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Tent Pegging Championship

Colonel Rajpurohit of ASC Centre and College, Bangalore will lead the six-member Indian contingent in the first-ever World Tent Pegging Championship 2007 that will be held at East London, South Africa from April 23-29.

The other team members are Lt Col HR Sunil, Havildar Major Jitender (ASC Centre and College), Subedar Shish Ram (ASC), HC Jaswinder and CT Nihal Singh (BSF).

The other countries taking part in the event are USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa.

Tent pegging is a horse riding game of speed and accuracy where a distance of 100 metres is to be covered in less than 7.5 seconds and the horse rider has to aim and remove a 4-6 cm wide cardboard peg from the ground with a lance or sword.

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