Thursday, October 21, 2010

6200 to take part in Haryana State Games

by Haryanawirenews (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, OCT 21
As many as 6,2OO players and technical officials in 29 sports disciplines would participate in four- day 24th Haryana State Games, said Haryana Olympic Association (HOA) president P.V. Rathee while addressing a press conference at Faridabad today. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would the Games on Friday.
Competitions in athletics, basketball, gymnastic, handball, judo, kabaddi (National), kabaddi (Circle), kho kho, lawn-tennis, roller skating, swimming, table tennis, triathlon and volleyball would be conducted at Sports Complex, Sector 12 Faridabad. Archery, boxing, chess, football, karate, netball, tekwondo, throw ball, weightlifting and wushu would be played at Nahar Singh Stadium, NIT. Badminton and wrestling matches would be conducted at NIT-3 Sports Complex and Fencing at 13 Panth Bhawan, Sector 10 Faridabad. Hockey and ten pin bowling would be conducted in Gurgaon.

HOA President said that some international players including the CWG gold medal winner Krishna Poonia had already confirmed their participation and we have made suitable changes in sports schedule as per their convenience.
Our small state with just 2 per cent population had won maximum number of medals in CWG. The people’s support during the welcome of Queen’s Baton has endorsed the sports policy of the state government, he added.
"Our next target is Olympic Games", HOA president said. He said that Asian Games would be bit tough as the competition is stiffer. He said that shooting would be included in next state games.
HOA General Secretary Mr Narender Hooda, Media Adviser to Chief Minister Mr Sunder Pal Singh, OSD to Chief Minister & Haryana Basket Ball Association president Mr Ravinder Singh, District Olympic Association president & Deputy Commissioner Dr Pravin Kumar were also present on the occasion.

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