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A.L. Mudaliar meet from today

CHENNAI: It’s one of the most sought-after meet in the city’s athletic calendar. The 40th A. Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar athletic meet to be held at the Nehru Stadium here from October 16 to 18 offers athletes from Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Chengleput an opportunity to showcase their skills and rest assured that their performances will not go unnoticed.

This year, it has been decided to exclude professional colleges. “This time around, we have chosen to include only those colleges affiliated to Madras University,” said Dr. V. Mahadevan, Assistant Director of Physical Education, University of Madras.

To bolster his argument, Mahadevan said since the engineering colleges have their own meet, it’s high time the Madras University had one its own.

Four hundred and fifty participants from 19 men’s and 14 women’s colleges will be taking part in 43 events in total — 22 for men and 21 for women (no pole vault).

“The benefits of this meet are two-fold. One, it gives employment opportunities for the athletes and second, it gives avenues for further studies for the athletes through sports quota,” said Mahadevan.

Sangeetha stuns Singh

M.R. Sangeetha, playing white, stunned International Master D.P. Singh in a third round game of the Maharaja Agrasen FIDE-rated open chess tournament.

Another third-round upset featured K.V. Santharam of Indian Bank losing to the lesser rated Bharathi, who played black.

Important results: Third round: Venkatesh (2) lost to R.R. Laxman (3); M.R. Sangeetha (3) bt D.P. Singh (2); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2) lost to G.B. Prakash (3); N. Sudhakar Babu (3) bt Venkat Sundaram (2); R.K. Ranjit (2) lost to Ram S. Krishnan (3); Ganesh Babu (2) lost to Shyam Nikil (3); Pawashe Ankiet (3) bt Maheshwaran (2); R.A. Pradeep Kumar (3) bt Ajay Srikkanth (2); Santhosh Kumar (2) lost to V.A.V. Rajesh (3); K.V. Shantharam (2) lost to R. Bharathi (3).

KFM prevails

Kottur Full Moon (KFM) edged HVF 3-2 in a Chennai Hockey Association first division league at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium on Sunday. Thirumurugan, Kuppan and Srinivasan scored for the winner, while Gopi and Vijayakumar converted for HVF.

Other results: Toronto HC 7 (Vinoj 3, Srinivasan, Sankar, Arjun, Hari Prasad) bt Morning Star HC 0; Cathedral United 2 (Samuel, Karthik) bt Indian Airlines 1 (Janakiraman); Divakar Memorial 4 (Gandhi, Mahesh, Porchezhian, Kumaru) bt Homely HC 0.

Easy for Vivekananda

M. Balajee scored 50 runs and picked up three wickets for 22 runs, to take R.K.M. Vivekananda College to a 99-run win over Jaya College of Arts & Science, in the 11th Dr. Sarat Chandra staff cricket tournament, here. V. Tulasidaran made 90 for RKM.

The scores: RKM Vivekananda 202 for three in 20 overs (M. Balajee 50, V. Tulasidaran 90) beat Jaya College of Arts & Science 103 in 16.4 overs (T.A. Selva Kumar 37, Balajee three for 22).

DG Vaishnav 93 in 17.5 overs (Raja Sekar 35, Kamaraj four for 18) lost to SRM University 95 for three in 12.1 overs (E.P. Siva 25, Ojas Maha Patra 48).

Sankara Nethralaya 181 for eight in 20 overs (Arul Kumar 61, Venkatesan 25) beat Thiruthangal Nadar Arts & Science College 163 for six in 20 overs (Rajesh 38, Purushothaman 42, Tamarai Selvan 26).

Sree Balaji Dental College 70 in 19 overs (Annamalai three for 14) lost to SA Engineering College 71 for three in 15.2 overs (Mudassar 28).

Jeppiar Engineering College 123 for four in 20 overs (Sasi Kumar 52, Narasimhan 35 not out) beat IIT Madras 75 in 19.1 overs (Raja three for 14).

Sathish is ‘Mr. YMIA’

D. Sathish Kumar was adjudged ‘Mr. YMIA 2007,’ while J. Selvam was declared ‘Most Muscular Man 2007,’ in the YMIA Physical Culture Day, celebrated in connection with the 161st birthday of founder Dr. Annie Besant, recently.

The winners: Powerlifting: Bench-press: R. Karthikeswaran (260lbs); Squat: V.J. Krishnamurthy (300lbs); Deadlift: V.J. Krishnamurthy (380lb).

Best physique contest: Body-building: 60kg: J. Selvam; 70kg: M. Abdullah; Above-75kg: D. Sathish Kumar.

St. Joseph’s sizzles

St. Joseph’s College of Engineering triumphed in the powerlifting and chess (men and women) events in the recently concluded Anna University inter-zone tournaments. St. Joseph’s also finished second in the best physique team event.

The medal winners: Best physique: P. Yogananth (gold, 90kg); Vasu Ram (gold, 85kg). Powerlifting: Suresh (gold, 75kg); P. Yogananth (gold, 90kg); V. Vijith (gold, 67.5kg); S. Ranjith (gold, 110kg); G. Gnaguru (silver, 60kg); V. Satish Kumar (silver, 125kg); Dilip Kumar (bronze, 52kg).

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