ARCHERY
Asia Cup Stage I: India tops medal desk
Indian archers claimed eight medals, together with 5 gold, to complete atop the medals desk on the Asia Cup Stage-1 in Bangkok on Saturday.
Vishnu Choudhary secured gold medals in recurve males’s particular person, beating compatriot Rahul 6-2 within the closing, and group occasions. He additionally bagged a silver with girls’s particular person champion Basanti Mahato within the combined group occasion.
Kushal Dalal captured two gold medals, in males’s particular person and group, within the compound division.
RESULTS
Recurve: Particular person: Males: Gold medal match: Vishnu Choudhary bt Rahul 6-2; Girls: Gold: Basanti Mahato bt Fong You Jhu (Tpe) 6-4; Workforce: Males: Gold: India (Vishnu Choudhary, Goldi Mishra, Rahul) bt China (Gu Shen, Yang Jiabing, Zhang Chengming) 5-1; Combined: Gold: China (Wu Jiaxin, Zhang Chengming) bt India (Basanti Mahato, Vishnu Choudhary) 6-0.
Compound: Particular person: Males: Gold: Kushal Dalal bt Choi Yonghee (Kor) 148-144; Workforce: Males: Gold: India (Kushal Dalal, Manav Jadhao, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru) bt Malaysia (Mohd. Juwaidi Mazuki, Mohd. Syafiq Ariffin, Alang Muhammad Ghazalli) 237-233; Girls: Bronze: India (Avneet Kaur, Madhuravarshini Muruganatham, Chikitha Taniparthi) bt Iran (Bita Asheghzadeh, Armin Pakzad) 232-232 (shoot-off: 28*-28, shot nearer to the goal).
– Workforce Sportstar
GOLF
Kenya Open: Ahlawat makes reduce with birdie end
Veer Ahlawat’s rounds of 70-72 gave him an even-par complete, permitting him to make a last-minute reduce on the Magical Kenya Open.
Ahlawat began his second spherical very early after which needed to await the remainder of the afternoon to know whether or not he had made the reduce.
The 28-year-old rookie, who shot a 1-under 71 within the first spherical after a disappointing end with three bogeys in his final 4 holes, was gazing a missed reduce when he got here to the seventeenth tee within the second spherical.
This time, Ahlawat produced two nice birdies on the closing holes to maneuver from 3-over to 1-over and provides himself an opportunity to make the reduce.
In the meantime, fellow Indian Shubhankar Sharma endured one other powerful week as he carded 71-72 and missed the reduce by one.
Ahlawat, who was runner-up on the Indian Open final yr, bogeyed the second and the seventh and acquired his first birdie on the eighth.
He dropped two extra pictures on the 14th and sixteenth and was 2-over for the event when he got here to the seventeenth tee.
He birdied the seventeenth and added yet another on the 18th, which he had eagled a day earlier.
That helped him squeeze contained in the reduce line and earn an opportunity at bettering his place over the weekend.
Ahlawat, who had made two cuts and missed two in 4 begins on the DP World Tour in 2025, was making his third reduce.
He was T-27 in Ras Al Khaimah and T-49 in Bahrain and missed cuts in Dubai and Qatar.
Ahlawat earned taking part in rights on DPWT after topping the Indian PGTI Tour’s Order of Benefit in 2024.
The PGTI and the DPWT have an association by which the highest Indian OOM will get a card to the DPWT, and that is the third yr of the alliance.
Sharma, nevertheless, has missed 4 cuts in a row on the DP World Tour, and his solely reduce of 2025 got here on the Worldwide Sequence in India.
John Parry produced a back-nine birdie blitz in his spherical of 5-under 66 to guide by one shot on the midway stage.
Parry, who received the AfrAsia Financial institution Mauritius Open in December, began the day alongside Benjamin Hebert on the high of the leaderboard.
Herbert completed early with 66 and was 13-under until Parry (63-65) overtook him to get to 14-under.
A 15-year-old Kenyan newbie golfer, Shashwat Harish, whose dad and mom are of Indian origin, was thrilled with an opportunity to play within the occasion.
Sharma adopted him within the second spherical, however Harish shot 74-72 and missed the reduce. But he took again plenty of expertise.
The in-form Englishman, Parry, had six birdies and no bogeys in a flawless 65. He’s bogey free for 2 rounds regardless of swirling winds at Muthaiga Golf Membership.
Hebert had led for a lot of the day on 13 beneath after ending his second spherical with a hat-trick of birdies, together with his spectacular chip-in on the sixteenth.
He sat alone in second after signing for a 66, which included six birdies and a single bogey.
South African Jayden Schaper was one other 4 pictures additional again on 9 beneath after closing his 69 with an eagle.
– PTI