ATHLETICS
India retains males’s particular person and crew gold in Asia-Oceania 24-hr ultra-running c’ships
Amar Singh Devanda smashed his personal nationwide file en route retaining the person gold medal and serving to the boys’s crew to complete on prime of the rostrum for the second consecutive version of the IAU 24-hr Asia-Oceania Ultrarunning Championships in Canberra, Australia.
Devanda accomplished a distance of 272.537 km within the 24-hour run to win the gold within the competitors which ended on Sunday.
He had additionally received a gold within the earlier version held in Bengaluru in 2022 by finishing a distance of 257.618 km.
Devanda rewrote his nationwide file by almost 15 km, in response to info supplied by the Athletics Federation of India.
Amongst different Indians within the fray, Ullas Narayana completed third by finishing a distance of 245.574 km whereas Saurav Ranjan was fourth with 240.137 km.
The Indian males’s crew additionally retained the gold medal with a mixed complete distance of 758.248 km.
The outcomes of the most effective three rivals from a rustic are added to the crew rankings.
The Australian crew was second with 719.560 km whereas New Zealand was third with 636.679 km.
India had received the boys’s crew gold medal in 2022 in Bengaluru with a complete distance of 738.359 km.
Within the girls’s part, Shashi Mehta was the best-placed Indian at eighth within the particular person competitors with a complete distance of 190.772 km.
The Indian girls’s crew of Mehta, Meenal Kotak and Preeti Lala completed fourth by finishing a complete distance of 527.354 km.
Australia (666.580 km) received the ladies’s crew gold, whereas New Zealand (568.401 km) and Chinese language Taipei (551.686 km) took silver and bronze respectively.
Indian girls’s crew had received silver within the 2022 version.
-PTI
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Ahlawat, Chawrasia to headline Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship
Veer Ahlawat, SSP Chawrasia and Ajeetesh Sandhu will headline a powerful discipline within the sixth version of the Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship to be held on the Noida Golf Course from April 10 to 13.
The Professional-Am occasion shall be staged on April 9. The match carries a prize purse of INR 1 crore, the TATA Metal Skilled Golf Tour of India (PGTI) and Nissan Motor India introduced on Monday.
The match will characteristic a few of the prime Indian professionals akin to 2024 Indian Open runner-up Ahlawat, Chawrasia, Sandhu, former champion Manu Gandas, Rashid Khan, Aman Raj and defending champion Gaurav Pratap Singh, in addition to different former champions Udayan Mane and Honey Baisoya.
The outstanding international names within the discipline embrace Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and Ok Prabagaran, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill in addition to rookies akin to PGTI Qualifying Faculty winner Matias Dominguez of Chile, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Italy’s Michele Ortolani and Czechia’s Stepan Danek.
The three amateurs within the discipline – Simarjeet Singh, Vinamra Anand and Raj Singh – are from the Noida Golf Course.
Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI, mentioned, “The Delhi-NCR Open has through the years emerged as an necessary cease on the PGTI because the Delhi-NCR area is likely one of the main {golfing} centres within the nation with a thriving {golfing} neighborhood.
“With a deep discipline and excellent course circumstances, we are able to anticipate a nail-biting end just like the final version of the occasion which was determined in a playoff.”
-PTI