CARROM AROUND WORLD

(All Carrom Federations and friends are requested to send their reports for this page. We are waiting,)

Carrom activities in

India - Germany - Poland - U.S.A. - Sri Lanka- Italy - UK - Sri Lanka, Germany - Switzerland - Pakistan - Poland - Sri Lanka - Bangladesh - Malaysia - Qatar - France - Czech Republic -

(For details see below)

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Delhi State Championship

SAEED AND BHARTI ANNEX CARROM TITLE

Mohd. Saeed of Magic Mind Carrom Carrom Club has won Delhi State Carrom Championship here at Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi defeating his teammate J. Zahid in a nail biting final Match 17-23, 25-01, 21-11. Third Position Secured by Mohd. Waseem (Manzar) In women singles Bharti Narayan (LIC) has defeated Parvesh Thakur (LIC) in a one sided final Match 25-06, 25-04. Third Position secured by Meena Bhagchandani (DDA)

Other Results:

Winners Runner up Third

Boys Singles: Mohd. Danish (GC) Zain Ameen (Choice) Kamran (Friends)

Sub Jr. Boys Singles: Himanshu Gupta (Bal Bharti) Saksham Aggarwal (BB) Mudit Mahajan (BB)

Cadet Boys Singles: Vaibhav Sahni (Bal Bharti) Vedant Sachdeva (BB) Parth Jain (SPC)

Girls Singles: Abhigya Rawat (Nadeem) Abidha Rawat (Nadeem) Neha Sharan (Lords)

Sub Jr. Girls : Abhigya Rawat (Nadeem) Abidha Rawat (Nadeem) Megha Sahni (BB)

Cadet Girls Singles: Kushi Rawat (Bal Bharti) Ishika Aggarwal (BB) Manvi Naugain (FS)

Veteran Singles Men: Nawabuddin (GC) Mohd. Shamim (GC) Saleem Yusufi (MM)

Dr. S.P. Bansal, Commissioner (Planning ) Delhi Development Authority gave away the prizes to the Winners.

Shri R.K. Singh, Chairman, Shiv Naresh Sports was also present on the occasion.

V.D. Narayan

Hony. General Secretary

Delhi Carrom Association

9971859696

delhicarromvdn@gmail.com

Indo German Carrom Test Series -

Berlin -

17th and 18th September 2011 -

India won the 2011 5th Test match Series against Germany in Berlin.

In Round one Yogesh Pardeshi beat Tobias Krueger with 2:0. First game 25:16 and second game 25:05. Prakash Gaikwad beat Peter Boecker with 2:1. Peter defeated Prakash in the first game with score 25:20. The second and third game was won by Prakash with 25:02 and 25:01.

In the second round it was almost one sided affair. Yogesh Pardeshi beat Peter 25:01 and 25:03 while Prakash won against Tobias 25:03 and 25:02. During the matches Yogesh Pardeshi made two White Slam.

The small Indian Team is on a short European Tour for promotion of Carrom. On 19th and 20th September it will be playing Matches in Warsaw, Poland, before going to Czech Republic and Switzerland. In Zurich they will be playing on 23rd and 24th September against Swiss National Team.

Open German Campionship Singles & Doubles 2011
25th Anniversary of the Foundation of German Carrom Federation

(ICF- Media Commission)

Based on the Report of the G.C.F. President J. Kijanski

Berlin, September 27, 2011,

German city Darmstadt was the scene of the third Tournament of the Open German Championship for singles and Doubles Championship as well as the 25th year anniversary celebration of the German Carrom Federation on this weekend (24th &
25th September 2011). Whie the Carrom Club Darmstadt also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its foundation.

At the end of the Singles Championship Torunament, which was participated by about fifty players from all parts of Germany on Saturday, 24th September, the players assembled at the restaurant "Baobab" to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of their national federation GCF (DCV) and the local Carrom association CCD.

G.C.F. President Joerg Kijanski greeted the guests and expressed happiness over the big resonance. On this occasion Joerg Kijanski presented on behalf of the G.C.F. a certificate of '25 Years membership in G.C.F'. to the Carrom Association CCD as well as a Certificate of Honour to president of E.C.C. and I.C.F. Arif Naqvi for his special envolvement, without which Carrom could not have come so into being in Germany.
This was confirmed by loud and non stop applause of the guests.

