Date:01/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/01/stories/2008070152512000.htm

Sport - Boxing

Oken Singh in final

BANGALORE: Oken Singh outpunched Chandra in the semifinal of the bantam weight class of the seventh State senior and sub-junior boxing tournament at the Sree Kanteerva Stadium. The referee stopped the contest in the first round as Oken landed a flurry of punches on the hapless Chandra.

The results: Seniors: Feather wt: Sarath bt Arjun Rao; Vincent Paul bt Sunil; Light welter: Syed Mansoor bt HK Sharma (RSC, Ist round); Satish Kumar bt Ravi Kumar (RSC, Ist Round). Semifinals: Bantam wt: Oken Singh bt Chandra (RSC, Ist round); Prashanth bt Fazil; Light wt: Anand bt Vasanth Kumar; Light welter: Devendar bt Anil Kumar; Welter wt: Harish bt Sanyasi rao; Dharamveer bt Somashekar.

Middle wt: Prashanth Patil bt Abrar Ahmed; Parviz Ahmed bt Jagadish.

Lightheavy wt: Satish bt S Singh. Heavy wt: Ravindra bt K.M. Ganesh.

Sub-Juniors: 30 to 32 kgs: Clinton bt Vishal; 40-42 kgs: Ankitehanrasia bt Abhijeet; Amal Singh bt C Prajwal; 46-48: PL Prasad bt Madhusudhan; Parmesh bt Sunil; 48-50: Kishore Kumar bt Subnham; 50-52: Mosam Kumar bt Rahul Bohra; 54-57: Mohammed Rahman bt M Gokul; Satish Kumar bt Praveen Kumar.

Kho-kho tournament

The Mysore District Kho-Kho Association will conduct a district-level tournament for High and Middle School boys and girls and PU College boys from July 16 to at the University grounds in Mysore. Call Sundar at 93416 25490.