Media Release
Riyadh, Apr 8: KWAR (Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh, KSA) conducted its annual sports event on March 31 on Istrah Manak Grounds. More than 250 members attended the special event, conducted in a well-organized manner. KWAR executive committee members and specially the sports committee headed by Iqbal Tanzimi, Jayakar Poojary, Salman Noor and Anoop Shetty and ably supported by Prasanna Rao, Suresh Raj and Prakash Shetty, kept up the KWAR tradition of 'Unity is our strength'.
The gates opened by 9 am and a special Karavali flavored breakfast was served to all the gathered members. At 10 am games began and the president Santhosh Shetty welcomed all the members and thanked them for their active participation though it was held on Friday, the week end.
In well laid out plan, the players were selected and grouped into four teams without any prejudice. The captains of Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow teams were Rafi Ali, former president Rajesh Kumar, vice president Muzaffer Ali and Yathiraj Malpe. The teams were given a well-orchestrated march-past by their ever agile and energetic Umesh Shetty. It was a treat to watch as even women and children participated in making it the best of the day.
All the participants pledged to perform their level best and obey the rules and regulations in a very fair and sportive manner. Some of the prominent members who attended the sports day included KWAR former presidents Royston Prabhu and Rajesh Kumar, BARSA president Santhosh Shetty, Konkan Ghar president Eric D'Sa, MASA Dammam
representative Nagaraj Bajal, Jamaiyytul Falah president Muzaffer Ali and KWAR general secretary Shashidhar Haridas.
Three individual games, shot put, coconut game and breaking the pot were played.Team games comprised of traditional Tire Race Relay (eight players in each team) and the relay race (eight players in each team), kabaddi, volleyball and tug of war.
Winners of the individual games as well as team games were:
1. Shot-put
Gold - Deepak (team Green), silver - Arjun (team Blue), bronze - Nagaraj (team Blue)
2. Pot breaking
Gold - Zahid (team Red)
3. Coconut game
Gold - Jagadish (team Red)
4. Relay Race
Gold - team Green, silver - team Blue, bronze - team Red
5. Tire Relay Race
Gold - team Green, silver - team Blue, bronze - team Red
6. Volleyball
Gold - team Green, silver - team Blue
7. Kabaddi
Gold - team Blue, silver - team Green
8. Tug of War
Gold - team Yellow, silver - team Green
Team Green were the overall champions with 140 points and runners up were team Blue with 97 points. All the players were awarded medals and the champions team Green were awarded the winners trophy.
Games for the women and children were conducted simultaneously in the adjacent ground under the able leadership of Dr Vanishree and well supported by Nazia Nazir, Smitha Haridas, Babita Jayakar and Rajeshwari Yathiraj. There were 12 games for children and five individual games as well as eight team games for ladies. The teams Red/Blue/Green/Yellow played with a great spirit. Team Red captained by Nazia Nazir were declared champions and the runners-up were Blue team Led by Rajeshwari Yathiraj. Second runners-up were Green team led by Jamila Abdul Aziz. Individual gold winners were Dr Vanishree, Rakshita, Mala, Anita, and Babita for shotput/100 m race/sack race/cycle tire race and pot breaking respectively. It was great pleasure to watch KWAR women and children in great sporting action. All the winners were awarded trophyies and medals.
Delicious lunch arranged by Prakash Shetty, coffee/juices from Al Dawa Co, snacks from Al-Kabeer Cowas was served to all the members gathered throughout the day as well as fruit juices from NADEC.
The gates were well managed by Victor, Nelson D’Souza and Mahesh Hegde.
KWAR managed to collect some amount of donation for a kidney patient due to the timely action by Victor, Nelson and Irfan.
The sports event was sponsored by NADEC, Al-Kabeer and Al-Dawa Company. President Santhosh Shetty thanked all the members, participants of the sport events, sponsors and the special invitees as well as the 'KWAR blood donors' for the success of the sports event. He also thanked KWAR women’s wing for their overwhelming support toward the grand success of Karavali Sports Day 2017.
KWAR president requested all the members and guests to mark a note in their calendars the upcoming mega event of KWAR, 'Karavali Parba 2017' on May 11.
The day-long event ended with the recitation of the National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana.