EQUESTRIAN
Junior Nationwide Equestrian C’ship: Lakdawala triumphs in Younger Rider showjumping
Chennai’s Ali Hatim Lakdawala, using Leonardo Van Holli, clocked a powerful 33.31 seconds to clinch the Younger Rider Showjumping champion title on the Junior Nationwide Equestrian Championship right here.
Siddhant Jaiswal, Jaiveer Verma, and Geethika Tikkisetty secured first place with a cumulative rating of 178.22 within the Younger Rider (age group 18-21) crew dressage occasion on the Military Polo & Driving Membership.
Lakdawala edged previous AEF Cup CSIY-B silver medallist E Surya Aditya, astride Calimero (37.22 seconds), whereas AEF Cup CSIJ-B silver medallist Geethika Tikkisetty, using Brogonenn Saint Paer, secured third place with a time of 40.93 seconds within the present leaping class.
Within the Kids, I (age group 12-14) crew dressage occasion, the quartet of Inaara Mehta Luthria, Ananya Sajit Haridas, Subh Chowdhari, and Pranav Deepak emerged victorious with 226.18 factors.
Divyaraj Singh Rathore, Jaiwant Nawle, Aradhy Singh Chouhan and Sresh Raju Mantena (210.24 factors) secured the silver medal, whereas Puneet Jhakhar, Swara Tihrani, Zara Swittens, and Agastya Sharma (206.26 factors) completed third.
The tent pegging occasion had Dhoni Om Chand, using Mrignani, take first place within the lance class with 51.5 factors, profitable the tie-breaker towards Mohammad Alhamad Chishty astride Rani. Sahil (Sweet) completed third with 47.5 factors.
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CRICKET
Gamers observe a minute’s silence in reminiscence of former Ranji participant Suvojit Banerjee
Gamers of First Division golf equipment mourned the loss of life of former Ranji Trophy participant Suvojit Banerjee, 39, and noticed a minute’s silence earlier than the beginning of the matches at completely different venues in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Banerjee, who handed away on Monday, made his debut for Bengal in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match towards Odisha in November 2014. He performed three Ranji Trophy and 4 Listing-A matches and captained East Bengal.
-Group Sportstar
BASKETBALL
SRM College wins South Zone inter-university girls’s championship
SRM College, winner of the South Zone inter-university girls’s championship held on the Assumption Faculty in Changanassery
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STAN RAYAN
SRM College, winner of the South Zone inter-university girls’s championship held on the Assumption Faculty in Changanassery
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STAN RAYAN
A. Nitika and S. Harithra persistently got here up with spectacular performances as Chennai’s SRM College received the South Zone inter-university girls’s basketball championship on the Assumption Faculty in Changanassery on Tuesday.
SRM completed with an all-win document within the four-team league section and emerged champion whereas the host Mahatma Gandhi College (Kottayam) completed runner-up with two wins. SRM’s Nitika and Harithra led the scoring in all three league matches. Calicut (one win) was third and Bengaluru’s Christ was fourth.
All of the 4 groups certified for the all-India varsities championship which might be held at Kurukshetra later.
RESULTS (Semifinal league)
SRM, Chennai 65 (A. Nitika 23, S. Harithra 18) bt Calicut 62 (Lakshmi Raj 16, Ashlin Shiju 14); SRM 80 (Nitika 26, Harithra 25, Sona Resalin 10) bt MG, Kottayam 71 (Irin Elsa John 25, Akshaya Philip 16, Chinnu Koshy 13, Sandra Francis 12 ); SRM 63 (Harithra 23, Nitika 18) bt Christ, Bengaluru 57 (Gunjan Nikhil Mantri 14, Prathibha Shetty 10).
MG 77 (Akshaya Philip 17, Irin Elsa John 13, E.S. Anakamol 11, S.S. Krishna Priya 10) bt Calicut 45 (Aleena Jaison 11). MG, Kottayam 41 bt Christ 25; Calicut 31 (Aleena Jaison 11) bt Christ 25.
-Stan Rayan
TENNIS
ITF Girls, Ahmedabad: Humera, Maaya attain second spherical
Humera Baharmus beat sixth seed Tanisha Kashyap 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 within the first spherical of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis event on the Ace Academy in Palodiya, Ahmedabad, on Tuesday.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Humera will play Jizel Fernandes of Britain.
Maaya Rajeshwaran beat wild card Khushali Modi 6-2, 6-3 to arrange a second-round match towards eighth seed Anri Nagata of Japan. Maya additionally made the doubles quarterfinals with Lakshmi Prabha.
