Indian sports activities wrap, April 29: Brijesh, Sagar, Sumit affirm medals at Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championship

BOXING

Brijesh, Sagar and Sumit affirm medals for India at ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024

Indian pugilists Brijesh Tamta, Sagar Jakhar and Sumit registered victories to enter the semifinals and warranted themselves of medals within the youth class of ASBC Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Monday.

Brijesh (48kg) began the day for India in a hard-fought bout towards Uzbekistan’s Sabirov Sayfiddin, with each boxers successful one spherical every because it all got here right down to the third spherical which the teen from India gained 4-3 after the bout was reviewed.

Sagar Jakhar (60kg) and Sumit (67kg) clinched an identical 5-0 victories towards Thailand’s Kalaseeram Thanaphansakon and Korea’s Hong Search engine marketing Jin respectively. Jitesh (54kg) misplaced 0-5 towards Kazakhstan’s Tulebek Nurassyl.

With these three medals, India is now assured of eight medals within the youth class as 5 girls boxers Annu (48kg), Parthavi Grewal (66kg), Nikita Chand (60kg), Khushi Pooniya (81kg) and Nirjhara Bana (+81kg) will begin their campaigns within the semifinals.

Rahul Kundu (75kg), Hemant Sangwan (86kg) and Lakshay Rathi (+92kg), and Laxmi (50kg), Tamanna (54kg), Yatri Patel (57kg), Shrusthi Sathe (63kg) will play their youth quarterfinals later as we speak.

On Tuesday, Asian Video games bronze medallist Preeti (54kg), who has already certified for the Paris Olympics, will kickstart her problem towards Uzbekistan’s Uktamova Nigina within the girls’s U-22 class together with Tammana (50kg) and Priyanka (60kg).

In the meantime, Vishvanath Suresh (48kg), Akash Gorkha (60kg), Preet Malik (67kg), Kunal (75kg), Jugnoo (86kg) and Rhythm (+92kg) will likely be in motion within the males’s U-22 class.

The finals for the youth and U-22 class will likely be performed on Could 6 and seven respectively.

– Workforce Sportstar

GOLF

Diksha strikes into High-10 of LET Order of Benefit after South African Open efficiency

Indian golfer Diksha Dagar moved into the High 10 of the Girls European Tour’s Order of Benefit after one other creditable end on the South African Girls’s Open.

Diksha is now ninth on the LET, with 455 factors. England’s Bronte Regulation is on prime, adopted by this week’s winner Manon de Roey of Belgium.

Pranavi Urs is the following greatest Indian at twenty fifth place in her rookie 12 months.

Diksha is a close to certainty for the upcoming Paris Olympic Video games, which will likely be her second one, after a debut look in Tokyo. She’s going to play alongside Aditi Ashok, who will play her third Olympic Video games.

Diksha, who was third on the LET in 2023 with one win in Tipsport Czech Republic and High 3 finishes in Amundi German Masters and the Hero Girls’s Indian Open, has now had three High-10s in 2024.

With the LET taking a break this week, Diksha will likely be again in motion on the Aramco Girls Korea subsequent week together with Pranavi Urs.

Within the subsequent LET occasion, the Indians in motion are Diksha, Pranavi and Vani Kapoor.

Within the occasion after that, the Amundi German Masters, there will likely be six Indians with Diksha, Pranavi and Vani being accompanied by Tvesa Malik. Sneha Singh and novice Avani Prashanth have additionally received invitation for the occasion.

– Workforce Sportstar

CARROM

Asian carrom championship: Aakankssha, Shainy wins womens’s doubles closing

Aakanksha Kadam and Shainy Sebastian.
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Aakankssha Kadam and Shainy Sebastian stunned a number of world champion Rashmi Kumari and Ok Nagajothi 21-25, 25-17, 25-17 within the girls’s doubles closing of the sixth Asian carrom championship in Maldives.

The lads’s doubles title was additionally gained by the Indian pair of Ok Srinivas and Mohd. Ghufran, who beat the Maldives duo of Ismail Azmeen and Hassan Nazim 25-15, 25-16 within the closing.

Earlier, within the open swiss league, that includes 80 gamers from seven international locations, together with Korea and Singapore, Prashant Extra gained the title.

– Workforce Sportstar