M.S. Shreyas Chandra of JWGC, Mysuru, seen receiving the Category ‘A’ and Combined winners trophy from Gopinath, Vice-President, Coimbatore Golf Club in the IGU Yes Bank Tamil Nadu Junior Boys Golf Championships which concluded on Friday.
Mysuru :
Mysuru lad M.S. Shreyas Chandra of JWGC, Mysuru, taking part in the IGU Yes Bank Tamil Nadu Junior Boys Golf Championships at Coimbatore Golf Course from July 5-8 won the title in the Category ‘A’ and Combined section with a four-day aggregate score of 294 (68+71+74+81).
Incidentally it was a good week for JWGC’s junior golfers as another junior golfer Pranavi S. Urs won the Category ‘B junior girls title beating her rival Anika Varma (UP) in a play-off after both of them were tied with a two-day score of 158 in the IGU Telangana Ladies & Junior Girls Golf Championships held at Hyderabad Golf Course recently.
Mysuru girl Drishti Karumbaya finished 9th in the Category ‘A’ section with a two-day score of 166, while another upcoming golfer Disha Kavery finished 5th in the Category ‘C’ section with a two-day score of 171.
Final Placings
IGU Yes Bank Tamil Nadu Junior Golf Championships
Category ‘A’ & Combined
1. M.S. Shreyas Chandra (Mysuru) – 68+71+74+81 = 294
Raghavendra seen receiving the winner’s trophy from FIDE Vice-President D.V. Sundar as Woodlands Hotel Director Ramakrishna, Director, AICF Joint Secretary Hotel Woodlands Proprietor Geeta Rao, UKCA Vice-President Nagendra Muralidhar and Secretary Aravind Shastry look on.
Mysuru :
Raghavendra of Bengaluru with 8 points from nine rounds clinched the title in the Karnataka State Amateur Chess Championship 2016,conducted by the United Karnataka Chess Association (UKCA) at Hotel Woodlands in Bengaluru recently.
Sameer Ghotane (Belagavi), Chincholimath Halsagar (Belagavi), M.Raju (B’luru) and Kedar Umesh Vaze (Shivamogga) with 7.5 points from 9 rounds secured the places from second to fifth places respectively.
Mysuru girl, M. Tulsi with 7 points from 9 rounds secured the 12th place. Other Mysuru players, Chaitanya Ganesh (6 pts-37th place), K.S. Chiranjan Kumarr (5.5 pts-59th place), R. Ashuthosh Srivatsa (5 pts-85th place), Ananya R. Patel (4.5 pts-114th place) fared well in the tournament.
Final Placings: V. Raghavendra (B’luru-8), Sameer Ghotane (Belagavi- 7.5-44.25), Chincholimath Halsagar (Belagavi- 7.5-41.75), M. Raju (B’luru-7.5-41.00), Kedar Umesh Vaze (Shivamogga- 7.5-40.75), Varma Shabdik (DK-7), J.K. Goutham (Shivamogga-7), P.Jagadish (B’luru-7 pts), Bharadwaj Akshay (B’luru-7), Ansuman Mohanty (B’luru-7) and M. Tulsi (Mysuru-7).
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / July 08th, 2016
Last year’s National Amateur Chess Champion and top seeded M.P. Ajith of Mysuru, taking part in the Karnataka State Amateur Chess Championship-2016 conducted by United Karnataka Chess Association at Hotel Woodlands, Bengaluru, on Sunday, won his fourth round tie and with four points from four rounds, is in the lead with six other players in the tournament.
In the fourth round, M.P. Ajith scored a creditable win over Mysuru girl M. Tulsi (3 points).
Six other players — Varma Shabdhik, Anshuman Mohanty, K. Durgesh, P. Jagadish, S. Svatejas and M.Satvik — have also secured four points from four rounds and are placed from second to seventh in the rankings.
Other Mysuru players — M. Tulsi (3 points – 25th), Chaitanya Ganesh (3 points – 51st), S. Asuthosh (2 points – 90th), Ananya R. Patel (2 points – 105th), K.S. Chiranjan Kumar (2 points – 132nd) and Dhatri Umesh (1.5 points – 144th) are also faring well in the tournament.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / July 04th, 2016
Members of the Mangalore Bicycle Club planting saplings at Baikampady Industrial Estate in Mangaluru on Sunday.—Photo: special arrangement
Members of Mangalore Bicycle Club plant 50 saplings
Members of the Mangalore Bicycle Club celebrated the fifth anniversary of the club founding day in a manner suitable to what they stand for—preserving the nature and conserving the environment—by planting 50 saplings of different varieties of trees and undertaking the responsibility of their growth.
Nearly hundred cyclists, who assembled at the City Corporation Circle at Lal Bagh early Sunday morning, pedalled towards Baikampady Industrial Area in Mangaluru and converged on the Prakash Offset Printers’ premises, which belongs to one of the members, Anand Prabhu. As they regrouped themselves, Lions district past governor K.C. Prabhu and environmentalist Dinesh Nayak, addressed the gathering.
