Firoz, Harmeet lead golf standings

FEBRUARY 8: Promising Harmeet Kahlon of Chandigarh led the field for the `Mahindra Rookie Golfer of the Year' title by being the highest m...

FEBRUARY 8: Promising Harmeet Kahlon of Chandigarh led the field for the `Mahindra Rookie Golfer of the Year’ title by being the highest money earner with Rs 2.7 lakhs, well ahead of Digvijay Singh (Rs 1.7 lakhs).

Mumbai’s Manohar Dike, having made 10 cuts out of 12 starts, and with a putting average of 1.56 per hole, topped in the race for the `Mahindra Champion Putter of the Year’ award.

Standings (after 14 events):

Professionals: 1 Firoz Ali (181 pts) Rs 6.7 lakhs prize-money; 2 Vijay Kumar (180) Rs 8.4 lakhs; 3 Mukesh Kumar (171) Rs 5.5 lakhs; 4 Rohtas Singh (118) Rs 4.3 lakhs; 5 Shiv Prakash (111) Rs 4.6 lakhs; 6 Basad Ali (99) Rs 3.5 lakhs; 7 Ali Sher (93) Rs 3.3 lakhs; 8 Amritinder Singh (88) Rs 4.5 lakhs; 9 Rafiq Ali (85) Rs 3.5 lakhs; 10 Sanjay Kumar (70) Rs 2.4 lakhs.

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Rookie Golfer: 1 Harmeet Kahlon (Rs 2.7 lakhs); 2 Digvijay Singh (Rs 1.7 lakhs); 3 Zai Kipgen (Rs 1.5 lakhs).

Putter of the Year: 1 Manohar Dike (10 cuts) 1.56 av; 2 Monish Bindra (10) 1.61; 3 Gaurav Ghei (5) 1.62; 4 Sanjay Kumar (13) 1.62; 5 Amritinder Singh (8) 1.63.

Sonia skipper

Sonia Dabir of Pune will lead West Zone in the All-India Under-19 women’s inter-zonal cricket championship, at Rae Bareli from February 13-17.

Team: Sonia Dabir (cap), Snehal Balsare, Vaishali Landge, Devika Palshikar, Manjiri Bhanushali, Namrata Shinde, Ashwini Biniwale (All Maharashtra), Sunetra Paranjpe (vice-cap), Amita Patil, Shilpa Murudkar (all Mumbai), Leena Deshpande, Prithvi Bandekar (both Goa), Payal Panchal, Hetal Patel, Arpita Patel, Priti Varma (all Gujarat).

Etambe, Parimi top seeds

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Nagsen Etambe and Parimi Nirmala have been given the pride of place in the Pune Mayor Trophy first Maharashtra Ranking Rs 60,000 carrom tournament, to be conducted by the Pune Mahanagar Palika, from February 10 to 13 at the Pandit Nehru Stadium, Pune. The championship will start with open singles from 10.00 a.m.

Seedings:

Open singles (384 entries): 1 Nagsen Etambe, 2 Mahendra Tambe, 3 Narsing Rao, 4 Mohammed Sajjid, 5 Sanjay Mande, 6 Arun Kedar, 7 Dilesh Khedekar and 8 Babulal Shrimal.

Women’s singles: 1 Parimi Nirmala, 2 Anupama Kedar, 3 Nalini Bolinjkar, 4 Sangeeta Chandorkar, 5 Monaz Tanttra, 6 Shilpa Joshi, 7 Meenal Lele and 8 Shubhada Nagaonkar.

Veteran singles: 1 Salim Akbar Ansari, 2 Mukim Shaikh, 3 Keshav Kotian and 4 Suresh Dumbre.

YMCA swimming course

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The Bombay YMCA will conduct a certificate swimming course, this month, at the Procter YMCA pool, Agripada. For details contact Leonard Salins on Tel: 307 8457.

National taekwondo

The Taekwondo Association of Maharashtra will conduct the 18th National taekwondo championship, for men and women, at the Mulund Sports Complex, Mulund (W), Mumbai 400 080.

In view of the 14th Asian championship, scheduled to be held at Hong Kong in May, the selection trials for the Indian team will be held during the championship.