Gunter Seibert, President CCD, gave a short account of the background of the formation of his association. After that Arif Naqvi conveyed the greetings of the
European Carrom Confederation and the International Carrom Federation. He thanked
Gunter Seibert and the Board of Management of the German Carrom Federation under
the leadership of Joerg Kijanski and Dirk Polchow for their work in promoting Carrom and wished them much success in future.
At the end the guests took part in a buffet and saw the colour slides prepared by Stefan Besser on the early years of Carrom in Germany.

During the Open German Championship Tournament for Singles, which continued the whole day, Peter Boecker had proved his supremacy winning all rounds of the tournament, held on Swiss System.
After seven rounds the position of the first five was as following:
1. Peter Boecker    14 points
2. Dirk Polchow    12 points
3. Wolfgang Peter   11 point
4. Johannes Joerg   11 points
5. Ralf Klose       10 points

In a one sided final match Peter beat Dirk by 25 : 0

At the Open German Championship - Doubles, which was held on the following day, Sunday 25th September, the final was won by Peter Boecker and Tobias Krueger, who defeated Dirk Polchow and Johannes Joerg by a clear margin of 25:07.
The third place went to Anthony Clement and Kangan Balendran. The fourth position went to Ralf Klose and Nick Humbert. While Mark-Mueller-Linow and Wolfgang Peter came on 5th place.

Peter Boecker and Tobias Krueger defeated Dirk Polchow in final with 25:0

ICF-Media Commission

CARROM OFFICIALLY IN INDIAN SCHOOLS

Dear Mr. Arif Naqvi,

I am happy to inform you that due to vidorous efforts made by President and General Secretary of All India Carrom Federation Carrom has been included in the activities of School Games Federtion of India. This will spread the game as competitive levels in more than 2 lacs school affiliated to all State Governments of India. Chhattisgarh Government has kindly accepted to host the next National of SGFI at Raipur (Chhattisgarh) in India. This big achievements of All India Carrom Federation after the inclusion of Sports activities in 7000 Schools affiliated to CBSE Schools. The efforts for bringing the game of Carrom in Future prospects should be commended and noted by the International Federation. International Carrom Federation may note that an International School Boys Tournament/Competition is also held and ICF may try to get this game included in this event also. Every affiliated Nation should also try to get the Carrom included in Schools' Competition in their country. AICF is confident that this step will lead the game spread in Millions children of India.

M. Sharan

Asstt. Secfretary

All India Carrom Federation

First White Slam in Poland

During the interesitng Carrom Championship in Warsaw on 21.05.2011 the FIRST WHITE SLAM OF POLAND was scored by Sylwester Pogorzelski.

The Championship was won by Cornel D'Silva from Polish city Łódź who defeated Nithesh Singha in final.

go to www.carrom.com.pl for detiles

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11^th North Zone Carrom Championship

26-28, May 2011

Mohd. Zahid (Delhi) and Farheen (Chandigarh) Clinched North Zone Carrom Title

Chandigarh, May 2011 on the concluding day of 11^th North Zone Carrom Championship 2011 here at St. Stephen School, Chandigarh.

Mohd. Zahid (Delhi) bt. Jameel Ahmed(Delhi) -17-8, 25-00 in the Men singles title of the North Zone Carrom Championship beating his team mate in the keenly contested Final Match.

In Women Singles also the fight for top position was between players of Chandigarh namely Farheen bt. Tuba – 25-4, 17-13.

In Jr. Girls Singles Final: Priya Sharma(Chd) bt. Nidhi Gupta 10-12,19-4,17-00

In Boys Singles Final: Mohd. Arish (Chd) bt. Ankit (Har)-21-07, 21-11.

