SJAN celebrates National Sports Day

 Pramanik wins penalty shoot-out contest

Sports Journalists' Association of Nagpur (SJAN) celebrated National Sports Day, birth anniversary of hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand, by organising a penalty shoot-out competition at RTM Nagpur University ground on Tuesday.
Paritosh Pramanik of The Hitavada emerged winner while Amit Sampat of The Times of India finished runners-up. Naresh Shelke (Sakal) and Deep Sudhakar (Navbharat) were semi-finalists. National football player and Big Ben coach Nayeem Ansari distributed prizes  in the presence of SJAN president Dr Ram Thakur, treasurer Nilesh Deshpande, EC members Anupam Soni, Piyush Patil, Nikhil Kelapure, members Narendra Chore and Kshitij Udar.

Raut retains twin titles

KUNAL Raut of Mahasagar retained double crowns at the Ankur Seeds Carrom Tournament for Media Employees organised by Patrakar Club of Nagpur and Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur at Press Club, Civil Lines on Sunday.
In the men’s singles final Raut defeated Vijay Thakur of PTI Digital while in doubles, Raut and Vinod Suryawanshi ousted the pair of Bhimrao Lonare and Subhash Sharma of IBM TV 9. ‘The Hitavada’s Nasim Sheikh finished third in men’s singles event while Vijay Thakur-Girish Thakre pair took the third spot in men’s doubles.
Prizes were distributed by Bramhashankar Tripathi, Secretary, Patrakar Club of Nagpur. Dr Ram Thakur, President, SJAN; Paritosh Pramanik, Secretary; Naresh Shelke, Tournament Convenor Charudutta Kahu were present on the dais. Anupam Soni, Nilesh Deshpande, Kshitij Udar, Dilip Ramteke, Deep Sudhakar were also present.
Shelke conducted the programme and proposed a vote of thanks.
RESULTS
Men’s single semi-finals: Kunal Raut (Mahasagar) bt Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) 25-0; Vijay Thakur (PTI) bt Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) 25-4. Third place: Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) bt Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) 25-0. Final: Kunal Raut bt Vijay Thakur
25-6, 25-7.
Men’s doubles quarters: Kunal Raut-Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) bt Neeraj Chinchkhede-Rutu Borkar (Hitavada) 25-0. Semi-finals: Bhimrao Lonare-Subhash Sharma (IBM TV 9) bt Nasim Sheikh-Paritosh Pramanik (Hitavada) 13-12; Raut-Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) bt Vijay Thakur (PTI)-Girish Thakre (New Today Maha) 25-5. Third place: Vijay Thakur-Girish Thakre bt Paritosh Pramanik-Nasim Sheikh 23-11. Final: Kunal Raut-Vinod Suryawanshi bt Bhimrao Lonare-Subhash Sharma 25-6.

Ankur Seeds Carrom tourney for media persons begin

 

The Hitavada’s Nasim Sheikh stormed into the semi-finals of men’s singles and doubles events of the second edition of Ankur Seeds Carrom Tournament for Media Employees that got under way on Saturday at Press Club, Civil Lines. The tournament is organised by Patrakar Club of Nagpur and Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN). Sheikh, along with partner Paritosh Pramanik, defeated the pair of Sunny Bhongade (GTPL)-Sushil Atram (Nagpur Post) 25-0 to make doubles semis.
In the singles quarters, Sheikh got the better of Dharmendra Kumar (TOI) 25-0 to storm into last four.
The semis and final will be played on Sunday followed by prize distribution function.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Girish Gandhi, Trustee of Vanrai Foundation.
Vishal Umalkar, Executive Director, Ankur Seeds was the guest of honour. Patrakar Club of Nagpur President Pradip Kumar Maitra, Secretary Bramhashankar Tripathi, Tournament Convenor Charudatta Kahu, Sports Journalists Association of Nagpur Secretary Paritosh Pramanik shared the dais.
SJAN Treasurer Nilesh Deshpande, members Naresh Shelke, Piyush Patil, Kshitij Udar, Kishor Badge, Deep Sudhakar and others were also present. SJAN President Dr Ram Thakur conducted the programme and also proposed a vote of thanks.

Results: Singles 1st round: Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) beat Nakul Dongre (Hitavada) 25-0, Anil Deogade (Lokmat) beat Amol Maokar (Hitavada) 9-6, Charudatta Kahu (Tarun Bharat) beat Ratnakar Moraskar (Bhaskar) 16-8, Chittaranjan Nagdeote (Lokmat) beat Sushil Atram (Nagpur Post) 25-0, Girish Thakre (News Today Maha) beat Govind Kharetiya (Sahara Samay) 25-0, Sunny Bhangade (GTPL) beat Anupam Timothy (Hitavada) 26-0, Neeraj Chinchkhade (Hitavada) beat Durgaprasad Barwe (Supreme Power News) 22-0. 2nd round: Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) bt Bhimrao Lonare (IBM) 25-0, Paritosh Pramanik (Hitavada) bt Umesh Pawar (Yashogatha) 25-0, Vijay Thakur (PTI) bt Anil Deogade (Lokmat) 27-0, Kunal Raut (Mahasagar) bt Neeraj Chinchkhade (Hitavada) 25-0, Girish Thakre (News Today Maharashtra) bt Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) 19-11, Chittaranjan Nagdeote (Lokmat) bt Charudatta Kahu (Tarun Bharat) 24-6, Dharmendra Kumar (TOI) bt Sunny Bhongade (GTPL) 25-0. Quarters: Kunal Raut (Mahasagar) bt Chittranjan Nagdeote (Lokmat) 25-0; Vijay Thakur (PTI) bt Girish Thakre (News Today Maha) 25-8; Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) bt Dharmendra Kumar (TOI) 25-0; Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) beat Paritosh Pramanik (Hitavada) 16-12. Doubles quarters: Vijay Thakur (PTI)-Girish Thakre (News Today Maha) bt Charudatta Kahu-Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) 25-0; Paritosh Pramanik-Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) bt Sunny Bhongade(GTPL)-Sushil Atram (Nagpur Post) 25-0; Bhimrao Lonare-Subhash Sharma (IBM TV9) beat Dharmandra Kumar-Chittranjan Nagdeote (Lokmat-ToI) 20-9.