Keekli Reporter, 30-31st August, 2014, Shimla
A two day roller skating, road and indoor races — 2nd All India Open Roller Skating Gold Cup — was organized for the children between age groups 4 to 16 plus from 30th to 31st August, 2014, here in Shimla by the Roller Hawks Club and HS Sports Academy, Punjab in association with the District Roller Skating Association, Shimla. President Sukhbir Singh of the HS Sports Academy and President Amarpreet Mumick, District Roller Skating Association Shimla welcomed the Chief Guest, Deputy Mayor Tikendar Panwar as he inaugurated the two day event and presented him a token gift. Deputy Mayor shared a light moment with the participants and encouraged them to give a brilliant performa
nce no matter whether they won or lost. More than 350 children from different parts of India participated in this open event and gave some thrilling performances.
President Mumick informed that a two day event was planned for the children in which road and rink races were organized in the age groups under 6, 6, 8, 10 12, 14, 16 and 16 plus. Teams from all over India had come to participate in this two day event. A division of events was also made on the basis of quad and inline skating. On future of the games and importance of skating he said, “We are in talks with different associations and coaches to organize one of a kind Open Roller Skating Race from Goa to Bombay as a tribute to the founder of Roller Skating in Shimla, late Shri SP Mumick and Bollywood icon Shri Raj Kapoor, who encouraged this sport and enthusiastically indulged in it”.
Arvind Gupta representing the Association of Roller Skating, Uttrakhand, accompanied a team of 14, with 1 girl and 13 boys in the age group under 6 to 16 year olds. These kids participated in both the road as well as rink races and the participants were Yati Gupta, Mamik, Dinesh Gupta, Siddharth Jain, Ayaan, Ishaan, Abhishek Maurya to name a few.
There was only one team from Shimla schools, the Auckland House Girls and Boys School who did their coach proud as they picked up quite a number of medals in various categories. Participants from Auckland House School accompanied with their skating coach Pankaj Prabharkar were — Parnaaz Kaur, Mahima Narayan, Subhadra Singh, Gurdeep Kaur, Navya Johal, Jasmeen Kaur, Stuti Dutta, Kanishka Chaudhary, Jannat Brar, Shreya Chauhan, Kavya Garg, Anmoldeep Kaur among others in the girls team, while boys who participated were Gurjeet Singh, Harkunwar, Aniket Chauhan and Kavya Taneja etc. On the first days both the boys and the girls participated in the 500 and 1000 metres speed skating events, in both quad and inline skating. A total of 18 girls and 9 boys participated during the two days competition.
Participants from DPS School, Sangrur, Punjab were accompanied with their sports teacher Satwant Singh. A total of 18 boys were taking part in various categories ranging from 8 to 14 years. The young and energetic participants were Arpan Teg Singh, Ramit Adhikari, Kunsh Jain, Jatin Goyal, Vansh Sikhon, Shobit Garg, Harry Dilon, Damanpreet Singh, Divyajot Singh, Cheery Win, Simranjeet, Agrim Garg, Vishwajeet, Sehrab Singhasta, Purangad Singh, Aarush Bhagria and Gurveer Singh among others.
Team Punjab comprising of about 50 kids were accompanied with coaches Bhupinder Singh and Dilbag Singh Kahlon. More than 15 girls participated in different categories and names of a few participants were Aniket, Sparsh, Atulya, Sarthak, Harshit, Shagun, Ashish, Maruti, Aviraj, Samrat, and Karan.
Team UP was accompanied with their coach Pawan Kumar which comprised of seven boys in the age group 8 to 16 plus, namely, Akanshit Sharma, Daksh Pandey, Yash Sharma, Arjun, Anant, Ajay, and Vidant Tyagi. Ananya and Saumya represented team from Gobindgarh, Punjab.
Nupur Bhatia and Sai Vignesh from Delhi were quite ecstatic on winning gold medals in their respective categories. Sharing their experiences they were very happy coming to Shimla for this open event and participating in various categories. There was overall excitement among the coaches and winners for the number of medals won all round. In unionized tone they all looked forward to the next event and assured that each team would try to increase the number of participants and win more medals in the next competitions. A couple of falls and fouls could not deter the spirit of these excited children, who still got up to finish their race.
Recap of Roller Skating in Shimla
President, District Roller Skating Association Shimla gave a quick recap of the history of roller skating in Shimla and its now growing popularity in the City and other states. A rare collection of news clippings and photographs of doyens such as Jawarhar Lal Nehru, Raj Kapoor, Rajiv Gandhi, I S Johar, Balraj Sahani was a treat to study, as all had, had their stints at the Roller Skating Rink in Shimla. The foundation of the Roller Skating Association in Shimla is credited to late Shri SP Mumick in the year 1965. Since then numerous competitions have been held on a regular basis but over a period of time people lost interest and it became a dying sport.
President Mumick further added that the great legend Dara Singh also visited the Rink when he was awarded the Rustam-e-Hind title, and similarly the list goes on, with many Bollywood stars and Army personnel have visited the Rink and have rolled few laps. “I am in talks with other roller skating associations to revive the sport in a massive scale and organize regular competitions for children. We also wish to take the sport to various parts of Himachal — Dharamshala, Kullu, Manali, Mandi, Hamirpur, and encourage schools, colleges and universities to start roller skating classes in the campus. For the same we are willing to provide coaches on very nominal rates, to hold classes thrice a week on a regular basis to interest children in this sport. Efforts will be made to popularize the sport and encourage children to enroll and start practicing”, he concluded.
