Shuttler Madhumita Bisht wins lifetime achievement award
April 24th, 2010 - 12:09 am ICT by IANSKolkata, April 23 (IANS) Eight-time national badminton champion Madhumita Bisht was given the lifetime achievement award for her contribution to the game by the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club during its annual awards function here Friday.
Pankaj Advani, who won the world professional billiards champion last year, was adjudged the best sportsperson of 2009 while the former world youth (under-12) chess champion Sayantan Das was given the best junior sportsperson of the year award.
The others were state awardees.
The other awardees (in state category):
Football - Denson Devadas; Cricket - Manoj Tiwary; Tennis - Rupesh Roy;
Table Tennis - Soumyajit Ghosh; Swimming - Bikram Mondal; Badminton - Sheshadri Sanyal; Basketball- Satyendra Singh; Kabaddi - Abdus Salam Gazi;
Hockey - Leo Bilung; Gymnastics - Gobinda Pramanik;
Athletics (men) - Sheikh Mortaza; Athletics (women) - Jhuma Khatun;; Chess - Saptarshi Roy Choudhury.
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