Asian School Indoor Rowing Championship to begin from Sept 4 in Kolkata
Kolkata , Sept 1 (IBNS): Nearly 2,00,000 ( two lakh) students from across India and neighbouring Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan are expected to take part in the Asian School Indoor Rowing Championship, which will be inaugurated at Calcutta Rowing Club ( Rabindra Sarobar) from Sept 4.
Briefing the media persons here about the mega sporting event , veteran oarsman and founder of Bengal Water Sports-the organiser of this event ,Shakeel Ahmed said, “Apart from 75,000 students from 100 schools ofWest Bengal, more than one lakh and fifty thousand students from other states of the country including Assam, Bihar , Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab will take part in this meet. “
"Our aim is to reach the very grass roots level by conducting the preliminary rounds in different districts”, Shakeel said adding that “a separate competition would also be held for the specially abled children along with this meet “ .
Giving details of the competition Shakeel Ahmed, who earlier won many international medals for the country, said, “It would be held for three age groups - under 12 , under 15 and under 18 years -bothfor boys and girls. After intra-school competition 18 students - 9boys and 9 girls - would be selected from each school who will then compete in district and thereafter in state level championships"
All the state level, winners, along with competitors from other countries, will join the grand finale to be held at an indoor stadium in the city on Dec 2 next.
“FISA, World Rowing Body, has recognized this event and is likely to send a representative to observe this championship,” Shakeel said.
(Reporting by Manik Banerjee)
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