Asian Games 2006, Doha (Dec 1-15)

Post by **jayakris** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:23 am

Time to start the thread ..

The draw for football was announced last week. India is in group D of 6 groups of 4 .. Iran, HongKong, Maldives are the others in the group. I assume the 6 group winners and 2 of the second plce teams ill move to the QF after 3 pool matches for each team.

In Kabaddi, India/Japan/Nepal/Iran in group A and Bangladesh/Pakistan/SriLanka/Thailand in the other..

In men's voilleyball, India and Thailand are the only two teams seeded directly into two 5-team final groups. India is in group-A, awaiting the 4 qualifiers from the round 1 where 13 teams play in 4 groups to decide 8 qualifiers to the final pool round ..

In men's basketball, India has to play a round 1 to qualify among 4 qualifiers in the 2 final groups of 6 each .. India is in a group with Macau and Bahrain, and we will need to win that group to qualify to a final group-A with QAT, KOR, JOR, IRI and another qualifier.

In women's basketball, India is in group-A with CHN, JPN, Lebnon - 2 groups there and top two advance to semifinal.

In men's handball, India is in group A with Bahrain, QAT and Macau -- 4 groups of 4 teams each.

In women's handball, we are in group A with KAZ, CHN, UZB .. Two groups of 4 teams each.

India is in all 6 events (team, regu and doubles) of both men's and women's sepaktakraw.

Other team games' draws awaited..

Jay

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:21 pm

Following were the Indian medalists at 2002 Games (from rediff) :-

http://in.rediff.com/sports/ag/indmed.htm

Now we can start discussing our chances this year as compared to last games.

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:20 am

Archery squad is declared after recurve selection trials at Jamshedpur ... The lone surprise was junior archer Punya Prabha of Uttar Pradesh.

Recurve -

Men - Mangal Singh Champia, Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Vishwash.

Women - Chekrovolu Swuro, Dola Banerjee, Punya Prabha and Reena Kumari.

Jaydeep.

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:24 am

After the Asian Games snooker trials tournament in Mumbai, the 4 men Snooker squad for Doha Asiad is declared.

Ranking r as per their performance in trials.
1. Pankaj Advani
2. Yasin Merchant
3. Manan Chandra
4. Aditya Mehta

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:01 pm

Chess will make it's debut in this Asian Games as a medal sport.

3 gold medals will be at stake in chess with compettions being held for Individual rapid events for Men & Women & mixed team event ( which will include 3 players in each side, 2 men & 1 women.) . Mixed team event will be played using regular time control.

A player is required to participate in both rapid & mixed team events. As a result of this, Vishwanathan Anand has withdrawn as he does not want to play in regular team event.
India is likely to be representated by K.Sasaikaran, P. Harikrishna & Koneru Hampi. Good chance for India to pick up additional medals for India here in spite of Anand's absense.

suresh · Post by **suresh** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:28 am

Toss up between snooker and billiards for Advani

http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/13/stories ... 991800.htm

Pankaj Advani has qualified to represent India in both snooker and billiards at the Doha Asiad.
Now he is being asked to choose one event. I can't make up my mind whether this is a good idea
or not.

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:20 pm

And Pankaj selected Billiards for 'stupid' rule that the Billiards and Snooker Federation of India had put in place a 'one man-one discipline' rule.

Advani to play in billiards at Doha Asian Games

Jaydeep.

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:04 am

As expected Anand will not take part in Asian Games :-

http://sport.indiatimes.com/Anand_to_sk ... 007175.cms

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:13 am

Team for cue sports -

Billiards - Ashok Shandilya, Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi.

Snooker - Yasin Merchant, Manan Chandra, Aditya Mehta and Roopesh Shah.

8-ball pool - Dharminder Lilly, Alok Kumar, Anuja Thakur and M. Chitra.

9-ball pool - Sunith Talwar, Md. Asim, Vidhya Pillai and Minal Thakur.

3-cushion carom - K. Ranjan and B. Bhaskar.

Jaydeep.

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:18 am

Shooting squad -

Men
Pistol - Samaresh Jung, Bapu Vanzare, Zakir Khan, Pemba Tamang, Vijay Kumar, Rahul Panwar, Jaspal Rana, Ronak Pandit and Deepak Sharma.

Rifle - Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, P.T. Raghunath, Sanjeev Rajput, Imran Hassan Khan, Suresh Singh Rathore and Sushil Ghaley.

Shotgun
Trap - Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Mansher Singh and Anwer Sultan
Doubletrap - Lt. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Ronjan Sodhi and Vikram Bhatnagar
Skeet - A.D. Peoples, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Man Singh.

Women
Pistol - Sonia Rai, Harveen Srao and Shweta Choudhary.

Rifle Tejaswini Sawant, Suma Shirur, Avneet Kaur Sidhu, Deepali Deshpande and Anjali Bhagwat.

Coaches - Prof. Sunny Thomas, Laszlo Szucsak, Gyorik Csaba, D.V.S. Rao, Deep Bhatia, Syed Wajid Ali, P. S. Sodhi
Manager - Jagjit Singh
Armourer - D.K. Shukla.

Jaydeep.

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:54 pm

Mens hockey :-

Groupings :-

Group A : Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong.

Group B: India , Korea , China, Oman and Bangladesh

India's schedule :-

Dec 4 - India v Bangladesh
Dec 5 - India v China
Dec 8 - India v Oman
Dec 10 -India v South Korea

Semi finals will be on December 12 & finals on December 14.

Importantly, the first 2 teams will be automatic continental qualifiers for Beijing Olympics instead of 1 last time.

Semi final look easy enough for India on paper . Then , they should ensure to beat whoever they meet in semis ( Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan ) to ensure olympic qualification.

I guess it will be long process if they are not able to qualify here.

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:02 am

Indian team for Cuesports :-

Billiards: Singles: Ashok Shandilya and Pankaj Advani;
Doubles: Ashok Shandilya and Geet Sethi;
Snooker: Singles: Yasin Merchant and Manan Chandra;
Doubles: Merchant and Chandra; Team: Merchant, Aditya Mehta and Rupesh Shah.
8-ball pool: Dharmender Lily and Alok Kumar;
9-ball pool: Sumit Talwar and Mohammed Asim; Carom: Ranjan Kosaraju and B. Bhaskar.

Women: 8-ball pool: Anuja Thakur and M. Chitra;
9-ball pool: Vidya Pillai and Meenal Thakur

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:12 pm

Badminton Squad for Asian Games -

Men
Chetan Anand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhatt, P. Kashyap, Rupesh Kumar, V. Diju and J.B.S. Vidhyadhar.

Women
Saina Nehwal and Trupti Murgunde.

S_K_S · Post by **S_K_S** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:12 pm

jaydeep wrote: Team for cue sports -
3-cushion carom - K. Ranjan and B. Bhaskar.

Jaydeep.

What's 3 cushion carom? And how can carom be a cue sport?

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:55 am

S_K_S wrote:What's 3 cushion carom? And how can carom be a cue sport?

In this carom billiards game there are no pockets on this type of billiard table ... The idea is to try to use the white cue ball to hit the other two ... But what makes this interesting is that there is one more rule: Your cue ball must hit at least 3 cushions before striking the last ball.

Little Basic about this game

Jaydeep.

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