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India to host World Yoga meet

CHANDIGARH, Dec 6: The International Yoga Sports Federation has allotted the eighth World Olympic Yoga Sports Championship to India. Disc...

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CHANDIGARH, Dec 6: The International Yoga Sports Federation has allotted the eighth World Olympic Yoga Sports Championship to India. Disclosing this today, Indian Yoga Federation president Dharam Vir said that the World Championship would be conducted in Chandigarh in October next year.

He said that the IYSF, which is affiliated to the World Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (Germany), had allotted the fifth World Artistic Yoga Sport Championship to the Mexico Yoga Federation.

The Indian team which competed in the seventh World Yoga Sports Cup in Argentina, returned home with a creditable performance. The Indian team comprising Shalini Malhotra (captain), Bal Mukund Singh, Navin Acharya, Upender Kumar Arya, Deepti Sharma, Jyoti Yadav, Puneet Juneja and Abhishek Tanwar, finished runners-up. Hosts Argentina pipped them by a wafer-thin margin of one point (16-15). Brasil were third.

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Shalini Malhotra said that the Indians were also runners-up in the World Contorsion Sport Cup. Hosts Argentina emerged winners while the third place was claimed by Brasil. Argentina were also champions in the first World Yoga Super Cup. India had to remain content with the runners-up spot while Brasil were third.

Meanwhile, International Yoga Sport Federation president Dr Fernando Estevez-Griego in a letter to the Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi and Secretary of Sports, Ministry of Sports, Government of India, had clarified that the Indian Yoga Federation, headed by Dharam Vir `is the only organisation member of the IYSF from India. (We can have only one member from each country).

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