Winners of Day 1 – Road Races
Under 6 Boys Quad – 1st Aryan; 2nd Maruti, Pathankot; 3rd Trehaan, Gobindgarh.
6-8 Boys Inline – 1st Prabhleen Singh, Sarhand; 2nd Arman, Sarhand; 3rd Tanisha, Ambala.
Under 8 Boys Inline – 1st Kanak, Rajasthan; 2nd Deepak, Rajasthan; 3rd Sarthak, Pathankot.
6-8 Boys Quad – 1st Husanpreet Singh, Punjab; 2nd Harshit, Punjab; 3rd Deepanshu.
8-10 Boys Inline – 1st Atalya; 2nd Akanshit, Gaziabad; 3rd Parth, Shimla; 3rd Chetanya, Ambala.
8-10 Boys Quad – 1st Ashish, Pathankot; 2d Rahulpreet, Sangrur.
10-12 Girls Quad – 1st Deepshikha, Thane; 2nd Sanya, Barnala; 3rd Gurdeep Kaur, Shimla.
12-14 Girls Inline – 1st Jasmine, Shimla; Isha, Shimla; Divya, Shimla.
12-14 Girls Quad – 1st Himanshi, Sangrur; 2nd Avanshika, Shimla; 3rd Dixsha, Sangrur.
14-16 Girls Quad – 1st Yati Gupta, Uttrakhand; 2nd Aarushi, Shimla.
8-10 Boys Quad – 1st Rishabh, Meerut; 2nd Devanshu, Gobindgarh; 3rd Bhavya, Gobindgarh.
10-12 Boys Inline – 1st Aryan, Rajpura; 2nd Veeraj, Ambala; 3rd Maninder Singh, Ambala.
12-14 Boys Inline – 1st Sai Vigesh, Delhi; 2nd Yash, Gaziabad; 3rd Karan, Gaziabad.
12-14 Boys Quad – 1st Jeevansh, Dehradun; 2nd Gaurav, Shimla; 3rd Sharansh, Dehradun.
14-16 Boys Inline – 1st Rishab, Ambala; 2nd Jashandeep, Jalandhar; 3rd Ayan, Dehradun.
16 & Above – 1st Mohit, Rajasthan; 2nd Pankaj, Shimla; 3rd Pardeep, Shimla.
Winners of Day 2 – Rink Races
Under 6 Boys Quad – 1st Aryan, thane; 2nd Rishan, Ambala; 3rd Jodhveer Singh, Ambala.
6-8 Girls Quad – 1st Mahira, Rajpura; 2nd Somya, Gobindpur; 3rd Ekta, Rajastha.
6-8 Boys Inline – 1st Prableen Singh, Sarhand; 2nd Arman, Sarhand; 3rd Tanishq, Ambala.
Under 8 Boys Quad – 1st Husanpreet Singh, Ambala; 2nd Aviraj, Jallandhar; 3rd Aryan, Rajpur.
Under 10 Girls Quad – 1st Aanya, Gobindghar; 2nd Himanshu, Sangrur; 3rd Avanshika, Shimla.
Under 10 Boys – 1st Ashish, Pathankot; 2nd Rahulpreet, Sangrur; 3rd Ishaan Chaodhary.
Under 12 Girls Quad – 1st Deepshikha, Thane; 2nd Sanya, Barnala; 3rd Gurdeep Kaur, Shimla.
Under 12 Girls Inline – 1st Jannat, Shimla; 2nd Navya, Shimla; 3rd Mahima, Shimla.
Under 12 Boys Quad – 1st Navreet Singh, Ambala; 2nd Navleen Singh, Ambala; 3rd Sagar, Rajasthan.
Under 12 Boys Inline – 1st Aryan, Rajpura; 2nd Veeraj, Ambala; 3rd Maninder, Ambala; 3rd Chaitnya, Ambala.
Under 14 Girls Quad – 1st Isha, Barnala; 2nd Rijuta, Shimla; 3rd Anmoldeep Singh, Shimla.
Under 14 Girls Inline – 1st Jasmine, Shimla; 2nd Isha, Shimla; 3rd Divya, Shimla.
Under 14 Boys Quad – 1st Prateek, Thane; 2nd Karanveer Singh, Ambala; 3rd Uday Singh, Meerut.
Under 14 Boys Inline – 1st Sai Vignesh, Delhi; 2nd Yash, Gaziabad; 3rd Karan, Gaziabad.
Under 16 Girls Quad – 1st Yati Gupta, Uttrakhand; 2nd Aarushi, Shimla.
Above 16 Girls Inline – 1st Nupur, Delhi.
Under 16 Boys Quad – 1st Jeevansh, Dehradun; 2nd Gaurav Singh, Shimla; 3rd Sharansh, Dehradun.
Under 16 Boys Inline – 1st Rishab, Ambala; 2nd Jashandeep, Jalandhar; 3rd Ayan, Dehradun.
Above 16 Boys Inline – 1st davinder Singh, Shimla.
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