ATHLETICS
Supriya wins discus gold in 98th Inter-School athletics meet
Supriya Attre of Girl Shri Ram School got here up with a formidable throw of 45.63 metres to clinch the discus gold within the 98th Inter-School athletics meet on the Delhi College Polo floor on Thursday.
Amaty Sharma (10.93) and Tanisha Raghav (12.49) gained the boys’s and girls’s 100 metres occasion.
The outcomes
Males: 100m: Amaty Sharma 10.93; 2. Anshu Trivedi 11.25; 800m: 1.Anish Nehra 1:56.63; 2. Mayank Yadav 2:00.27.
Girls: 100m 1. Tanisha Raghav 12.49; 2. Megha Rawat 12.68; 800m: 1. Prabhiti Rao 2:22.98; 2. Anita Choudhary 2:39.07; 5000m: 1. Riya Pandey 20:17.48; 2. Neha 20:23.89; Javelin throw: 1. Disha Sharma 27.78; 2. Tannu Tiwari 25.17; Discus throw: 1. Supriya Attre 45.63; 2. Priyanka Yadav 32.32.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Amandeep, Jasmine share lead after two days at WPGT
Amandeep Drall fired pars on her final 10 holes to tally a second straight 2-under 70, taking a share of the lead within the fifteenth and last leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour right here on Thursday.
Amandeep, who has a win this season, had two bogeys in her opening 4 holes, however three birdies between the fifth and the eighth ensured a laudable spherical of 70, shifting to 4-under 140 for 2 days.
Jasmine Shekar, who bogeyed twice within the opening three holes, shot 1-under 71 and was in shared lead at 4-under 140. She had 4 birdies towards three bogeys.
Sneha Singh (71) and Nayanika Sanga (73) had been tied third as Hitaashee Bakshi, the chief on the Order of Advantage, was sole fifth after playing cards of 69-73.
Hitaashee had only a bogey on the Par-3 sixteenth and parred all different 17 holes. Sneha and Nayanika had three birdies towards a bogey every.
Vidhatri Urs, one of many two gamers to have gained 3 times this season, shot 70, whereas Gaurika Bishnoi shot 73. The 2 had been tied sixth at 1-under 143.
Khushi Khanijau (71-73), Anvitha Narender (73-72) and novice Kaya Daluwatte (70-76) rounded off the highest ten.
The ultimate spherical will see a detailed battle between the highest seven gamers, inside three pictures of one another.
The lead group will comprise native star Sneha, winner of the Order of Advantage in 2023, Jasmine and Amandeep.
The course was difficult, and not one of the gamers returned with a bogey-free spherical. The reduce fell at 152, and 17 gamers made the ultimate spherical of the ultimate leg.
-PTI
SERVO Masters: Jamal Hossain takes lead after spectacular 7-under 65 on Day 2
Jamal Hossain of Bangladesh carded a formidable 7-under 65 for a complete of 11-under 133 to take lead after Spherical 2 of the IndianOil SERVO Masters right here on Thursday.
Shivendra Singh Sisodia from Gurugram shot a 66 to finish the day in second place at nine-under 135.
Mani Ram of Karnal and Milind Soni of Hyderabad had been positioned tied third at 8-under 136.
In a single day chief Amardeep Malik, former champion Honey Baisoya, Olympian Udayan Mane, C Muniyappa, Vikrant Chopra and Divyansh Dubey had been all tied in fifth place at 6-under 138.
Deven Bhumij was the one native golfer to make the reduce positioned tied twenty seventh at 1-under 143. The reduce got here down at 3-over 147 as 53 professionals made the reduce.
The 39-year-old Hossain (68-65), a four-time winner on the PGTI, began the day a shot off the lead in tied second.
Hossain had a forgettable begin, bogeying the opening gap earlier than discovering his contact as he drove the inexperienced on the Par-4 third gap, scoring his maiden birdie of the day.
Thereafter, Hossain pulled out some nice iron and wedge pictures to recurrently land it near the pins, choosing up seven extra birdies. His longest conversion of the day was a 12-footer for birdie on the fifteenth.
In the meantime, Sisodia’s (69-66) spherical featured an eagle on the eleventh, six birdies and two bogeys.