Other results:

Men’s Semi Final: Jammel Ahmed, Delhi bt. Asaif Iqbal, Chd-25-8, 13-15, 25-16. Mohd. Zahid (Delhi) bt Mohd. Shadab (Delhi)-15-19, 23-18, 19-10

Women’s Semi Final: Farheen(Chd) bt. Aakansha (Chd)-15-9, 23-05, Tuba (Chd) bt. Anjali (Chd) 18-7, 21-12

Boy’s Junior (Semi Final) Ankit (Haryana) bt. Muneeb Amin(Delhi)-15-13, 19-13. Mohd. Arish (Chd) bt. Tasavar Ali (Chd)-21-00, 21-04

Girls Junior (Semi Final): Priya Sharma (Chd) bt. Arpita Nagar (Hary) Chd)21-00, 17-04, Nidhi Gupta (Chd) bt. Manu Gupta (Chd) 15-13,12-09

Ranking of the tournament is as under:

Girls Junior:

1. Priya Sharma (Chd)

2. Nidhi Gupta (Chd)

3. Manu Gupta (Chd)

4. Arpita Nagar (Hry)

Boys junior:

1. Mohd. Arish (Chd)

2. Ankit (Hry)

3. Muneeb Amin (Delhi)

4. Tasavar Ali (Chd)

Women’s

1. Farheen (Chd)

2. Tuba (Chd)

3. Anjali (Chd)

4. Aakansha (Chd)

5. Gulshan (Chd)

6. Kudrat (Chd)

7. Susheela (Chd)

8. Insha Afzal Bhatt (J&K)

Men’s Singles

1. Jahid (Delhi)

2. Jameel Ahmed (Delhi)

3. Asif Iqbal(Chd)

4. Mohd. Shadab(Delhi)

5. Mod. Talib (Chd)

6. Adeel Khan (Delhi)

7. Mohd. Hassan (Chd)

8. Mohd. Wasim (Delhi)

Shri S.K. Sharma, Secretary General, International Carrom Federation and Shri Kuldeep Singh, a famous architect of Chandigarh graced the occasion as Guest of Honour. While giving the prizes to the winners the Global head of this game Shri Sharma gave some important information about the game of carrom – Indian Carrom Team is participating in the 15^th SAARC Countries Carrom Championship and the 4^th Asian Carrom Championship being held in Maldives from 28^th May to 4^th june 2011. He said that Indian players who are world champions would once again lift all the titles of both the championships. He also stated that CBSE has included the game of carrom in their sports activity calendar and stated that it is also being recognized by School Games Federation of india and kendriya Vidyalaya. He has also appreciated the performance of players of Delhi, Chandigarh and Haryana and gave his good wishes to the North Zone Carrom Team for Inter Zonal Carrom Championship being organized at Guntur (AP) in July 2011.

Shri V.D. Narayan, Director of the Championship also appreciated the efforts of Chandigarh Carrom Association led by Shri Mahesh Sekhri, General Secretary of the Association. He has announced the ranking of the Zone for the year 2011-12

Shri Mahesh Sekhri, Organising Secretary of the Championship gave a detailed report of the Championship and expressed thanks on behalf of CCA to the School management of St. Stephen School for their support in organizing the event and all others who have extended their support directly or indirectly in organizing the event.

During the Closing Ceremony the national champions from Chandigarh namely Farheen, Tuba, Mohd. Hassan and Mohd. Talib were awarded cash prize of Rs. 5001/- each by the St. Stephen School Chandigarh.

Carrom is officially allowed in Inter School Sports & Games Competitions in 7000 Schools in India and Indian schools in Bahrain, Dubai etc.

A revolutionary achievement.

Congratulations by ICF

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MUKTESHWARI SHARAN <sharanmlords@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: Letter of Chairman CBSE
To: arif_naqvi2002@yahoo.com, arif naqvi <naqviarif@yahoo.com>

Dear Mr. Naqvi,

This will enable us to streamline students of 7000 Schools in India and abroad ie. Baharin, Dubai and other countries to enter.You may congratulate our President and General Secretary for this achievemdents. I amy recall that this was initiated during your last visit. Sir kindly send us the list of affiliated National Carrom Federations affiliated to International Federation so that I can be able to transmit the information to the Government.

M. Sharan

Asstt. Secretary

3rd WorldCup 2010

Results

Men's Singles:
Winner
Yogesh Pardeshi
Second
S. Radhakrishnan
Third
Prakash Gaikwad
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Women's Single
Winner: Ila Wazhaki
Second: Kavita Somanchi
Third: P.G. Revathy

Men's Doubles
Winner: Prakash Gaikwad & B. Radhakrishnan
Second: Yogesh Pardeshi & Zaheer Pasha
Third: Sarvan Chandrababu & Neil Khatu
Women's Doubles
Winner: Ilavazhaki & P.G. Revathy
Second: Rashmi Kumari & Kavita Somanchi
Third: Aishath Fainaz & Aminath Vishama

