Jagmohan Pattnaik of Kalahandi District Athletic Association became the new president of Orissa Athletic Association, replacing Kamalakanta Pandey here today. Asirbad Behera retained his post as the secretary. In fact, candidates for all the posts were elected uncontested for the next four years (2010-2014) after scrutiny and withdrawal of nominations yesterday and today. The results, however, will be officially declared on September 26 in Annual General Meeting of the Association.

OFFICE-BEARERS:

President: Jagmohan Pattnaik (Kalahandi DAA); Vice-Presidents (Eight): Manoranjan Mohanty (Bhubaneswar AA), Dulal Chandra Pradhan (Sambalpur DAA), Tareni Mohapatra (Boudh DAA), Pruthviraj Patnaik (Deogarh DAA), Sd Akmal Ali (Kendrapada DAA), Manoj Kumar Gantayat (Rayagarda DAA), Jaydev Patra (Sundargarh DAA), Duryodhan Rout (Jajpur DAA); Secretary: Asirbad Behera (Cuttack DAA); Joint-Secretaries (Three): Ashok Kumar Sahu (Ganjam DAA), Kalinga Mohapatra (Balasore DAA), Rabi Nayak (Koraput DAA); Asstistant-Secretary: Pratima Mishra (Cuttack DAA); Treasurer: Rama Chandra Dasamohapatra (Puri DAA).