Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Xavier D'Souza

Bodybuilding champion, Grand Cayman

-won the Mr. India title in 1992
-Mr. Cayman Extreme open class champion 2005
-NIBF World Bodybuilding Championship in Japan 7th place 1991
-Mr. U.A.E Bodybuilding Championship middle weight class winner 1995 &1998
-Mr.Middle East Bodybuilding Champioship middle weight class winner 1998
-INBF World Championship middle weight class winner 2005
-INBF World Championship 2nd in middle weight class winner 2006

Source - click here



Uday Zambaulikar

- became the first Indian to win a place in an international Karate tourney by taking home the eighth place at the ASEI Cup in Hungary in July 2000.

- participated in the World Karate Championships in Tokyo as a member ofIndia's 15-member contingent for the 10-day international meet in September, 2001. Stood 5th.

Baseball/Softball internationals for India

Monica Lobo (Saligao)
- represented India at the 5th Asian Women’s Softball Championships held at Jakarta, Indonesia in 1991.
- had the honour of captaining India at the 6th Asian Women’s Softball Championships in Manila, Phillipines in 1995.
- has also officiated as an Umpire at the 1st Asian Youth Softball Championships held at Chennai in 1997.

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The following players represented the Indian women's baseball team at the World Baseball Series, held in Tokyo, Japan, from July 17 to 22, 2004

1) Madhura Upadhye
2) Kavita Avati
3) Geeta Parwar
4) Vidhya Satarkar

Sailing/Yachting/Windsurfing Internationals

This is the liist of those from Goa who have represented India.

SAILING/YACHTING
1) Chaitanya Chowgule
2) Salil Sabir
3) Pallavi Naik
4) Tricia Silveira
5) Trisha Sabir
6) Kabir Tombat
7) Amir Noronha

WINDSURFING
1) Anil Madgavkar
2) Remy Fernandes
3) Derrick Menezes
4) Donald Coelho
5) Herbert Rodrigues

Pratima Gaonkar

- Represented India at the Asian Junior Athletics championships in Brunei in 2001.
- Was a member of the
4 x 400 mt relay team at the same championships which bagged the silver medal.
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Was selected for the coaching camp to select the Indian teams for the SAF Games to be held in Islamabad and the Afro-Asian Games to be held in New Delhi, for the 400 m and 4 x 400 m relay events.
- Expired under tragic circumstances on 9th October 2001.


Links : 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Vijay Madgavkar

Vijay Madgavkar was a Maharashtrian representing Calcutta in badminton. He later moved to Goa and made it his home.
He was the first national badminton champion of India in the Men's Singles event in 1935 at the Calcutta Nationals.
In 1935 he partnered B Roy to claim the national doubles title.
Madgavkar was India 's first skipper of the Thomas Cup side. They lost in the semi-finals to Britain.
He was the first Indian to reach the finals of the All England Badminton Open in 1947.
His son Anil represented the country in Windsurfing and his grand-daughters Nisha, Annika and Ayesha have represented the country in the Asia Pacific Diving Championships.

Swimming/Diving Internationals

1) Nisha Madgavkar (Sangolda)
- the first swimmer from Goa to represent India when she went to Singapore for the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships in 1991 at the age of 12
- represented India at the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships held at Pusan, South Korea in 1996 and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998.


2) Annika Madgavkar (Sangolda)
- Represented India first in 1994 in diving at the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships
- Won a bronze in the 1M Spring Board Diving event at the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships in 1994
- Won a bronze in the 1M Spring Board Diving event at the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships in Pusan, South Korea in 1996

3) Szewinska Gwen D'Mello (Chorao)
- Represented India first in 1994 in diving at the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships
- Won a bronze at medal at the same Championships in 1994

4) Ayesha Madgavkar (Sangolda)
- got the 5th spot in the 1M Spring Board Diving at the Asia Pacific Aquatic Championships in 1996.
- represented India at the Championships in Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), 1997 and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998


5) Sayuli Pai Raikar (Caranzalem)
- represented India at the Asian Aquatic Championships in Hong Kong in 2001
- won a Bronze medal in the 5M High Board Diving event at the same event.

6) Sushmeeta Sasta (Margao)
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represented India at the 4th Asian Amateur Swimming Federation Championships in Bangkok in 2005
- Finished 6th in the high-board and 8th in the 3m springboard

7) Talasha Prabhu (Panaji)
- Asian age-group championship to be held in Jakarta in 2007
- 1st South Asia swimming championship in Islamabad in September in 2007.