Swiss League
Winner: Yogesh Pardeshi
Second: Ilavazhaki
Third: Prakash Gaikwad

US Open
Winner: Zaheer Pasha
Second: Yogesh Pardeshi

SAARC CARROMCHAMPIONSHIP

COLOMBO: 31 JULY: Indian carrom players claimed seven Gold Medals, two Silver Medals and one Bronze Medal in the 14^th SAARC Countries Carrom Championship concluded at Hotel Galadari, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Five countries i.e. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives and Bangladesh participated in three days championship. Nepal could not make it at the last minute. Three men and three women players from each country participated in seven different events of the SAARC Championship.

Yogesh Pardeshi of India, who is also the current World Champion, annexed Men Singles title defeating B. Radhakrishnan of India in straight games 25-16, 25-3. Prakash Gaikwad of India secured third position defeating Sherifddin of Sri Lanka easily 25-5, 25-4. In the semi-finals, Radhakrishnan overcame Prakash Gaikwad 25-23, 25-10 while Yogesh prevailed over Sherifddin 25-6, 25-2. Defending champion, Hidayat Ansari of India could not make it to the Indian team.

Current Women World Champion & defending champion, I. Ilavazhaki claimed Women Singles title defeating Kavita Somanchi of India in a well contested match 25-24, 25-11. Roshita Joseph of Sri Lanka secured third position defeating Aisath Fainaz of Maldives 25-19, 25-00. Both Indian players overpowered their opponents very easily in the Semi-finals. Kavita beat Fainaz 25-4, 25-0 and Ilavazhaki beat Rosita 25-1, 25-0.

In Men Doubles event, defending champion pair from India, Yogesh Pardeshi & B. Radhakrishnan defeated their traditional rivals from Sri Lanka, Chamil Cooray and Nishant Fernando 25-11, 25-14. Third position was claimed by Bangladesh pair of Mohd Ali & Hafizur Rahmandefeating Maldives pair of Neesham and Hamid 25-24, 9-25, 25-24. Indian pair of I. Ilavazhaki and Rashmi Kumari, who was defending champion, won Women Doubles title when they defeated Sri Lankan pair of Roshita and Chalani 25-5, 25-4. Aishath Fainaz & Vishama of Maldives secured third position.

Indian pair of Prakash Gaikwad & Kavita Somanchi claimed Gold Medal in Mixed Doubles event defeating Sri Lankan pair of Sherifddin & Madushika 25-13, 25-7. Maldives pair of Mohd. Shafee & Aminath Nima won Bronze Medal defeating K.G.H. Kabir & Farzana Akhtar of Bangladesh 9-25, 25-23, 25-21.

India won both Men and Women Team events. Bangladesh surprised Sri Lanka to win the Silver Medal in the Men Team event. Sri Lanka and Maldives claimed Silver and Bronze Medals respectively in the Women team event. Prakash Gaikwad scored six Slams while Yogesh Pardeshi scored five Slams in the Championship.

The 14^th SAARC Championship was inaugurated by C.B. Rattanaike, Sports Minister of Sri Lanka in a colourful function. He played the first knock of the Championship as well. The prizes were given away by Secretary (Sports), Government of Sri Lanka; First Secretary, Indian High Commission, R.M. Srivastava; Member of Parliament of Bangladesh, Zunaid Ahmed Palak; Secretary General, International Carrom Federation, S.K. Sharma and President, Asian Carrom Confederation, Zahir Naseer. Dr. Zahir Naseer presented cash awards to all players who scored slams and the best player from each country.

Indian Team was congratulated by Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, M.S. Dhoni, Virender Sehwagand Rahul Dravid who were present in Colombo for the Indo-Sri Lanka Cricket Test Series. $C:\Documents and Settings\pigiron\Desktop\sks2\SK Sign2.tif$

S.K. Sharma

Thrilling matches at the 14th Carrom Euro Cup in Rome, Italy.

(Report by ICF Media Commission)

The 14th Carrom Euro cup held from 11th to 13th June in Rome ended on Sunday by the Prize Distribution Ceremony, in which ECC president Arif Naqvi announced that the 15th Euro Cup has been alloted by the ECC to France.

About one hundred Carrom players from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Slovania, Switzerland and United Kingdom participated in this year's Euro Cup, which was held in three disciplines: Singles, Doubles and Team Event.

