PUNE, Aug 1: City’s Chandrakant Shirole has been elected on the 18-member international umpires panel for the FISA World Junior Rowing Champions ’99 which will be held in Bulgaria from August 4 to 8.
Shirole is council member of the Rowing Federation of India from Maharashtra. He is also a honorary treasurer of the Maharashtra Olympic Association and has been involved with rowing since the last 20 years. He has also been an Asiad official in India.
More than 850 rowers from more than 30 countries worldwide will be participating in this championship.