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Ivana Furtado Retains World Under-8 Title - by
Arvind Aaron
Ivana Furtado Retains World Title
By Arvind Aaron
India's little champion Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa won the World Girls
Under-8 Title with a final round draw to end on 9/11, a clear half point
ahead of the rest of the field. Thus, she regains her title. Overall,
India won one title in Girls Under-8 and picked up two bronzes in the Boys
Under-10 section through Prince Bajaj of Delhi and Girls Under-14 through
Shalmali Gagare of Rahauri (near Shirdi) in Maharashtra.
Backed by below average nerves, Indians lost out on many medals. India had
won five titles and ten medals in the previous edition at Batumi. Russians
came with a bang for missing out on Batumi for political reasons winning
four of the 12 titles. China and Georgia won two titles each followed by
India, Israel, USA and Romania taking one each.
Indian Placings and medal winners:
Boys Section:
Under-8: 1 Konstantin Savenkov (Rus) 10/11, 2-3 Chingiz Qasimov (Aze),
Maxim Sinyanskiy (Rus) 9 each, 10 Harshal Shahi 7.5, 15 Arjun Bharat 7.5,
17 G.V.Revanth Reddy 7.5, 21 Hetul Shah 7, 29 Jerome Ebenezer 6.5, 42
Shivam Srivastav 6, 48 Yeshwanth Nagasai 6...123 players.
Under-10: 1 Wang Tong Sen (Chn) 9.5/11, 2 Mikhail Al Antipov (Rus) 8.5, 3
Prince Bajaj (Ind) 8, 11 Vaibhav Suri 7, 20 Ch Mohineesh 6.5, 26 Girish
Koushik 6.5...156 players.
Under-12: 1-2 Daniel Naroditsky (USA), Illya Nyzhnyk (Ukr) 9.5 each, 3 Han
Chao (Chn) 8.5, 13 Sahaj Grover 7.5, 23 Shiven Khosla 7, 27 Utkal Ranjan
Sahoo 7, 31 G.V,Sai Krishna 6.5, 41 Fenil Shah 6.5...160 players.
Under-14: 1 Wang Chen (Chn) 8.5, 2-3 Sanan Sjugirov (Rus), Samvel
Ter-Sahakyan (Arm) 8 each, 11 Vidit Gujrathi 7, 16 N.Srinath 7, 17
S.P.Sethuraman 6.5, 30 Prasanna Rao 6, 47 Mehar Chinna Reddy 5.5, 57
Pranav Shetty 5.5, 78 Atishay Ajmera 5...152 players.
Under-16: 1 Ioan Cristian Chirila (Rom) 8.5/11, 2-3 Ruben Pereira (Por),
Boris Kharchenko (Ukr) 8.5 each, 11 S.Nitin 7.5, 22 R.Ashwath 7, 31
B.Adhiban 6.5, 36 V.A.V.Rajesh 6.5...125 players.
Under-18: 1 Ivan Popov (Rus) 9/11, 2 Edouard Romain (Fra) 8.5, 3 Aleksandr
Rakhmandov (Rus) 8.5 each, 28 Gogineni Rohith 6.5, 31 D.Sai Srinivas 6.5,
52 M.R.Lalith Babu 6...112 players.
Girls Section:
Under-8: 1 Ivana Maria Furtado (Ind) 9/11, 2-3 Gunay Mammadzada (Aze),
Aydan Hojatova (Aze) 8.5 each, 8 P.Preethy 8, 10 C.H.Meghna 7, 46 Prathima
Muthyala Bansi 5, 59 C.R.Varsha 4...73 players.
Under-10: 1 Anna Styazhkina (Rus) 9.5/11, 2 Chiang Sarah (USA) 8.5, 3 Gue
Yue Fan (Chn) 8.5, 11 M.Mahalakshmi 7.5, 19 U.Ashwini 7, 24 Gorthy
Aishwarya 6.5...102 players.
Under-12: 1 Marsel Efroimski (Isr) 9.5, 2 Dinara Saduakasova (Kaz) 9, 3 Qi
Guo (Chn) 8.5, 8 Priyanka Kumari 8, 14 J.Vaishnavi 7, 19 B.Pratyusha 7, 22
Ch Sahajasri 7, 31 Anjana S Krishna 6.5...122 players.
Under-14: 1 Nazi Paikidze (Geo) 8.5/11, 2 Cori T Deysi (Per) 8, 3 Shalmali
Gagare (Ind) 7.5, 5 Mohana Priya 7.5, 11 Padmini Rout 7, 21 N.L.V.Anusha
6.5, 51 K.Sai Nirupama 5...114 players.
Under-16: 1-3 Keti Tsatsalashvili (Geo), Olga Girya (Rus), Olga Ivanenko (Ukr)
8.5 each, 21 P.Uthra 7, 32 Pon N.Krithikha 6, 45 Bhakti Kulkarni 5.5, 48
Mitali Patil 5.5...106 players.
Under-18: 1 Valentina Gunina (Rus) 9/11, 2 Katerina Nemcova (Cze) 8.5, 3
Betul Cemre Yildiz (Tur) 8 each, 6 Mary Ann Gomes 7.5, 13-14 Kiran Mohanty,
R.Preethi 7 each...76 players
Photo gallery
Ivana Wins, Keeps Lead
Ivana Furtado Moves Into Lead
Vidit Gujrathi Wrests Slender Lead
Vidit Joins Lead In Boys Under-14
Mary Ann Gomes In Sole Lead
Four Indians Among Leaders
Indians Share Lead In Seven Sections
Indians Among Leaders In Ten Sections
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Published: 28th November, 2007
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