Source - http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:fr6YGmnw4tkJ:www.goasudharop.org/docs/women-book.doc+Anil+Madgavkar&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=in&client=firefox-a

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Lavy Pinto

Represented India in athletics

- Won the 100m and 200m at the inaugural Asian Games in 1951 in Delhi and was given the title of Asia's fastest man
- Represented India in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics
- A block at the Asian Games Village in Delhi is named the Lavy Pinto Block

Links - 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Seraphino Antao - Kenya Athletics

Represented Kenya in athletics
Originally from Chandor in Goa.

Born : Makadara Estate, Mombasa, 30th October 1937
Nickname : Gazelle
Parents : Diogo Manuel and Anna Maria Antao
Schools : Goan High School (St Valentine High School) ; Goan Secondary School (now Mombasa High School)

Sporting Achievements :

-> broke the Kenya National records for 100 and 220 yards in 1957.

-> First competed in the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales in 1958.

-> Reached semifinals of 1960 Rome Olympics.

-> joined top athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations for a match against USA in London's White City stadium immediately after the 1960 Olympics in Rome. The Commonwealth team, made up of runners from Britain, Bahamas, West Indies and included Antao tied with the USA team in the 4x100 yards in world record time of 40 seconds.

-> won the 110 yards (Timing - 9.5 seconds) and 220 yards (Timing - 21.1 seconds) golden double at the Commonwealth Games (Empire Games) in Perth, Australia in 1962. Also ran the 4 x 440 yards relay with the Kenyan team who finished fifth in the final.

-> won a double at the British Championships in 1962.

-> won a double in the Czechoslovakia Championships in Prague.

-> participated in World Class meets(equivalent of what are Prix meets today), in Zurich, Berlin and London. Won the 1963 meet in Zurich clocking 10.5 seconds.

-> chosen as the flagbearer for the Kenyan team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Unfortunately, he fell ill and had to opt out.

-> won the prestigious Helms Athletics Foundation award the following year, which was awarded to six greatest athletes of the six continents by the American Foundation.



Links - 1, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Test Cricketers of Goan origin

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played Test cricket

1) Wallis Mathias for Pakistan in 1955
2) Antao D'Souza for Pakistan in 1959
3) Dilip Sardesai for India in 1961
4) Paras Mhambrey for India in 1996 (traces roots to Aldona)


Goan cricketers for India in age-group tournaments

- Saurabh Bandekar U-19
- Rahul Keni U-19

Dilip Narayan Sardesai

Born August 8, 1940, Margao, Goa
Died July 2, 2007 , Mumbai (aged 66 years 328 days)
Current age 66 years 171 days
Major teams : India, Mumbai
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm bowler

Batting and fielding averages
class mat inns no runs hs ave 100 50 6s ct st
Tests 30 55 4 2001 212 39.23 5 9 2 4 0
First-class 179 271 26 10230 222 41.75 25 56
85 0

Bowling averages
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 30 59 45 0 - - - 4.57 - 0 0 0
First-class 179 791 552 8 2/15
69.00 4.18 98.87
0 0


Career statistics

Test debut India v England at Kanpur - Dec 1-6, 1961 scorecard
Last Test India v England at Delhi - Dec 20-25, 1972 scorecard
First-class span 1960/61 - 1972/73

The 1970-71 West Indies tour was the last chance for Dilip Sardesai. He was lucky to be picked - it had looked as if his career was dead and buried - he went on to be Indian cricket's Renaissance Man in the watershed year of 1971. A technically correct player, the solid, wristy Sardesai was proficient against spin, but in West Indies he showed his mettle against pace, and pulled India repeatedly out of quicksand. He scored 642 runs, with two single hundreds and a double, and provided an inspirational launching-pad for a legend - Sunil Gavaskar, in his first series. In England later in 1971, Sardesai's pivotal double of 54 and 40 allowed Chandrasekhar to hasten England's defeat at The Oval. Sardesai was limpet-like and usually defensive, but he could attack when he needed to, and scored one of India's fastest hundreds, against New Zealand at Delhi in 1964-65. In the previous Test, his 200 not out at Bombay salvaged a draw after India had been skittled for 88 in the innings. Sardesai enjoyed playing against England: he made his Test debut against them in 1961-62, even before he'd played for Bombay, and it was against England, at Kanpur two years later, that he scored 79 and, after India followed on, 87 to help save the game.
H Natarajan

Cricinfo Profile can be viewed here
Interview with Vinayak Naik here
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Antao D'Souza

Born : January 17, 1939, Goa, India
Current age : 68 years 9 days
Major teams : Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar Cricket Association Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages
class mat inns no runs hs ave 100 50 6s ct st
Tests 6 10 8 76 23* 38.00 0 0 0 3 0
First-class 61 72 29 815 45 18.95 0 0
20 0