RESULTS
Singles (first spherical): Ekaterina Yashina bt Prathyusha Rachapudi 6-3, 6-0; Paavanii Paathak bt Nidhitra Rajmohan 6-3, 6-3; Soha Sadiq bt Kashish Bhatia 4-0 (retired); Akanksha Nitture bt Priyanshi Bhandari 6-2, 6-2; Honoka Kobayashi (Jpn) bt Yashaswini Panwar 7-5, 6-0; Anjali Rathi bt Chevika Sama 6-2, 5-7, 6-1; Valeria Monko bt Madhurima Sawant 6-1, 6-2; Elena Jamshidi (Den) bt Abhilasha Bista (Nep) 6-0, 6-1; Anri Nagata (Jpn) bt Sahira Singh 6-2, 6-2; Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Khushali Modi 6-2, 6-3; Lakshmi Prabha bt Sonal Patil 1-6, 6-3, 6-1; Vaishnavi Adkar bt Priyanka Rana (USA) 6-1, 6-0; Humera Baharmus bt Tanisha Kashyap 2-6, 6-0, 6-3; Jizel Fernandes (GBR) bt Maria Mikhailova 6-2, 6-2; Pooja Ingale bt Mirudhula Palanivel 6-2, 6-2; Zeel Desai bt Saumya Ronde 6-2, 6-0.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Lakshmi Prabha & Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Humera Baharmus & Diva Bhatia 7-6(2), 6-3; Vaishnavi Adkar & Pooja Ingale bt Abhaya Vemuri & Apurva Vemuri 6-4, 7-6(5)
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MOTORSPORT
Hero MotoSports names Cornejo as new rider, reveals 3-member aspect for Dakar
Hero MotoSports Group Rally on Tuesday named younger Chilean rider Nacho Cornejo as its new recruit, whereas asserting a three-member crew for the Dakar Rally 2025.
Cornejo will crew up with Sebastian Buhler and 2024 FIM World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC) winner Ross Department.
This would be the crew’s ninth look on the earth’s hardest race, scheduled to happen in Saudi Arabia from January 3 to 17.
It was a memorable 2024 for the younger crew because it secured an general second end.
Within the 12-stage 2024 version, Department led the race for 4 days and remained in second spot for eight days, finally ending second general, making Hero MotoCorp the primary Indian producer crew to make it to the Dakar podium.
For Botswana’s Department, this might be his third Dakar outing with the crew.
Buhler, a German residing in Portugal, has given constant performances this 12 months, marking his greatest achievement by securing his first FIM World Championship race podium at Rally Raid Portugal, the place he completed second general.
On the 2024 Dakar Rally, Buhler got here near profitable his first Dakar stage.
Younger Chilean rider Cornejo boasts of a powerful Dakar document, together with a fourth-place end in 2020 and 9 stage wins.
The forty seventh Dakar Rally will kick off in Bisha, that includes a prologue and 12 levels spanning 7,700 km throughout the huge desert. For the primary time, 5 levels could have separate programs for FIM and FIA automobiles, protecting 45 per cent of the timed distance.
Dakar 2025 may also be the opening race of the fourth version of the World Rally Raid Championship (W2RC).
Hero MotoSports is a Rally GP-class participant on the W2RC 2025 and can attend its 5 rounds beginning with the Dakar, adopted by the Abu Dhabi Desert Problem (February), South African Safari Rally (Might), BP Final Rally Raid in Portugal (September), and eventually closing the season with the Rallye du Maroc (October).
“2024 has been an unbelievable 12 months for us. Ending second at Dakar, a primary for any Indian producer, and profitable the 2024 World Championship has given us a brand new degree of respect and recognition in motorsports,” Wolfgang Fischer, the crew supervisor stated.
-PTI
WEIGHTLIFTING
Parv Chaudhary win two bronze medals in Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting C’ships
Parv Chaudhary secured two bronze medals in 96kg class to proceed India’s domination on the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships on Tuesday.
Chaudhary received the medals in clear and jerk and whole sections. He had a complete carry of 303 kg.
India thus received a 12 medals in whole, together with three gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze. In addition to, there have been 8 medals in snatch and 10 medals in clear and jerk sections.
Medals are awarded individually for snatch, clear and jerk, and whole carry in continental, World Cups and World Championships.
-PTI
ARCHERY
Dola and Rahul Banerjee indicators MoU with KIIT College
Worldwide archers Dola Banerjee and her brother Rahul Banerjee on Tuesday signed an MoU with the KIIT College, within the presence of the College’s founder Dr. Achyuta Samanta, to improve KIIT’s present archery facility in Bhubaneswar to a centre of excellence.
Grassroots outreach, holistic growth of archers, knowledgeable teaching and world class amenities are the highlights of this initiative which targets to provide archers for elite occasions such because the World College Video games and the Olympics.
-Y.B. Sarangi