GOLF
PGTI Gamers Championship to start with 124 contributors
Defending champion Sachin Baisoya, Manu Gandas and Rahil Gangjee shall be in motion on the TATA Metal PGTI Gamers Championship 2024 introduced by Tollygunge Membership right here from Tuesday.
The match, providing a prize purse of INR 1 crore, will mark the beginning of the 2024 TATA Metal PGTI season. The Professional-Am occasion shall be performed on February 17.
The match will see participation of 124 gamers, together with 121 professionals and three amateurs.
Different prime gamers within the fray shall be Khalin Joshi, Aman Raj, Karan Pratap Singh, Udayan Mane, Angad Cheema, Jairaj Singh Sandhu, Harshjeet Singh Sethie, Sunhit Bishnoi and Gaurav Pratap Singh, to call a couple of.
The distinguished international names competing are Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and Okay Prabagaran, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill and Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai.
Among the many rookies participating within the occasion shall be PGTI Qualifying College winner Matias Dominguez of Chile, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Italy’s Michele Ortolani, Czechia’s Stepan Danek, South Korea’s Si In Kim, American Dominic Piccirillo and Germany’s Wenzel Krzenck.
The Kolkata-based professionals within the area are Shankar Das, Divyanshu Bajaj, Mohammad Sanju, Indrajit Bhalotia, Karan Verma and Arjun Puri. The three Kolkata-based amateurs taking part are Uzair Firdausi, Rohan Shroff and Sandeep Yadav.
– PTI
SHOOTING
India indicators off with out a medal from Rabat Shotgun World Cup
Ganemat Sekhon and Munek Battula completed twelfth within the remaining skeet blended group occasion on Monday as India ended its marketing campaign on the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Rabat, Morocco, with out a medal.
The duo shot a mixed rating of 140 after three qualification rounds every because the USA topped with 149.
A second Indian pair, Abhay Singh Sekhon and Areeba Khan shot 134 to take seventeenth place.
Italy was on the prime of the medal tally, sweeping all 4 golds on supply earlier than the skeet blended group remaining.
– PTI
PRO WRESTLING
Sangram Singh to face Pakistan’s Muhammad Saeed
Making his comeback after six years, former Commonwealth Heavyweight champion Sangram Singh will face Pakistan’s Muhammad Saeed in what would be the headline occasion of the Worldwide Professional Wrestling Championship on February 24 in Dubai.
The occasion carrying a prize purse of Rs 3-crore can have a lineup of 5 matches, together with the one that includes Sangram and Saeed.
“This sport of wrestling exemplifies gentlemanly conduct, and I purpose to encourage the youth by this occasion holding in thoughts the ideology of FIT India,” stated the 38-year-old who gained the Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship in 2015 and 2016.
“Competing in opposition to Muhammad Saeed, who’s an elite athlete in his personal proper would be the good solution to emphasize that age is not any barrier and I look ahead to an incredible battle to finish my anticipated comeback facilitated by World Skilled Wrestling Hub.”
The opposite match ups characteristic Ilias Bekbulatov (Russia), 2017 European Wrestling Champion vs Damon Kemp (USA); Andrea Carolina (Columbia), Olympian, vs Vescan Cynthia (France), Olympian; Bader Ali (UAE), Silver medallist, Arab Championship vs Mbo Isomi Aron (Congo), Gold Medalist, Video games of La Francophonie; Mimi Hristova (Bulgaria), Olympian vs Skiba Monika.
– PTI