Deepali among Chattrapati award recipients

MUMBAI: Kalyan resident Deepali Kulkarni, who had won two successive awards in the Asian bench-press competitions held in Manila (2006) and Hong Kong (2007) respectively, was among 35 sportspersons who were given Chattrapati awards for the year 2008-09 by the Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan at a function here on Monday.
List of awardees
Shivchattrapati Rajya Krida Jivan Gaurav Purashkar: Chandrakant Madhavrao Shirole (rowing) and Ganpatrao Krishnaji Patil-Andalkar (wrestling).
Utkrushta Krida Margdarshak Puraskra: Gokul Raghunath Kamat (swimming), Arun Govind Domukh (kho-kho) and Sanjay Tukaram Satpute (cycling).
Jijamata Rajya Krida Puraskar: Shailja Jainendrakumar Jain (kabaddi).
Shivchattrapati Rajya Krida Purashkar: Vijaymala Mahadeo Patil (athletics); Sujata Babarao and Loukik Jagannath Fulkar (both attyapattya); Sampada Manohar Sahastrabuddhe (badminton); Raksha Ramkrushna Maharao, Deepali Umakant Kulkarni, Snehankita Babasaheb Varute, Manik Namdeorao Thosare, Ramdas Baban Kharat (all bench-press); Rebeka Paul Gaware, Deepika Hany Joseph, Rajeshri Raghunath Pawar, Nitin Govardhan Dhule (all kabaddi); Rahul Balasaheb Aware (wrestling); Poorva Kiran Shete (swimming); Poonam Sanjiv Saha (diving); Akshta Sanjay Shete and Tarak Lakhanchandra Das (both gymnastic); Veena Kishan Khadkumbarge (handball); Shilpa Kanta Jadhav and Saket Shrinivas Jeste (kho-kho); Kruta Suresh Deshmukh and Pankaj Mohun Shinde (both mallkhamb); Priya Narendra Agarwal and Ashok Yashwant Karande (both shooting); Sandeep Suryakant Awari (powerlifting); Mansi Suhaschandra Bhide and Akash Prakash Khatri (both skating); Priyanka Vitthalrao Desai (cycling); Madhurika Suhas Patkar and Aniket Vinayak Koparkar (table tennis); Shraddha Srirang Bhat (taekwondo); Sanyukta Padmakar Somvanshi and Uday Parmeshwar Dongre (both fencing) and Payal Bhalchandra Ajmire (water polo).
Eklavya Rajya Krida Puraskar: Sanjay Ramrao Bhoskar (table tennis) and Jyoti Ashok Jadhav (athletics).
Vishesh Puraskar (sahsi upkram): Snehal Satish Kadam (sea swimming).