City rowers lead the way

Surjit Mann won the wrestling gold in 76 kg free style bout.

The Chandigarh rowers won gold medals in the 500m single scull (Nardev Singh), 500m and 1000m coxless pair (Tejinder Singh and Baljit Singh), 500m and 1000m double scull (Nardev Singh and Dalel Khan) and 1000m coxless four (Tejinder Singh) in the men’s section while the pair of Rameshwari and Soumya won a gold in the women’s 500m coxless pair.

In judo, Yashpal Solanki (below 81 kg), Prashant Verma (below 61 kg) won gold medals among men while Babita Negi (open weight) got the gold among women.

Medal winners
Wrestling: Men: Gold: Surjit Mann (76 kg free style); Silver: Parvesh Dutt (63kg) and Raj Singh (69kg).
Rowing: Men: Gold: Nardev Singh (500m single scull), Tejinder Singh-Baljit Singh (500m and 1000m coxless pair); Nardev Singh-Dalel Khan (500m and 1000m double scull), Tejinder Singh (1000m cox-four); Silver: 500m cox-four (Tejinder, Dalip, Roop Chand, Jatinder Kumar and Ganesh Kumar), Nardev Singh (1000m single scull).

Women: Gold: Rajeshwari-Soumya (500m coxless pair); Silver: Rajeshwari (1000m single scull), 1000m cox-four (Babina Sharma, Renuka Sarkar, Ranjana Kumari, Manjula and Reena Biswas; Bronze: Salina-Meera Devi (1000m double scull), Rajeshwari Devi (500m single scull), Meena Devi-Salina (1000m double scull), Salina-Rajeshwari (1000m coxless pair).
Judo: Men: Gold: Yashpal Solanki (below 81kg) and Prashant Verma (below 61 kg); Bronze: Mukesh (below 56kg).
Women: Gold: Babita Negi (open weight); Bronze: Rashmi (48kg), Ravinderdeen Kaur (63kg) and Babita Negi (below 76kg).
Kayaking and caoeing: Men: Bronze: Jarnail Singh (C-1/200m).
Boxing: Men: H S Saini (middle weight).
Medals Tally: 11 Gold, 6 Silver and 10 Bronze. Total: 27 medals.
Alpine school best
Alpine Primary School, Kalka won team title in the fourth District Panchkula ITF taekwondo championship which was held recently at Pinjore. The school won a total of eight gold, 25 silver and 10 bronze medals in the tourney.

UTCA AGM
The annual general body meeting of the Union Territory Cricket Association, which was scheduled to be held on February 28 at Lake Club has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. According to spokesman of the UTCA, Vaneet Chawla, the AGM will now be held on March 7 at the same venue.

TT trials
The All India Civil Services Table Tennis Tournament will be held at Bhopal from March 10 to 16. All eligible and interested players of Central Governments at Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh should report to Lt Col CS Bewli at Table Tennis Hall, Sector 23 on February 27 at 10.00 a.m.

College athletics
The annual athletic meet of Government College, Sector 46 will be held tomorrow. DPI DS Mangat will inaugurate the meet at 10 a.m. while SDM P S Gill will distribute the prizes at 3.30 p.m.

Ranji camp on
All Punjab probables, except Navjot Singh Sidhu, reported for the Ranji Trophy side’s preparation camp at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium (S.A.S. Nagar near here) for the remaining two Super League macthes. Punjab, led by Vikram Rathore, earned three points from their drawn encounter with Rajasthan at Jaipur and then lost outright to Hyderabad (at Hyderabad) earlier this month and will have to win both their remaining matches (against Baroda and Bengal) to remain in contention for a place in the knock-out stage of the tournament. Punjab play Baroda at Baroda (March 4 to 7) and Bengal at Calcutta (March 14 to 17).

Punjab’s pace spearhead, Harvinder Singh, has still not recovered fully from the side strain he suffered before the team’s opening match. Though he bowled a few from some paces, Harviner looked discomforted by the pain. This would further dent the team’s morale, fresh from the ignominy of defeat to Hyderabad, when they seemed to have the match wrapped up before the batting order caved in.