Bowling averages
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 6 1587 745 17 5/112 5/112 43.82 2.81 93.35 1 1 0
First-class 61
4947 190 7/33
26.03


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Career statistics

Test debut Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Feb 20-25, 1959 scorecard
Last Test England v Pakistan at The Oval - Aug 16-20, 1962 scorecard
First-class span 1956/57 - 1966/67

Cricinfo Profile can be viewed here
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Wallis Mathias

Born- February 4, 1935, Karachi, Sind
Died - September 1, 1994, Karachi, Sind (aged 59 years 209 days)
Major teams: Pakistan, Karachi, National Bank of Pakistan, Sind
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium

Batting and fielding averages
class mat inns no runs hs ave 100 50 6s ct st
Tests 21 36 3 783 77 23.72 0 3 0 22 0
First-class 146 206 37 7520 278* 44.49 16

130 0
List A 1 1 1 51 51* - 0 1
0 0

Bowling averages
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 21 24 20 0 - - - 5.00 - 0 0 0
First-class 146
532 13 2/4
40.92


0 0
List A 1 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0

Career statistics

Test debut Pakistan v New Zealand at Dhaka - Nov 7-12, 1955 scorecard
Last Test England v Pakistan at The Oval - Aug 16-20, 1962 scorecard
First-class span 1953/54 - 1976/77
List A span 1974/75


Wisden obituary
Wallis Mathias, who died on September 1, 1994, after a brain haemorrhage, aged 59, was the first non-Muslim to play for Pakistan. He made his debut in November 1955 as a 20-year-old and played in 21 Tests over the next seven years.

His greatest merit was his fielding; he was the safe pair of hands in the slips that Pakistan's strong medium-pace attack of that era desperately wanted. He had exceptional reflexes and, though he took some spectacular catches, his great skill was to make hard chances look simple.

He was also a middle-order batsman whose figures did not do justice to the usefulness of his runs: he scored 783 runs in Tests at 23.72, but regularly played critical little innings. The 64 and 45 he scored in Pakistan's win over West Indies at Dacca in 1958-59 made him easily the most successful batsman in a low-scoring game; a year earlier he had scored 73 and 77 in successive Tests in the Caribbean. He played three Tests in England in 1962, but the following year he suffered a finger injury in the nets which left him with a slight deformity that restricted his brilliant catching. He continued in domestic cricket and scored 278 not out for Karachi Blues against Railway Greens in 1965-66. In 1969-70 he became National Bank's first captain and played on until 1975-76 before becoming coach, selector and manager. In 146 first-class matches he made 7,520 runs, average 44.49, including 16 centuries. He held 130 catches, 22 in Tests. He was a popular captain and a much respected man.
Kamran Abassi (link)

The Test Career Figures can be viewed here.
Cricinfo Profile can be viewed here.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Men's Hockey Internationals of Goan origin for all countries (except India)

[O] signifies Olympian

PAKISTAN

Peter Paul Fernandes [O]- 1948 (also Rep India 1936 )
*Jack Britto [O]- 1950 to 1952 (8 caps)
Milton D'Mello - Tour to Spain in 1948 (3 caps)
Gerry Barboza - Tour to East Africa/New Zealand
Gordon Vaz

KENYA
Rosario S F Dalgado [O]- 1956
Aloysius E Mendonca [O]- 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 (captained in 1960)
Michael Estavo Pereira [O]- 1956
Joseph George - 1950s
Saude Andre George [O]- 1960, 1964
Anthony Querobino Vaz [O]- 1956, 1960, 1964
Edgar Simon Fernandes [O]- 1960, 1964
Reynold Anthony Da Souza [O]- 1956, 1964
Hilary John Fernandes [O]- 1960, 1964, 1968
Egbert Carmo Fernandes [O]- 1960, 1964, 1968
Silvester Fernandes [O]- 1960, 1964, 1968
Leo Fernandes [O]- 1964, 1968, 1972
Reynolds Pereira [O]- 1968, 1972
Phillip Da Souza [O]- 1972
Raymond D'Souza - 1980s
Giles Fernandes - 1983
Walter D'Souza - 1983
Patrick Martins [O]- 1984
Raphael Fernandes [O]- 1976, 1984

MEXICO
Zeno Fernandez [O]- 1968

ENGLAND

Rui Saldanha [O]- 1972 Olympics. Has 26 caps for Great Britain from 1971-76 and 35 caps for England from 1969-78.
Warren D'Souza - England U-21 in 2005

