NAIR, Vadodara Hosted 50Th All India Railway Cue Sports Championship

NAIR, Vadodara hosted 50th All India Railway Cue Sports Championship

National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR), Lalbaug, Vadodara hosted the 50th All India Railway Cue Sports Championship, for the first time, from 17th July to 27th July, 2017, with much sporting fervour. This was the Golden Jubilee championship and celebration of the event. The 11-day marathon event was inaugurated by Shri Rajiv Gupta, Director General of the academy on 17th July, 2017.

Around 80 eminent players of international and national repute, from different parts of India, took part in the prestigious sports event. They participated in Billiards, Snooker, Six-Red Snooker and 9 Ball Pool events supervised by a 13 observer-cum-referee team.

Star players like, Ashok Shandilya, World Billiards Champion (twice), Raftab Habib, Asian Games Snooker Gold medallist, Dilip Kumar, Peter Paul, Kamal Chawla, Sidharth Parekh, Waseem Ahmed,Faisal Khan, Malkeet Singh, besides many other international level players, participated in the championship.

South Central Railway (SCR) made a huge wave, when they swept the medals tally. They won four Gold and two Silver medals.Shri Rajeev Gupta, Director General of the academy (NAIR) distributed awards to the medal winners in a glittering ceremony held on 27th July, 2017.

Results (Full List) of all Individual and Team events are as below:

Results of Individual Events.
Sl.No. / Events / Ranks / Names of Winners and Railway
1 / Billiards / 1st / L. Durgaprasad -SCR
IInd / Kamal Chawla.- WCR
2 / Snooker 15 Red / 1st / Laxman Rawat - WR
IInd / Siddarth Parikh- CR
3 / Snooker 6 Red / 1st / faizal khan -CR
IInd / MALKEET -CR
4 / Pool 9 Ball. / 1st / E Pandu Rangaiah - SCR
IInd / Rafath Habib – SR.
Results of Team Events.
Billiards.
Gold. / Silver. / Bronze.
Central Railway. / South Central Railway. / Western Railway.
1 / Ashok Shandilya. / 1 / S. Simhachalam. / 1 / Shekhar Surve.
2 / Siddharth Parikh. / 2 / K. Venkatesham. / 2 / Laxman Rawat.
3 / Aditya Agrawal. / 3 / L. Durgaprasad. / 3 / Rovin D'Souza.
4 / Virender Kumar. / 4 / CH Govindaraj Reddy. / 4 / Nikhil Ghadge.
Snooker 15. Red.
Gold. / Silver. / Bronze.
South Central Railway. / South East Railway. / Western Railway.
1 / E. Pandu Rangaiah. / 1 / Neeraj Kumar. / 1 / Shekhar Surve.
2 / K. Srinu. / 2 / Kanna Babu. / 2 / Laxman Rawat.
3 / A. Aravind Kumar. / 3 / Sarfaraj Uddin Sheikh. / 3 / Rovin D'Souza.
4 / L. Durgaprasad. / 4 / Md. Saif Khan. / 4 / Nikhil Ghadge.
Snooker 6. Red.
Gold. / Silver. / Bronze.
South Central Railway. / Southern Railway. / Western Railway.
1 / E. Pandu Rangaiah. / 1 / Rafath Habib / 1 / Shekhar Surve.
2 / K. Srinu. / 2 / S. Dilip Kumar. / 2 / Laxman Rawat.
3 / A. Aravind Kumar. / 3 / G. Peter Paul. / 3 / Rovin D'Souza.
4 / L. Durgaprasad. / 4 / N. Waseem Ahmed. / 4 / Nikhil Ghadge.
Pool 9 Ball.
Gold. / Silver. / Bronze.
South Central Railway. / Western Railway. / Central Railway.
1 / E. Pandu Rangaiah. / 1 / Shekhar Surve. / 1 / R. Girish.
2 / K. Srinu. / 2 / Laxman Rawat. / 2 / Faisal Khan.
3 / A. Aravind Kumar. / 3 / Rovin D'Souza. / 3 / Malkeet Singh.
4 / L. Durgaprasad. / 4 / Nikhil Ghadge. / 4 / Nitesh Madan.

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