Indian Railways participate in CWG in a big way
New Delhi : More than 90 sportspersons from Indian Railways will be participating in the Commonwealth Games 2010 being held in Delhi from Oct 3 -14.
Railways contingent in the Indian squad is perhaps the biggest contingent from a single organization in the country, said the ministry on Friday.
Sportspersons from Indian Railways participating in Athletics in Men Section are : B. G. Nagraj, Ritesh Anand , V.B. Biniesh, Jithin Paul, Bibin Mathew, Sandeep Batham, P. Muthuswamy, Maha Singh, R. Maheshwari, Amarjeet Singh, Hari Shanker Roy, Gajanan Upadhyay, Bhartinder Singh, Joseph Abraham and Ashwani. And in the Women section: S. Geetha, Priya P.K., Arjina Khatun, Ashwini AC, Sini Jose, Priyanka Panwar, Sushma Devi, Jhuma Khatun, O. P. Jaisha , Lalita Babar, Preeja Sreedharan, Sudha Singh, Priyanka Singh Patel, Krishna Poonia, Manpreet Kaur, Patwant Kaur, Saraswathi, Manju Bala, Prajusha M. A., Reshmi Bose, Sahana Kumari, G. G. Promila, Sushmita Singha Roy.
Sportspersons participating in Archery are Dola Banerjee and L. Bombayla Devi.
Sportspersons participating in Aquatics (Diving) are: T. Hari Prasad, Himanshu Tiwari, S. Ravi Kumar Singh and Ms. Hrutika Shriram and Aquatics (Swimming) are: S/Shri Sandeep Sejwal, Tarun Tokas, Praveen Tokas, Arjun J.P. and Merwyn Chen.
Sportspersons taking part in Shooting event are: Suma Shirur and Anisa Sayyed.
The names for Cycling event are: Rajendra Bishnoi, Harpreet Singh, Amandeep Singh, Amrit Singh, Dayala Ram Saran, Prince H. S., Rakesh Kumar, C. Rajesh, Renubala Devi and Sunita Devi.
Amandeep Singh, Manoj Kumar, Dilbag Singh and Paramjeet Samota will be participating in Boxing.
The names of Railway persons in Women Hockey Team are: Deepika Murty, Joydeep Kaur, Binita Toppo, Subdhra Pradhan, Asnuta Lakra, Kirandeep Kaur, Saba Anjum, Surinder Kaur, Th Chanch Devi, Jasjeet Kaur, Mukta P. Barla, and Deepika Thakur.
Anil Kumar, Rajender, Ravinder, Sushil Kumar, Nar Singh yadav, Sanjay Kumar, Anil Mann and Dharmender Dalal will be taking part in the Wrestling Category.
Ashish and Partha Mondal are participating in Gymnastics Category.
Omkar Otari, Swathi Singh, Renu Bala and Srishti Singh will be participating in Weightlifting event.
Kiranjit Kaur will be participating in Net Ball.
In the last Commonwealth Games 2006 held in Melbourne, Australia, Railway players won three Gold, two Silver and One Bronze medals in different individual events.
