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Manipuris rejoice athletes' Arjuna glory
Times of India | TNN | Jul 26, 2011, 12.09AM IST
Sports lovers in Manipur are on cloud nine with two athletes from the state being recommended for this year's prestigious Arjuna Award. On Friday, the award committee recommended pugilist Mayengbam Suranjoy and Wushu player W Sandhyarai Devi's named for the award.
This comes at a time when top woman weightlifter, Renubala Chanu, decidingto return the gold medal that she won in the Commonwealth Games last year to the sports minister. Renubala, who won a gold in the 58kg category in the CWG, said she was hurt at not being named for the Arjuna Awards after 11 years at the top level and winning medals at the international level.
A resident of Uchiwa Awang Leikai village in Imphal West, Suranjoy has bagged a number of laurels, including gold in last year's Delhi Commonwealth Games, while Sandhyarani, has bagged silver in the women's Sanshou 60kg category at the 16 Asiad in China's Ghanzhou city.
Five-time world women boxing champion MC Mary Kom was one of the members of the awards' selection panel, which sprint legend PT Usha headed.
Country's ace archer Laishram Bombayla Devi, who has qualified for the ensuing London Olympics, is the daughter of Manglem.
Known as the country's mini-powerhouse of sports, Manipur has also produced over nine Olympians and two Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees, including Mary Kom and hordes of international players.
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