UGANDA
Roger Gomes 1963-1970
George Moraes 1968 - 1972
William Lobo 1961- 1972
Polycarp Pereira 1958 - 1972
Al Mathias - 1952 - 1966
Carlitho Mascarenhas 1963-1971
Joseph Lobo 1963-1972
Jose Pereira 1959-1965
Cosme DeSouza 1953-1963
Felix Britto 1953-1963
Chris Pereira 1953-1963
Victor Pereira 1951-1959
Tony Pereira 1951-1957
Lesley DaCosta 1961-1963
Llewyn Da Costa 1959-1962
Stanley DeSouza 1968
Franklin Pereira 1963-1965
Wilfred Rodrigues 1961-1965
Renata Rodrigues 1961-1965
Osbert Remedios 1963-1965

TANZANIA
Alban Fernandes - 1960s
Armand 'Chic' Saldanha - 1960s
Peter Gonsalves - 1960s
Raymond Lopes - 1960s
Stephen DeSouza - 1969
Denzil Nazareth - 1969
Tony D'Souza - 1970s
Kenneth Nazareth
Oscar De Mello
Allan Mascarenhas - 1978 onwards
Rosario Fernandes - 1978
Soter Da Silva [O]- 1980
Stephen Da Silva [O]- 1980
Frederick Furtado [O]- 1980
Leopold Gracias [O]- 1980
Benedict Mendes [O]- 1980

USA
Trevor Fernandes [O]- 1984

MALAWI
*Jack Britto -1954 onwards

CANADA
Howard Fernandes - 1978 World Cup
Aaron Fernandes [O] - 1984
Cedric Vaz - 1986
John D'Souza - PanAm Games 1995
Wayne Fernandes [O]- 2000
Jeff Pacheco - 2000
Robin D'Abreo [O]- 2000
Sean Barretto - 2002
Ken Pereira - PanAm Games 1995
Wesley D'Souza
Devohn Teixeira
Keegan Pereira (Junior team)
Shannon Barretto - U21 team to Argentina 1999
Conrad Fenandes - Indoor Hockey World Cup 2005
David Almeida - Indoor Hockey World Cuo 2005
Keegan Pereira - U21 World Cup Qualifier 2008



SEYCHELLES
Danny D'Souza - represented U-21 Seychelles team in Kenya


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This list is not complete. Additions/clarifications/corrections invited.

*Represented Pakistan and Malawi

Sources : Carmo D'Cruz, Lenny Barretto, Dil Bahra, Jagjit Singh Gill, Cyril Pereira, Mervyn Lobo, Tony Barros, Manny Sandhu, Goan Voice UK

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Men's Hockey Internationals of Goan origin for India

The following are the names of Hockey Internationals for India of Goan origin
(Sources : Carmo D'Cruz, Bharatiya Hockey)

1) Peter Paul Fernandes - 1936 Olympics for India and later 1948 Olympics for Pakistan
2) Leo Pinto - 1948 Olympics
3) Lawrie Fernandes - 1948 Olympics
4) Walter D'Souza 1948 Olympics
5) Maxie Vaz 1948 Olympics
6) Reginald Rodrigues 1948 Olympics
7) Leslie Fernandes 1974 Asian Games
8) John Correia 1974 Asian Games
9) Olympio Fernandes 1978 Asian Games
10) Cedric Pereira -> 1971 World Cup
11) Francis D'Mello -> 1971 World Cup
12) Vece Paes -> 1972 Olympics
13) Joaquim Carvalho ->
14) Mervyn Fernandes -> 1980 Olympics
15) Cedric D'Souza ->
16) Edgar Mascarenhas -> 1990 WC
17) Darryl D'Souza -> 1990 Asian Games
18) John Fernandes -> 1990 Asian Games
19) John Mascarenhas -> 1960 Olympics
20) Joe D'Mello -> 1954 tour to Malaya (Singapore/Malaysia)
21) Gavin Ferreira
22) Viren Rasquinha
23) Cheops D'Costa
24) Cornelius D'Costa
25) Diago D'Souza
26) Gilbert Lobo
27) Adolf Colaco
28) Avitus D'Cruz
29) Kenneth Fernandes
30) Clarence Lobo
31) Romeo Albuquerque
32) Alden D'Souza
33) Adrian D'Souza
34) Peter Menezes


Additions/Corrections invited.
Again this is not the complete and accurate list but just a tentative one.

Sources : Godfrey D'Souza, BharatiyaHockey.org

Friday, January 19, 2007

About the blog


This blog is an attempt to chronicle Goans who have done well at the international arena in all sports. The goal is to keep it brief, and accurate. If your passion is Goa and sports, maybe you should help out here. More hands are always better. If you are interested, you could help out with the blog to research, compile, and validate the data already available. Be a co-author.