Mr. Prabhu commended the riders and said that more Mangalureans should come forward for such initiatives. Mr. Nayak spoke about the medicinal values of saplings that were ready to be planted.
He said that fruit-bearing trees too were important for the conservation of environment as they were the ones sustaining the fauna in the environment. The saplings were provided by the Forest Department.
Later, one plant each was taken by two members, who planted them along the boundary line of the premises.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangaluru / by Special Correspondent / Mangaluru – June 28th, 2016
City’s upcoming paddler M.V. Spoorthi taking part in the R.S. Shakuntala Memorial State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at KGS Club, Bengaluru hogged the limelight by bagging a triple crown on Sunday.
Spoorthi won the women’s singles, youth girls singles and junior girls singles titles. In the women’s singles final, Spoorthi beat Swetha Kumaravel 11-7, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5, 11-6.
In the Youth girls singles final, Spoorthi beat V. Kushi 11-6, 7-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-7.
Earlier, Spoorthi had won the junior girls singles title and thus completed a fine treble.
In the men’s singles event, Anirban Tarafdar beat city’s Akshay Mahanta 10-12, 14-12, 12-10, 11-7, 11-3 in the quarter-finals while Rakshith beat city’s Vedanth M. Urs 13-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-5 in another quarter-final.
In the Youth boys singles quarter-final, Nikhil beat Vedanth M. Urs 9-11, 5-11, 11-8, 5-11, 11-8, 11-7, 13-11 to progress further.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / June 21st, 2016
Dhruthi T. Venugopal (left) and Kyra Shroff who won the women’s doubles title in the Mary Pierce Indian Ocean Series ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at Mauritius, seen with the winners’ trophy.
Mauritius :
Mysuru-based Dhruthi T. Venugopal teaming up with Kyra Shroff representing India in the Mary Pierce Indian Ocean Series $10,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at Mauritius which concluded on Sunday, won the women’s doubles title.
In the final, second seeded Dhruthi and Kyra combined well to score an upset win over top-seeds Chayenne Ewijk and Rosale van Der Hoek of Netherlands 6-1, 6-1 to clinch the title.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / June 21st, 2016
A four-year-old girl Brundavani Abbigeri of the Roller Skating Club set a new world record in limbo skating at Kaiga on Sunday. She created the record by limbo skating under a course of 5.5 inches bars. She also created another record by limbo skating for 600 metres.
The Roller Skating Club of Kaiga organised the event on the premises of the Kaiga Township Recreation Club. Brindavani set the new record in front of the representative of the Record Holders Republic (RHR) India. The Kaiga Roller Skating Club office-bearers told reporters that the club will file an application to document the record at the Limca Book of Records and the Asian Book of Records. Representative of the Record Holders’ Republic, Promod Ruiya, documented the new record.
Shubhan Hanbar of the same school had earlier set a record by limbo skating under 5.6 inch bars in 2011.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Karnataka / by Express News Service / June 20th, 2016
From begging to bagging medals, this athlete has sprinted a long way
No fancy shoes, no newfangled techniques, and no formal training whatsoever — just plain old-fashioned grit, passion for the sport, and feet that fly off the ground. Meet 14-year-old Chandramma K, the student who has bagged several gold medals in athletics at various inter-school competitions over the last few years, including the first place in 100-metre and 200-metre sprints at the taluk-level in 2015-16.
Defying all odds and ousting competitors from all over Bengaluru who had had proper coaching, she also came in first at the 100-m dash at ‘Gail – The Fastest Indian’ event in 2014. But life was hardly a bed of roses for the little girl.
Chandramma was all of seven years old when she and her younger brother, Narasimha, were rescued from the streets in 2010 — the cops had picked them up for beggary. Taken in by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), the siblings’ parents said they would come back for them, but never did.
The duo was then sent to the care of Annapoorna Charitable Trust in Jnana Ganga Nagar where they were nurtured and educated. But little did the staff know that Chandramma would turn out to be a gifted athlete. Now in class 7 at Balya Vidya Mandir, run by the NGO, she is able to read and write in English and Kannada, and has learnt the basics of operating a computer.
While running is her forte, Chandramma has also won laurels in high-jump and long-jump events, and is a strong team player in kabaddi as well as kho-kho. Though she does not train on a daily basis, she practises intensively a month or so before any major competition is due.
At the end of the day though, Chandramma is like any other growing girl. Her favourite food is chapatti with potato curry, and loves chocolate so much that she has often been caught red-handed stealing it from the fridge!
HIGHLIGHTS
14-year-old Chandramma K, has bagged several gold medals in athletics at various inter-school competitions over the last few years
She also came in first at the 100-m dash at ‘Gail – The Fastest Indian’ event in 2014
Chandramma was rescued from the streets in 2010, after which she was sent to the care of Annapoorna Charitable Trust
ABOUT THE TRUST
Annapoorna Charitable Trust currently houses 70 boys and girls with separate living quarters, and looks after their education, food, clothing, medical needs, and vocational expenses. It costs Rs 4,500 to fund one child for an entire month. Those interested in donating can contact the NGO at 080-23399359 or walk into their office at #13, MICO Layout, Attiguppe, Vijayanagar, Bengaluru.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Bangalore / Prakruti PK, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / June 16th, 2016
Mysuru-origin Ishwar to inaugurate World Yoga Championship at Italy in July
Dr. Vishwanath and his wife Dr. Mamatha Vishwanath with their son Ishwar and daughter Indira.
by N. Niranjan Nikam
I was at my hairdresser Ravi’s saloon last week waiting for my turn when he was in conversation with another customer and the word Yoga was uttered. He asked him was it not something which the foreigners did and I at that point intervened and told them how Yoga was from India and two of the best exponents B.K.S. Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois, who spread yoga to the world, were from Mysuru.
