ATHLETICS
Muralidharan Sinimol, Mansi Mohite emerge South Asian triathlon champions
Adarsh Muralidharan Nair Sinimol (01:02:03) and Mansi Mohite (01:07.53) emerged as the lads’s and girls’s champions respectively within the South Asian Triathlon Championships held concurrently with the Asia Triathlon Cup in Pokhara, Nepal on Saturday.
Koushik Vinayak Malandkar (01:03:26) was second behind compatriot Sinimol within the regional championships, whereas Sai Lohitaksh Kd (01:07:20) and Krishiv Patel (01:07:23) completed as the highest two within the South Asian males’s junior class and Durvisha Pawar (01:11:55) and Prerana Sravan Kumar (01:14:57) as one and two within the South Asian ladies’s junior class.
-Group Sportstar
BOXING
Aryan, Jitesh make profitable begin at Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championship
Aryan (51kg) and Jitesh (54kg) gained their respective contests to make sure a profitable begin for India on the opening day of the ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships right here on Saturday.
Aryan defeated South Kora’s Jo Hyeon Woo and Jitesh obtained the higher of Chen Yu Chen from Chinese language Taipei, to emerge winners by equivalent margins of 5-0.
Whereas different boxers in Jatin (57kg), Sagar Jakhar (60kg) and Yashwardhan Singh (63.5kg) are in line to take the ring in a while, Jadumani Singh M (51kg), Akash Gorkha (60kg), Ajay Kumar (63.5kg) and Ankush (71kg) will start their marketing campaign in U-22 class on Sunday.
Asian Video games bronze medallist Preeti (54kg) will begin her journey in opposition to Uzbekistan’s Uktamova Nigina within the ladies’s U-22 class on Tuesday.
Preeti has already booked a spot for herself within the Paris Olympics.
The Boxing Federation of India has despatched a 50-member Indian squad for this event, which has greater than 390 boxers in fray from 24 completely different nations competing in 25 weight classes.
The Youth and U-22 finals can be organised on Might 6 and seven.
TENNIS
Karthik, Prathima clinch Nationwide Wheelchair Championship titles
Second seed Prathima Rao beat prime seed KP Shilpa 7-5, 2-6, [10-5] to clinch the ladies’s title within the second Nationwide Wheelchair Tennis Championship on the DLTA Complicated on Saturday.
Karthik Karunakaran and Prathima Rao, the nationwide wheelchair tennis champions in Delhi on Saturday.
| Picture Credit score:
Kamesh Srinivasan
Karthik Karunakaran and Prathima Rao, the nationwide wheelchair tennis champions in Delhi on Saturday.
| Picture Credit score:
Kamesh Srinivasan
It was a double crown for Prathima, as she had gained the doubles title in partnership with KP Shilpa, beating the opposite two groups with out dropping a sport within the spherical robin format.
Prime seed Karthik Karunakaran gained the lads’s title, beating second seed Shekar Veeraswamy 6-3, 4-6, [10-6]. Shekar gained the doubles title in partnership with Balachandar Subramanian.
The outcomes (finals):
Males: Karthik Karunakaran bt Shekar Veeraswamy 3-6, 6-1, [10-7]. Doubles: Balachandar Subramanian & Shekar Veeraswamy bt M Durai and Karthik Karunakaran 6-0, 6-2. Ladies: Prathima Rao bt KP Shilpa 7-5, 2-6, [10-5].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SQUASH
Suraj Kumar Chand, Anahat Singh emerge victorious in PSA Hamdard Squashters
India’s Suraj Kumar Chand and his precociously-talented compatriot Anahat Singh emerged as champions within the Hamdard Squashters Northern Slam, a USD 3000 PSA squash occasion in New Delhi on Saturday.
Second-seeded Chand edged out Sri Lankan prime seed Ravindu Laksiri 3-2 (11-13, 11-5, 7-11, 11-9, 11-3) within the males’s ultimate, whereas top-seeded Anahat brushed apart Korean eighth-seed Hwayeong Eum in straight video games 11-6, 11-4, 11-5 within the ladies’s title spherical.
It was world No 179 Chand’s maiden PSA title and world No 118 Anahat’s second PSA crown.
-Group Sportstar