Indian sports activities wrap, October 1: Mane leads air rifle dominance with double gold at ISSF Junior World Championships

SHOOTING

Mane leads air rifle dominance with double gold as India surges at Lima Junior Worlds

Parth Mane topped himself because the World junior champion as he gained the air rifle gold by beating Huang Liwanlin of China by 0.7 level within the World junior capturing championship in Lima, Peru.

Parth, trailing earlier than the final shot because the Chinese language had shot an ideal 10.9 to nostril forward, delivered a ten.6 final shot to safe the gold, because the Chinese language shot 9.6.

Parth together with Ajay Malik and Abhinav Shaw who additionally made the ultimate, gained the group gold for India.

The three Indian girls additionally made the ultimate, however couldn’t win a person medal. Nevertheless, Gautami Bhanot, Shambhavi Kshirsagar and Anushka Thokur gained the group gold with a world file. Gautami misplaced the race for a person medal by 0.2 level.

India was on high of the medals desk with 5 gold and three bronze. China was second with two gold and a silver.

In junior girls’s skeet, Mansi Raghuwanshi did nicely to shoot 109, regardless of an 18 within the fourth spherical, however missed the ultimate by one level. She positioned eighth.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

TENNIS

Ramkumar to face Shevchenko in first spherical of Shanghai Masters

Davis Cupper Ramkumar Ramanathan will play Alexander Shevchenko of Kazakhstan within the first spherical of Shanghai Masters tennis event on October 3.

Ramkumar who has been competing within the doubles circuit in latest weeks, gained two rounds of the qualifying occasion in singles to make the primary draw of the mega occasion.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Sirohi, Krishnav ready for AAC challenge in Japan

Four Indians will be competing in the 2024 edition of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship with three of them trying their luck for the second consecutive year in the event, which offers a handsome prize money to amateur golfers.

Krishnav Nikhil Chopraa, who played college golf in the US, will be back for a second successive year along with Vedant Sirohi and Kartik Singh, a member of the Internationals team at the junior Presidents Cup.

Rakshit Dahiya, who has had a fair amount of success on the home circuit of the Indian Golf Union, is the only debutant in the four-member team.

The 14-year-old Kartik was brimming with confidence having flown straight from Canada, where he played the Junior Presidents Cup and secured 1.5 points out of three, as he lost in the four-ball, won the foursomes, and tied the singles.

“I have played in the US, but the Junior Presidents Cup and the Junior Players before that, was amazing, and it was a great experience,” said Kartik, who won the Singapore Juniors and was third at Junior Players.

Krishnav, son of former India cricketer Nikhil Chopraa, said, “Last year, my game was not at its best, but this time, the game is shaping up well.” Established in 2009, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship is the brainchild of the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), The R&A and the Masters Tournament to develop amateur golf in the Asia-Pacific region.

The champion will receive an invitation to compete in the 2025 Masters Tournament and The 153rd Open, while the runners-up will gain a place in the Final Qualifying for The Open.

-PTI

Vizag Open: Veer Ahlawat, Manu Gandas to lead Indian challenge

Leading Indian professionals Dhruv Sheoran (2nd from left) and Shaurya
Binu (2nd from right) pose with the Vizag Open golf championship
trophy along with other officials.
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The second edition of the Vizag Open will be held at the East Point Golf Club (EPGC) here from October 2 to 5 with a total prize money of Rs 1 crore.

The leading Indian professionals participating in the event include TATA Steel PGTI Ranking leader Veer Ahlawat, Manu Gandas, Olympian Udayan Mane, Rahil Gangjee, Aman Raj, Shaurya Binu, Dhruv Sheoran and Shankar Das, to name a few.

The prominent foreign participants at the event are defending champion N. Thangaraja of Sri Lanka, another Sri Lankan K Prabagaran, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Canada’s Sukhraj Singh Gill, South Korea’s Si In Kim, Japan’s Makoto Iwasaki and American Dominic Piccirillo.

The local challenge will be led by professionals S Muthu and Rahman Mehboob Shorif and amateurs Bharath Kollapudi and G Durga Prasad.

For his part, Uttam Singh Mundy, PGTI CEO, said they were delighted to return to the East Point Golf Club for the second edition of the eagerly awaited championship.

-Team Sportstar

BASKETBALL

Champion Ernakulam off to a flying start in Kerala State Senior Basketball Championship

Defending champion Ernakulam-men was off to flying start, brushing aside Idukki 73-50, in the 68th Kerala State Senior Basketball Championship at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here on Tuesday.

Kottayam’s Noyal Jose attempts a basket against Pathanamthitta in the Kerala State senior basketball championship in Kochi on Tuesday. 
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Muhammed Shiras was the top scorer for Ernakulam with 18 points.

Meanwhile Thiruvananthapuram me-, last year’s runner-up and packed with KSEB stars, eased past Kozhikode 97-55 while Kottayam defeated Pathanamthitta 61-57.

In the women’s section, Kozhikode raced to a 110-24 victory over Kasaragod while Thrissur thrashed Kollam 76-35.

-Stan Rayan