Tue, Nov 09 10 10:21 PM
Jamshedpur, Nov 9 (PTI) The Indian women''s handball team would reach the quarter-final round in the 16th Asian Games in China, former Olympian Harbhajan Singh said today. "I am confident that the Indian women''s team would reach the quarter-final stage even if it fails to secure a place in the last four," Singh, who represented India at the 1979 Asian Handball Championship in China, told PTI here. Singh had also represented the country in basketball in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. On the prospect of the Indian eves in handball at the November 12-27 Games, Singh said the Guangzhou event will give an opportunity "for our girls to perform at the international level". "We have some good and experienced players who need more international exposure," he said. Singh hailed the move of the Handball Federation of India in appointing Poonam Roy, teacher of a local school, as the team coach and selecting a tribal girl Pano Mardi in the team, for the first time from Jharkhand. While Mardi was the first tribal girl to represent the country from the state, Roy was the coach of women''s team that won the South Asian Championship in Lucknow two years back. PTI BS AMD SUS PDS
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