The team from Czech Republic could not attend at the last minute due to the death of the father of an important member

of the team.

the 14th Euro Cup was opened on Thursday evening by Arif Naqvi, President of European Carrom Confederation and ICF,

who appreciated that the Carrom Euro Cup has been held every year without any interval and has contributed to its popularity and rise of the standard. He said that the 14th Euro Cup should be taken as a rehersal for the 3rd World Cup which would be taking place from 27th September to 1st October in Richmond, Virginia USA. Naqvi appreciated the dedicated hard work done by Elisa Martinelli and other members of the Italian Carrom Federation to make the event successful.

The teams Championship conducted on first day, 11th June, was won by the UK with an edge of only one point against Germany. Switzerland came on third place.

The points are as following:

1. UK 25 points

2. Germany 24 points

3. Switzerland 15 points

4. France 14 points

5. Italy 12 points

6. Poland 0 points

Simultaneously the doubles Campionship was conducted on the same day which was won by Italy's Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca agians Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois of France, with 25 to 24 . Both sides gave a excellent performance. At one point the score in the final game was 24 to 24. Leu Jonathan and Pierre Fabian of France came on third place.

The Singles Event , which was conducted on 12th and 13th June, was won by Karnal Abedin of UK for the third consecutive time. After the 11 round of matches the final was held between Karnal Abedin of UK and Pierre Dubois of France. While Karnal was leading clearly after 11 rounds with 20 points in hand Pierre Dubois of France, Peter Boecker of Germany and Abdul Malik of UK followed him with 18 points each, while Pierre had edge with Bucholz points.

The final between Karnal Abedin and Pierre Dubois was extremely exiting. While Karnal won the first game clearly, Pierre gave him a very good fight in the second game, winning the game clearly. The third game was however dominated by Karnal Abeding and he won the match and the trophy for the third consecutive time. Peter Boecker of Germany came on the third place.

The meeting of the General Council of the European Carrom Confederation was also held during the Euro Cup in Rome. It was attended by the representatives of France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Slovania (as guest), Switzerland and United Kingdom. The 15th Euro Cup was alotted to France and is to be held near Paris.

Poland's Paulina Nowakowska and UK's Nazrul Islam were included in the ECC General Council as two new Vice Presidents.

The 14th Euro Cup was concluded with prize distribution ceremny and a closing speech of the ECC President Arif Naqvi

at a restaurant rear the sea side of Rome. Naqvi asked the players to forward to 3rd. World Cup (2010) in USA, while Elisa Martinelly thanked on behalf of the italian federation to all players and sponsors for the coperation.

Presidents.

The present Office Bearers of the ECC are as following:

President: Arif Naqvi (Germany)

Vice Presidents: Paulina Nowakowska (Poland)

Nazrul Islam (UK)

Secretry General: Elisa Martinelli (Italy)

Treasurer: Kurt Scherrer (Switzerland)

!4th Carrom Euro Cup Results

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Singles Event: ( 91 player )

Winner: Karnal Abedin (UK)

2nd: Pierre Dubois (France)

3rd.: Peter Boecker (Germany)

Doubles Event:

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Winner: Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca (Italy)

2nd: Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois (France)

3rd.: Leau Jonathan and Fabian Pereira (France)

Teams Event

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1. UK

2. Germany

3. Switzerland

4. France

5. Italy

6. Poland

Arif Naqvi

Chairman

ICF Media Commission

UKCF RANKING AFTER 3 RANKING TOURNAMENTS
2010

1. Karnal Abdin
2. Nazrul Islam
3. Murshad Khan
4. Abdul Malik
5. Abdul Khan
6. Ish Gupta
7.Muhiuddin Ahmed
8.Ala Mia
9.Altaf Hussain
10. Abdul Mumit
11. Shomsu Miah
12. Iqbal Hussain
13. Shuab Ahmed
14. Sunahar Ali
15. Abdul Wahid
16. Abdur Rahman Khan
17. Abdul Momin
18. Abdul Ahad
19. Sharif Miah
20. Syed Jalal Ahmed
21. Anhar Ali
22. Nurul Amin
23. Abdus Shahid
24. Mukit Hussain
25. Nurul Islam
26. Shakil Ahmed
27. Tufail Malik
28. Maruf
29. Azir Uddin