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India finishes second to Singapore

By Our Sports Reporter

KOLKATA, APRIL 8. India came up with best performance in an international event winning the second position in the team championship with three golds, two silvers and one bronze to remain close behind champion Singapore in the second Commonwealth bodybuilding meet here at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here on Monday.

India, which could only win one silver in the last meet at Malaysia in 1999, came up with a far superior performance and tied the champion winning three golds. Singapore won an extra silver and a bronze than India to better its points and steal the march over India. Singapore tallied 99 points, India netted 86 points while Malaysia took the third spot with 25 points.

The best came from the recently crowned National `champion of champions' N. Sanayaima Singh who outshone all in the light middle weight category. This was the best by the Indian contingent as Xavier Joseph took the silver to remain behind Singh and realise the top two spots for the country.

The host started with a bang as T.V. Pauly put up a brilliant show of his muscularity to walk away with the gold in the fly weight category.

Continuing with the grand beginning Dinesh Singh annexed the gold in the bantam weight category beating the five-time Asian champion Ibrahim Sihat of Singapore to the second place. The light weight and welter weight gold went to the former world champion Sazali Samad of Malaysia and Simon Chua of Singapore, respectively.

India had to be satisfied with a bronze and a silver in these two categories as Bhakta Kumar and E.G. Baiju finished second and third in the three-way contest.# Going to the higher weights' category, India's Javed Khan came last in the middle weight while the host did not put any participant in the light heavy weight category.

The results: Fly weight (60kg): 1. T.V. Pauly (Ind), 2. Mohammad Hanafi (Singapore), 3. Vincent N.G. (Sing).

Bantam Weight (65kg): 1. Dinesh Singh (Ind), 2. Ibrahim Sihat (Sing), 3. Nihad Rashid (Maldives).

Light weight (70kg): 1. Sazali Samad (Malaysia), 2. Amir Zainal (Sing), 3. Bhakta Kumar (Ind).

Welter weight (75kg): 1. Simon Chua (Sing), 2. E.G. Baiju (Ind), 3. Jack Madanamoothoo (Mauritius).

Light Middle Weight (80kg): N. Sanayaima Singh (Ind), 2. Xavier Joseph (Ind), 3. Jose Lin (Sing).

Middle weight (85kg): C.J. Phan (Sing), 2. Othoman Yahya (Mal), 3. Regie Delorie (Seyscheles).

Light heavy weight (90kg): 1. Tong Chin Wee (Sing), 2. Valentine (Sey), 3. Dominique Mongelaro (Mau).

Team championships: 1. Singapore 99 points, 2. India 86 points, 3. Malaysia 25 points.

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