Carnival continued to attract spectators as sun brightened open air stadium on penultimate day of 82nd Kila Raipur Sports Festival

Kila Raipur/Ludhiana, February 3, 2018: The carnival continued to attract thousands of spectators as the sun brightened the open air stadium on the penultimate day of the 82nd Kila Raipur Sports Festival here on Saturday.

An almost Full house attendance at the stadium topped the action of the day. Second to none the audience was anticipating much action, and they went home satisfied at the end of the day.

Athletics, hockey, Kabaddi, MRF Tractor Tyre, Elephant and Camel race were the top competitive sports played today.

In Long jump Narinder Singh from Punjab Police leaped a clean 7.15 M to take top honours way ahead of the second placed Gurdas Singh from Ludhiana. Renu Ludhiana took the top honors in women's long jump with a jump of 5.75 m ahead of Jaspreet Kaur Ludhiana.

In 400 m women, Veerpal Kaur from Bhatinda beat Prachi from Patiala and Twinkal Chodhary form Jalandhar even as 400 m men’s honors were won by Arshdeep Singh from Patiala, who finished ahead of Jagmeet Singh of Jalandhar and Amrit Singh from Sangrur.

Bhagwant Memorial Gold Cup Hockey – Men saw some reverting hockey being played, possibly inspired by the ongoing Hockey India League. Grewal Hockey Club Kila Riapur – Saharanpur – 3:2, Rumi beat Jarkhad Hockey Club – 2:1 and Gholia Khurd Beat Ataa Gujri Collage Fatheghar Sahib – 4:2. Await some scintillating display of field hockey tomorrow to find out the eventual winner.

The MRF Tractor tyre rolling event, a brand new event excited many and had as many as 20 entrants. A simple looking task to rolling the Tractor tyre, was indeed a tough one. The finals of the event will be held tomorrow.

Baazigars enthralled the audience once again with amazing feats, like weight lifting with Ear and ones throat to holding a Plough in the mouth and balancing.

If you thought humans can dance well, check out the camel, who would dance to the music and the audience applause and encouragement said it all.

Olympian Gold Medalist 1984 Mr. Alexi Grewal from USA, Partap Singh Bajwa Former President PPCC & Member Rajya Sabha was the chief guest today showed great interest in the sports activities. HE reiterated the commitment to take the message of the festival places and provide better infrastructure to help people in Kila Raipur and around enjoy the Festival at a larger scale.

Athletics Results

Long Jump Men

Narinder Singh, Punjab Police 7.15 M
Gurdas Singh, Ludhiana 7.11 M
Bikramjit Singh Ludhiana 7.11 M

400 m Women

Veerpal Kaur Bathinda 55.56 Sec
Prachi Patiala 56.81 Sec
Twinkal Chodhary, Jalandhar 58.97 Sec

400 M Men

Arshdeep Singh, Patiala 49:11 Sec
Jagmeet Singh Jalandhar 49:12 Sec
Amrit Singh, Sangrur 52:57

Long jump Women

Renu Ludhiana 5.75 M
Jaspreet Kaur Ludhiana 5.14 M
Jaspreet Kaur Bhai Roopa 5.07 M

Shotput men

Navtejdeep Singh, Punjab Police 19.25 Mtr
Naveen, Harayana 18.24 Mtr
Inderjit Singh, Harayana 17.68 Mtr

Shotput Women

Manpreet Kaur 14.39 Mtr
Arashdeep Kaur 10.43 Mtr
Ritu 10.04 M

100 m Old Age men (65-70)

S.P. Sharma, Hosiarpur 14:5 Sec
Manmohan Singh, Canada 14:60 Sec
B.S Virk, Pataiala 14:85 Sec

100 n Old Age men (70-75)

Harbhajan Singh, Samarala 15:51 Sec
Sajan Ram, Dhonala 15:85 Sec
Ajab Singh Fauji, Burji Hari Singh 16:20 Sec

100 m final – Women

Amrit Kaur – Anandpur S.
Jaspreet Kaur – Bhai Rupa
Kulbir Kaur – Bhatinda

Tractor Race

Raja Jaghera – Sonalika
Jaspal Singh Pamaal – Sawraj
Sahibdeep Tajpur – Farm Tractor

Hockey – Men

Grewal Hockey Club Kila Raipur beat Sahranpur – 3:2
Rumi beat Jarkhad Hockey Club– 2:1
Gholiya Khurd Beat Ataa Gujri Collage Shri Fhateghar Sahib – 4:2
Hans Kala Beat Chajali – 2:0

Hockey – Women

Gov. collage for women Ludhiana beat Sangrur – 6:5
Jalaaldiwal beat Khalsa Collage For Women– 4:1

100 meter men

Harjit Singh - 10:50 sec
Ragver Singh –10:82 sec
Maninder Singh –10:86 sec

1500 m Men

Jagdev Singh – Khanna
Varinder Singh – Dehlon
Arshdeep – Patiala

2 km cycle race Girls (U-19)

Pooja – Ludhiana
Gurpreet Kaur – Ludhiana
Neha - Ludhiana

2 Mile cycle Race Men

Pushpinder Singh – Ludhiana
Jashanpreet Singh – Ludhiana
Karanpreet Singh - Ludhiana