose 10) bt Maharashtra 57 (Durga Dharmadhakari 22).
Delhi 81 (Raspreet Sidhu 26, Garima Goswami 12, Ishika Chowdhary 11) bt Uttar Pradesh 63 (Shagun Patel 14, Megha Singh 13).
Railways 107 (Poonam Chaturvedi 14, Madhu Kumari 13, Dharshini 11, Nima Bhutia 11, Shruthi Aravind 10) bt West Bengal 58.
Karnataka 70 (Varsha Nandini 26, Niharika Reddy 14) bt Tamil Nadu 56 (Shobhana 25, Sruti 14).
-Kamesh Srinivasan