Rural women sports meet
Sirmaur team lifts overall trophy
Tribune News Service


Overall champions Sirmaur team posing with the deputy commissioner;
and (below) kabaddi final being played between Shimla and Bilaspur on
the final day of the State Women's Rural Sports Festival at Hamirpur
on Tuesday. Tribune photos: Dharam Prakash Gupta


Hamirpur, October 14
The team from Sirmaur district won the overall trophy at the 25th
state rural women's annual sports meet that concluded here today.
Teams from all 12 districts of the state participated in the meet.

Hamirpur DC Abhishek Jain was the chief guest at the concluding
ceremony of the three-days meet in which around 600 players
participated in athletics, table tennis, badminton, basketball,
kabaddi and volleyball events.

Jain said games inculcated the spirit of competition among player. He
said there was a time when it was difficult to adopt sports as a
career in India. However, there were now numerous opportunities in
the field of sports.

He gave away prizes to the winners.

Joint director (sports) Suman Rawat Mehta said the Sports Department
was making efforts to provide the best possible facilities to the
players and they should spend all their energy in excelling in their
fields.

Results: In 100-m race: Pushpa (Hamirpur) 1, Reena (Mandi) 2 and
Rishu (Hamirpur) 3; 200-m race: Jyoti (Hamiprur) 1, Sonika (Hamirpur)
2 and Reena Thakur (Mandi) 3; 400-m race: Jyoti 1, Sonika 2 and Nisha
(Bilaspur) 3; 800-m race: Poonam (Sirmaur) 1, Rumma (Kangra) 2 and
Nivedita (Shimla) 3; 1,500-m race: Rumma 1, Manju (Kangra) 2 and
Poonam (Sirmaur) 3; 3,000-m race: Manju 1, Poonam 2 and Ruma 3; table
tennis: Mandi 1 and Solan 2; badminton: Sirmaur 1 and Mandi 2;
basketball: Sirmaur and Kangra 2; volleyball: Sirmaur 1 and Shimla 2;
kabaddi: Shimla 1 and Bilaspur 2.