GOLF
India’s Shubhankar Sharma shot a barely pedestrian one-under 71 within the third spherical to slide to Tied-Twenty sixth on the Volvo Automotive Scandinavian Blended golf event.
Sharma, who had 69-69 in his first two rounds, was wanting good at three-under by the primary eight holes with 4 birdies in opposition to one bogey.
He then discovered the water off the tee on Par-4 thirteenth and he additionally went into deep tough and at last holed for a triple bogey. A birdie on the subsequent gap, Par-3 14th was a small comfort as he slipped from T20 to T26.
Sweden’s Sebastian Söderberg continued his unbelievable kind firing a spherical of 6-under 66. He has led from spherical one, as soon as once more picked up the place he left off with back-to-back birdies on holes two and three. He birdied the sixth earlier than and the eighth to make the flip in four-under.
One other pair of back-to-back birdies on 12 and 13 was adopted by his first bogey of the week on the 14th however he rectified that with a birdie on 15 with applause from the house crowd.
He’s 21-under-par and held a eight-shot benefit.
Scotland’s Calum Hill sits in outright second place after producing a spherical of 5-under 67 to be eight pictures behind Söderberg on 13-under-par.
Three gamers are in a share of third place with Spain’s Santiago Tarrio, England’s Alice Hewson and Sweden’s Alexander Björk on 12-under-par.
The Volvo Automotive Scandinavian Blended is co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and Women European Tour, with 78 males and 78 girls competing on the identical course for one prize fund and one trophy.
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Aditi Ashok misses lower at LPGA Traditional
Two late birdies weren’t sufficient to assist Aditi Ashok make the lower on the ShopRite LPGA Traditional on the LPGA Tour.
The Bengaluru golfer, who shot 2-under 69 within the first spherical, faltered on the second day as she was 2-over after 13 holes. She birdied the sixteenth and the 18th, however did not make the ultimate spherical in windy circumstances that made scoring powerful.
She was 2-under for 2 rounds and missed the lower by one.
Jenny Shin shot a 2-under 69 and can take a one-shot lead into the ultimate spherical as she seeks her first victory since 2016.
The 31-year-old from South Korea had six birdies and 4 bogeys to submit a two-day complete of 10-under 132.
Albane Valenzuela, who’s making an attempt to change into the primary Swiss participant to win on the Tour, shot a 68 and was alone in second, a shot forward of Ssu-Chia Cheng, Narin An, Megan Khang and Wei-Ling Hsu.
Ayaka Furue, who has six top-10 finishes this yr together with a tied-sixth in final week’s U.S. Girls’s Open, was among the many group three pictures again.
Yuka Saso, who gained her second U.S. Girls’s Open title final week, missed the lower which fell at 3-under.
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ATHLETICS
Sanjivani luggage high spot in 10,000m occasion in Portland
Asian Championships bronze medallist runner Sanjivani Jadhav gained the gruelling girls’s 10,000m race on the Portland Observe Pageant Excessive-Efficiency Meet, clocking a private finest time of 32:22.77 seconds.
Portland has turned out to be a contented searching floor for the 27-year-old long-distance runner, who had completed second within the occasion final yr, registering 32:46.88 seconds, her first sub-33 mark.
One other Indian within the fray, Seema completed fifth clocking 32:55.91.
Commonwealth and Asian Video games medallist, Avinash Sable clocked 8:21.85 seconds in males’s 3000m steeplechase to complete second, although he was 10 seconds adrift of his nationwide report of 8:11.20, set on the 2022 CWG the place he had gained the silver medal.
American Kenneth Rooks, winner of the 3000m steeplechase nationwide title on the 2023 USA Out of doors Observe and Subject Championships, took the highest spot clocking 8:18.77, and coming near the meet report of 8:18.55.
Ace Indian girls’s long-distance runner Parul Chaudhary, winner of gold (5000m) and silver (3000m steeplechase) on the Hangzhou Asian Video games final yr, completed third in steeplechase, clocking 9:31.38 seconds, which was practically 16 seconds adrift from the nationwide report of 9:15.31 in her identify set in Budapest final yr.
One other Indian within the occasion, Priti, was twentieth clocking 10:12.88 seconds.
A number of Indian elite center and long-distance athletes at present coaching in Colorado are competing in Portland Observe Pageant.
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