Sisodia was chipping it to perfection as he performed in for birdie on the seventeenth, additionally producing different good chips from the sting and the bunker to arrange some quick birdie putts.
-PTI
KHELO INDIA GAMES
Bihar to host 2025 KIYG
After efficiently conducting the ladies’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey match at Rajgir, Bihar will host the Khelo India Youth Video games (KIYG) 2025 in April subsequent yr.
For the primary time, the Khelo India Para Video games (KIPG), which was organized for the primary time in Delhi final yr, can even be held in the identical state. There might be a niche of 10 to fifteen days between KIYG and KIPG
– Workforce Sportstar
Marathon
Chennai Half Marathon receives over 6,000 entries
The sixth version of the Chennai Half Marathon will see participation from greater than 6,000 athletes.
The occasion on Sunday might be flagged off from Olcott Memorial Excessive Faculty Floor in Besant Nagar and journey via the scenic routes of the town.
The runners will compete in three distinct classes — Half Marathon (21.1k), Timed 10K and 5K Run.
The Half Marathon is scheduled to start at 4.30 am, adopted by the Timed 10k at 5:45 am and the 5k run at 7:00 am.
Additionally, a bunch of runners might be collaborating to advertise girls’s well being, security and schooling.
A staff of visually impaired runners, supported by the Information Runner India group, might be operating the Half Marathon and 10K.
“The Chennai Half Marathon has grown in leaps and bounds from its first version in 2017 and has seen a continuing and regular enhance in participation yearly,” stated Race Director Nagaraj Adiga.
– PTI
Tennis
Arjun reaches ITF junior tourney semis
Arjun Rathi beat fourth seed Shanker Heisnam 6-3, 6-3 within the boys quarterfinals of the ITF junior tennis match on the Assam Tennis Advanced on Thursday.
Arjun will play sixth seed Praneel Sharma within the semifinals. Izyan Ahmad beat Kandhavel Mahalingam to arrange the opposite semifinal towards prime seed Sehaj Singh Pawar.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Beneath-18 boys: Sehaj Singh Pawar bt Om Patel 6-1, 7-5; Izyan Ahmad bt Kandhavel Mahalingam 7-5, 6-3; Arjun Rathi bt Shanker Heisnam 6-3, 6-3; Praneel Sharma bt Ojas Mehlawat 6-3, 6-4.
Beneath-18 women: Rishitha Basireddy bt Mahika Khanna 6-0, 6-0; Aishwarya Jadhav bt Snigdha Kanta 6-3, 6 3; Shaivi Dalal bt Kashvi Sunil 7-6(9), 6-4; Priyanka Rana (USA) bt Apara Khandare 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Vaidehi Chaudhari beats third seed in Australia
Qualifier Vaidehi Chaudhari beat third seed Jia-Jing Lu of China 6-1, 6-2 within the first spherical of the USD 40,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Caloundra, Australia, on Thursday.
Vaidehi additionally made the quarterfinals in partnership with Shrivalli Bhamidipaty.
The outcomes:
$82,000 Challenger, Yokohama, Japan
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Benjamin Hassan (Lbn) & Saketh Myneni bt Ryuki Matsuda & Rio Noguchi (Jpn) 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Luanda, Angola
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Gregor Ramskogler (Aut) bt Parth Aggarwal 6-3, 6-2; Robert Strombachs (Ger) bt Yash Yadav 6-0, 6-0; First spherical: Chirag Duhan bt lUke Cripps (Aus) 6-7(5), 2-0 (retired); Victor Pagotto (Bra) bt Rishabdev Raman 6-4, 6-4; Yash Yadav bt Breno Braga (Bra) 6-3, 5-7, 7-5; Parth Aggarwal bt Patrik Oplustil (Cze) 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.
$40,000 ITF girls, Caloundra, Australia
Singles (first spherical): Choi Onyu (Kor) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Jia-Jing Lu (Chn) 6-1, 6-2; Ankita Raina bt Lily Taylor (Aus) 6-3, 6-3
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Gabriella Da Silva Fick & Alana Parnaby (Aus) 6-4, 7-6(3).
$25,000 ITF girls, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Singles (second spherical): Victoria Rodriguez (Mex) bt Saumya Vig 6-0, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Mathilde Lollia (Fra) bt Zeel Desai 6-3, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan