HANDBALL
Asian Ladies’s Handball Championship 2024: India begins marketing campaign in opposition to Hong Kong
Host India will aspire to play its greatest within the twentieth Asian ladies’s handball championship to be performed on the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi from Tuesday when it opens its marketing campaign in opposition to Hong Kong at 6 pm IST.
The group had a coaching camp on the SAI Centre in Gandhinagar, and exuded confidence to reveal its enchancment from the final version when it had positioned sixth.
The enormous of world handball, 16-time champion Korea, which has been topped the Olympic champion twice, will lead the marketing campaign together with different outstanding groups within the area in Japan and Kazakhstan.
India has been clubbed with Japan, Hong Kong and Iran within the league section. The opposite group has Korea, Kazakhstan, China and Singapore.
The highest-two groups from every of the 2 teams will qualify for the semifinals. The highest 4 groups make the World Championship subsequent 12 months.
“The event means loads for our gamers. They’re prepared to present it their all,”, stated the coach of the Indian group, Sachin Chaudhary. The coach identified that the group had a preparatory stint on the SAI Centre in Gandhinagar, when all efforts have been made to unite the gamers as a cohesive unit.
Doordarshan will broadcast the event.
India squad
Bhawana, Mitali Sharma, Manika Pal, Nina Shil, Shalini Thakur, Priyanka, Diksha Kumari, Sushma, Sonika.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Snigdha knocks out third seed in ITF junior tourney
Snigdha Kanta knocked out third seed Sara Oliveriusova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4 within the ladies first spherical of the ITF junior tennis event on the Deccan Gymkhana on Monday.
Within the boys part, Shanker Heisnam bought previous fourth seed Roshan Santhosh, because the latter retired halfway by way of the second set.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Below-18 boys: Samarth Sahita bt Kunanan Pantaratorn (Tha) 7-6(5), 6-3; Vihaan Reddy (USA) bt Om Patel 6-3, 6-2; Egor Shcherbakov bt Tavish Pahwa 7-5, 6-2; Cody Atkinson (Nzl) bt Swaraaj Dhamdhere 6-3, 6-3; Izyan Ahmad (USA) bt Pratyaksh 6-3, 6-3; Sehaj Singh Pawar bt Taisei Hata (Jpn) 6-4, 6-1; Aarjun Pandit bt Maximus Zavier Wong (Sgp) 7-5, 6-4; Snir Morag (Isr) bt Sriniketh Kannan 6-3, 2-1 (retired); Shanker Heisnam bt Roshan Santhosh (USA) 6-3, 3-0 (retired); Kandhavel Mahalingam bt Kanata Ozaki (Jpn) 7-6(3), 6-2; Alan Aiukhanov bt Aradhya Kshitij 6-2, 6-4.
Below-18 ladies: Alexandra Bayuschenko (Blr) bt Prisha Shinde 6-4, 1-6, 6-4; Parthsarthi Mundhe bt Priyanka Rana (USA) 7-6(2), 7-5; Yasaman Yazdani (Iri) bt Anvi Punaganti 6-2, 6-3; Yuzuha Negishi (Jpn) bt Harsha Oruganti 6-1, 6-2; Laxmisiri Dandu bt Diya Ramesh 6-2, 6-4; Aishwarya Jadhav bt Malika Amirgalieva (Kaz) 7-6(3), 6-4; Nainika Bendram bt Riya Sachdeva 6-2, 6-0; Snigdha Kanta bt Sara Oliveriusova (Cze) 6-1, 6-4; Sai Janvi bt Rio Wakayama (Jpn) 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-4; Cocomi Saito (Jpn) bt Aakruti Sonkusare 6-3, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Pranavi Urs locations third in Spain
Pranavi Urs, who positioned third within the Women European Tour golf in Spain.
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Pranavi Urs, who positioned third within the Women European Tour golf in Spain.
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Pranavi Urs shot a 4-under 68 on the fourth day and positioned third with a 14-under 274, within the Spanish Open golf championship in Malaga on Sunday.
It was the perfect efficiency for Pranavi, in her maiden season on the Women European Tour (LET), as she pocketed the money prize of €42,000.
“It was a great week. It was shut till the thirteenth gap. I do know the place I can probably be and the way nicely I can play below strain. I dealt with the state of affairs fairly nicely,” stated Pranavi who rose to seventeenth on the LET Order of Benefit.
Carlota Ciganda of Spain received the title with an 18-under 170, beating Manon De Roey of Belgium by a shot. The champion received €105,000 and the second place fetched €63,000.
The outcomes: 1. Carlota Ciganda (Esp) (67,66,66,71) 270; 2. Manon De Roey (Bel) (69, 68, 66, 68) 271; 3. Pranavi Urs (66, 69, 71, 68) 274; 4. Helen Briem (Ger) (66, 69, 71, 69)275; 5T. Patricia Schmidt (Ger) (66, 72, 69, 69), Andrea Revuelta (Esp0 (71, 70, 64, 71) 276; 7T.
Agathe Sauzon (Fra) (72, 70, 69, 6), Annabel Dimmock (Eng) (70, 69, 68, 70), Pia Babnik (Slo) (67, 7, 72, 71) 277; 16T. Aditi Ashok (70, 71, 70, 70) 281; 42T. Diksha Dagar (71, 72, 69, 75) 287; 70T. Tvesa Malik (72, 75, 77, 72) 296.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ATHLETICS
MG College Championships: Manoop, Gowri take 400m gold in contrasting types
This can be a varsity that has produced star quartermilers like Olympian Anilda Thomas and Asiad relay gold medallist V.Ok. Vismaya and expectations have been excessive when the ladies’s 400m started on the forty second Mahatma Gandhi College athletics championship on the badly-damaged Municipal Stadium artificial monitor right here on Monday.
With none to push her, it was a breeze for Gowri Nandana who took the gold in 55s and the Alphonsa Faculty scholar is eager to make a mark on the larger stage.
“I’ve a private better of 54.5s and I need to deliver it all the way down to 53.5 subsequent 12 months. I need to do nicely within the Nationwide Video games, the World College Video games and in addition get into the Indian group,” stated Gowri, a former trainee of Olympian Mercy Kuttan, who’s coached by Raj Mohan at Thiruvananthapuram’s SAI-Nationwide Centre of Excellence.
The boys’s 400m was an in depth affair and St. Dominic’s M. Manoop pipped Mar Athanasius’ Saran Shaji to take the gold in 47.50s.
Heavy rain spoiled lots of the occasions this afternoon and MA Faculty’s 19-year-old J. Akshay (private greatest 7.50m), who’s coached by former Commonwealth Video games silver medallist M.A. Prajusha’s coach M.A. George, turned in a cautious efficiency to take the title with 7.29m.
Within the ladies’s 20,000m race stroll, the highest three finishers – Alphonsa’s Sandra Surendran, MA’s Asha Soman and Alphonsa’s M.P. Maneesha – bettered the five-year-old meet file and in ladies’s shot put Megha Mariyam Mathew, who received the State 81kg boxing title final week in Kannur, walked away with a straightforward gold.
The outcomes (winners solely):
Males: 100m: Ashlin Alexander (Sacred Coronary heart, Thevara) 10.60s. 400M: M. Manoop (St. Dominic’s) 47.50s. 1500M: S. Indranathan (Mar Athanasius) 3:59.58s. 5000M: Benjamin Babu (St. Berchmans) 15:36.66s. 20,000m race stroll: Jithin Raj (Mar Athanasius) 1:43:58.50s. Lengthy soar: J. Akshay (Mar Athanasius) 7.29m. Excessive soar: Ok.S. Shalbin (St. Berchmans) 1.95m. Pole vault: Alan Biju (St. Dominic’s) 4.20m. Shot put: Don Biju (Mar Athanasius) 12.08m. Discus throw: Alint Prince Ninan (St. Berchmans) 34.67m. Javelin throw: P.Ok. Praveen (St. Berchmans) 52.65m.
Ladies: 100m: V.S. Bhavika (Maharaja’s) 11.80s. 400M: Gowri Nandana (Alphonsa) 55.00s. 1500M: Shivanki (Alphonsa) 4:51.20s. 5000M: C.M. Rashi (Alphonsa) 19:03.66s. 100M hurdles: Aparna Ok. Nair (Alphonsa) 14.13s. 20,000m stroll: Sandra Surendran (Alphonsa) 1:46:36.00s MR, OR 1:54:19.50. Shot put: Megha Mariyam Mathew (Alphonsa) 12.72m. Hammer throw: Ann Mary Joseph (Alphonsa) 42.80m.
-Stan Rayan
BASKETBALL
Natl youth basketball: Haryana boys enter quarters
Haryana boys defeated Chandigarh 105-94 in a high-scoring Group-B match to make it to the quarterfinals of the Nationwide youth basketball championships on the Sabuj Sathi Indoor Stadium right here on Monday.
From Stage 1, the fourth-placed groups will play the pre-quarterfinals.
From Stage 2, Delhi girls and boys together with Telangana ladies and Maharashtra boys certified to play the pre-quarterfinals.
Choose outcomes:
Boys: Group A: Telangana 77 (Sai Dhairya Mani 19, Dhruv Boppana 14, Aadvik Reddy 13, Reyhan Ellore 10) bt Tamil Nadu 57 (Yadesh Kumar 15, Aakash 11, Sujeeth U.S. 10); Group B: Haryana 105 (Veer Singh 35, Chirag 20, Ajay 17) bt Chandigarh 94 (Yash 34, Sachin 22, Nikhil 21), Rajasthan 101 (Piyush Choudhary 27, Mohammed Raza Khan 25, Bupendra Singh Rathore 23) bt Kerala 75 (Abhishek Pradeep 25, Millen Jose Mathew 22, Niajal Jacob 11, Kannan Sugunan 11), Uttar Pradesh 69 (Sumit Kumar Singh 10, Sujai Dhariwal 10) bt Punjab 59 (Ajitinder Singh 15, Destiny Jeet Singh 12, Manjot Singh 10).
Women: Group A: Rajasthan 62 (Kritika Khatik 22, Jaya Dadhich 16, Divyanshi Sharma 12) bt Madhya Pradesh 57 (Ayushi Yadav 16, Vaishnavi Gupta 13, Bhoomi Prakash 10), Tamil Nadu 80 (Jefrin A. 18, Sumitra Devi 15, Angelina Arun George 15, Bhavani P. 11) bt Maharashtra 47 (Reva Kulkarni 13), Uttar Pradesh 67 (Anshika Sharma 32, Pragya Singh 14) bt Rajasthan 65 (Samiksha Kesvani 16, Kritika Khatik 12, Jaya Dadich 11, Divyanshi Sharma 10); Group B: Karnataka 92 (Adi Subramanian 23, Nidhi Umesh 22, Nilaaya Reddy 12) bt Gujarat 37 (Dinal Vith Thani 10, Vidhiben Baria 10), Punjab 71 (Gagandeep Kaur 22, Samira Singh 14, Gurasees Kaur 14, Ok. Vanshika 13) bt Haryana 28. Maharashtra 57 (Reya Kulkarni 25, Pranitha 17) bt Uttar Pradesh 35 (Pragya Singh 10).
Group B: Kerala 69 (Liya Maria 23 , Arthika 10, Diya Biju 10) bt Haryana 50 (Gariha 11, Ada Khajana 11).
-Y.B Sarangi
HOCKEY
Yuvraj Walmiki, Pardeep Singh information RSPB to 5-3 victory over Comptroller and Auditor Common XI
Yuvraj Walmiki and Pardeep Singh scored two objectives every to assist Railway Sports activities Promotion Board (RSPB) to a 5-3 victory over Comptroller and Auditor Common XI in a quarterfinal league match of the SNBP sixtieth Nehru hockey event on the Shivaji Stadium on Monday.
RSPB confirmed its place within the semifinals.
The outcomes (quarterfinal league):
Military XI 5 (Budu Tuti 2, Gaurav Bhagtani, Sunil Xaxa, Jobanpreet Singh) bt Central Board of Direct Taxes 0.
RSPB 5 (Yuvraj Walmiki 2, Pardeep Singh 2, Surdarshan Singh) bt Comptroller and Auditor Common XI 3 (NM Surya 2, Parmod).
-Kamesh Srinivasan