Nair, Shelji triumph

MUMBAI, September 28: Western Railway athletes Sanjeev Nair and Shelji Joseph dominated the Orlem Road Races which concluded at St Anne's, ...

MUMBAI, September 28: Western Railway athletes Sanjeev Nair and Shelji Joseph dominated the Orlem Road Races which concluded at St Anne’s, Malad this morning.

While Nair clocked 39 minutes 41:9 secs to win the men’s open 12 kilometre event, Shelji took 18 minutes and 32:5 secs to clinch the women’s event covering a distance of 5 kms.

RESULTS

Men (12.5 km): 1 Sanjeev Nair (39:41:9); 2 P Bakhla; 3 Vijay KhasteBoys’ under-20: (8 km): 1 Arvind Shah (27:39); 2 Mahesh Monde; Amol KedareBoys’ under-17 (5 km): 1 Merwyn Fernandes (16:25:9); 2 Santosh Pithe; Amey Talekar

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Boys’ under-14 (3 km): 1 Vivek Pratap Singh (10:12:8); 2 Jitendra S Neman; Sushil Ambre

Boys’ under-12 (2 km): Mangesh Khamkar (7:24:6); 2 Dinesh Patil; Mukhadam Wasim

Women (5 km): 1 Shelji Joseph (18:32:5); 2 Asha Monde; 3 Shadaab AmruteGirls’ under-17 (3 km): Shubhangi Konduskar (11:12:7); 2 Pramila Ghadge; 3 Rupali Kadam

Girls’ under-14 (3 km): Manisha Gawade (11:44:3); 2 Ponam Rane; 3 Judy Verghese

Girls’ under-12 (2 km): Swati Pawar (7:37); 2 Shimona D’Costa; 3 Ajantha Ratnakumar

Boricha maintains lead

Ketan Boricha continued to lead the pack with one more victory, after the seventh round of the Sixth Pre-Rating Selection Chess Tournament, organised by the Bombay Chess Association at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Canteen, today.

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Boricha triumphed over 5th seed Ashish Thatte of Mulund Commerce College in a queens Gambit game, playing black. The game lasted for 36 moves.

In the other important match, 2nd seeded Prakash Date of Bank of India, also playing black, outwitted Shivaji Patil’s e2-e4 opening with his Sicilian Defence. Date won in 44 moves to set up a clash with the top-seeded Boricha next.

Results (seventh round): Ashish Thatte (5.5 points) lost to Ketan Boricha (7); Shivaji Patil (5) lost to Prakash Date (6); DK Desai (6) bt Sanjay Modi (5); Mohan Naik (5.5) bt Anant Chavan (5); G Balaji (5.5) bt Ninad Pandit (4.5); AN Iyer (5) drew with Girish Chandanani (5); Nitin Nawar (4.5) lost to Rohit Rana (5.5); Saumil Desai (5.5) bt S Kartik (4.5); Shirishkumar (4.5) lost to NS Subramaniam (5.5); Sameer Chavan (5.5) bt Vinayak Deval (4.5); Amar Kamat (4) lost to Subhash Honmurgi (5); Paresh Gandhi (5) bt Amit Kamat (4); Saurabh Barve (5) bt Amol Wagle (4); SJ Karmarkar (4) lost to DR Sahiar (5); Anand Raman (8) bt Abhijit Bhurke (4); Prashant Boricha (4) lost to SE Shirdhanka (5); Deepak Sagar (4) lost to KJ Mehta (5); Vinodkumar K (6) bt Nikhi Kamat (4); Ramesh Khadye (4.5) bt Subir Roy (3.5).