A few days later, just to give credence to Ravi’s understanding that it was something the foreigners did, came the news that a British-born six-year-old UK National Yoga Championship Gold medallist, who has his roots in Mysuru, was visiting the city with his father, a Silver medallist at the same Championship.
I was eagerly looking forward to meet the father-son duo, who were visiting Mysuru. We met at the Windflower Spa and Resort and even as I waited for the child prodigy to appear, I was thinking how this precocious child who had won not just some event but a championship that puts body, mind and soul together be. A thought ran through my mind has he already attained that level of being that nothing disturbs him and he is very poised, controlled, and confident and in yoga like stance all the time.
The cute, sweet looking boy Ishwar Vishwanath Sharma emerged, all of six years in a white full arm shirt, shorts and a typical boyhood cut that we have all sported during our growing up years. He immediately got busy, even as his father Dr. N. Vishwanath, who had chosen some spots for him to do his asanas for the photographs, had gone to change into yoga gear.
Ishwar’s eyes fell on the big chess pawns laid out on the ground and he decided to demonstrate there. Ishwar then, wearing his Gold Medal started performing some of the asanas like the yoganidrasana, dhanurasana and vrikshanasana and also naming them.
Even as I also watched fully impressed, even as our photographer got busy clicking, wondering how this kid at this age could show so much of concentration, it snapped and suddenly like the normal child he is, otherwise, began to throw tantrums.
His father Dr. Vishwanath was just not able to convince him anymore that he should do some more asanas so that more pictures could be taken.
I was glad that the innocent six-year-old has stayed just that in spite of achieving fame at such a young age. As he went off to play with his cousin and grandmother, Dr. Vishwanath recounted those unbelievable, once in a life-time achievement of his son and his own at the national stage in UK.
“I have been practicing yoga since the last 25 years. It has helped me quite a lot in my profession both mentally and physically. Ishwar started watching me do my yoga from the age of 4. By age 5 he started doing the asanas himself,” recalls Dr. Vishwanath.
He then trained for almost one year and apart from his father, Ishwar was also given special training by Pushpita, a yoga expert from Bengaluru. His training increased from half hour to three hours as Dr. Vishwanath had decided to enter him into the National Yoga Championship.
Ishwar struck gold in his very first attempt on April 16, 2016, beating bigger and stronger boys four to five years his senior in the Under-11 Category. And to add to the family’s kitty, Dr. Vishwanath bagged the silver in the men’s category.
“I was definitely stunned by my son’s and my own performance. After all, we were participating in such an event for the first time,” exulted Dr. Vishwanath.
Immediately the BBC Television was at their doorsteps shooting the kid and the father and the next day they were under the arc lights in the television studios.
Ishwar, who is studying in Steephill School, Kent, in the first standard (Upper-one) is in big demand teaching yoga to his classmates and he is being called to all other places too to demonstrate his skills.
Dr. Vishwanath wants to see that his son is ready when that day comes and he is looking at 2024 when it is likely to happen. “But more importantly, for me it should be a part of his life where his body, mind and spirit is in perfect balance than just winning championships,” feels Dr. Vishwanath. He revealed that Ishwar is going to inaugurate the World Yoga Championship to be held at Italy in July but cannot participate because of his age. He said that he will also be competing by virtue of winning the silver medal representing the UK.
Dr. Vishwanath and his wife Dr. Mamatha Vishwanath are both Radiologists and have a daughter Indira, who is four- years-old. Ishwar is the grandson of late K.S. Nanjundeshwar of the well-known Rekha Studio on Dhanvantri Road.
Let us all hope that the Indian-origin child prodigy continues to strike perfect poise and balance and brings glory to the Indian community the world over.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / June 05th, 2016
D. Vijeth, R. Madhusudhan, V. Raghunandan, A.M. Anirudha, B.R. Srinidhi Urs & S. Vinu
Mysuru :
Six of the cricket umpires from Mysuru have made the KSCA Mysuru Zone proud by qualifying as BCCI Level-1 Umpires. The Board of Control of Cricket India (BCCI) had recently conducted the examination for the same at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Among those who qualified as BCCI Level-1 Umpires include D. Vijeth (RBNCC), R. Madhusudhan (Saraswathipuram CC), V. Raghunandan (Young Cricketers), B.R. Srinidhi Urs (Yuvaraja’s College), S. Vinu (FUCC), A.M. Aniruddha (RBNCC), according to a press release from KSCA Mysuru Zone Convenor S. Balachandar.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / June 01st, 2016
