BOXING
Thailand Open: Bartwal storms into quarterfinals
Indian boxer Pawan Bartwal stormed into the quarterfinals of the lads’s 55kg class on the 4th Thailand Open Worldwide Boxing Event with a commanding 5-0 win over Cambodia’s Sao Rangsey in Bangkok on Sunday.
Bartwal, a Nationwide Championship silver medallist, dominated the bout with superior ring craft and tactical maturity, securing his second consecutive win within the event.
Hailing from Syupuri village in Uttarakhand, Pawan began cautiously, dodging early swings and ready for his second earlier than touchdown a pointy punch to the face of his rival that set the tone.
The 26-year-old repeatedly pinned his opponent within the corners, and a superb bob-and-weave transfer halfway via the second spherical opened the door for an additional clear strike.
With tight defence and calculated aggression, he saved Rangsey on the again foot and sealed a unanimous determination.
India has fielded a 19-member squad within the prestigious event, organised underneath the aegis of the World Boxing-backed Asian physique, and that includes high boxers from China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, South Korea and hosts Thailand.
– PTI
SHOOTING
Ojasvi Thakur and champion Shambhavi Kshirsagar have been high class within the air rifle within the Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany.
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Ojasvi Thakur and champion Shambhavi Kshirsagar have been high class within the air rifle within the Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany.
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Junior World Cup: India baggage double podium end in 10M air rifle blended staff occasion
India bagged a silver and bronze within the 10M air rifle blended staff occasion on the Worldwide Taking pictures Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, on Sunday.
It was India’s second double podium end within the event in two days.
Naraen Pranav and Khyaty Chaudhary gained silver whereas Himanshu and Shambhavi Kshirsagar clinched bronze, as India’s medals tally reached double figures (two gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze) with two extra finals developing on the ultimate day on Monday.
The pair of Khyaty and Naraen shot 631.0 within the 38-team qualifying spherical to complete second and earn a shot at gold in opposition to the crack Chinese language pair of Huang Yuting (Olympic champion within the occasion, double Olympic medalist and senior air rifle world champion) and Huang Liwanlin (the junior air rifle world champion), who topped the sphere with a mixed 632.6.
The Indians fought valiantly within the remaining, levelling issues again each time the Chinese language threatened to drag away and did so proper until the top over 14 sequence of single pictures, going into the fifteenth sequence tied honourably at 14 factors apiece.
The Chinese language gained the fifteenth by 0.5 to get to 16 factors first and take gold.
Himanshu and Shambhavi, who had completed fourth in qualifying with 629.5 to make the bronze medal match, have been down 1-7 at one stage in opposition to the American pair of Griffin Lake and Elijah Spencer.
With a medal threatening to slide away, they responded with ferocity to go 13-7 up. The Individuals might win only one extra sequence because the Indians sealed it 17-9 to win comfortably in the long run.
Shambhavi and Ojasvi Thakur had completed 1-2 within the ladies’s air rifle on Saturday, to present India their first double podium end within the event.
The entice finals have been additionally slated for later within the day. Nonetheless, no Indian might be that includes within the occasion. The ladies had already completed exterior the highest six reduce whereas the lads have been additionally far under the reduce line.
– PTI
GOLF
Aditi Ashok performs one other even par spherical in Mexico
Aditi Ashok performed her third consecutive even par spherical of 72 to lie tied thirty first on the Mexico Riviera Maya Open.
The third spherical was a curler coaster as Aditi started her day on the entrance 9 selecting up birdies on the third and fifth holes earlier than she dropped the pictures with bogeys on the eighth and ninth.
On the again 9, the Indian picked up a shot on the eleventh gap solely to drop it on the twelfth, one thing she repeated on the fifteenth and sixteenth holes as she made birdie on the fifteenth and adopted it with a bogey on the sixteenth.
Aditi continues to be chasing her first high 30 end of the season, along with her greatest end being a tied thirty first on the Black Desert Championship.
Second day chief Jenny Bae continues to carry onto the lead by one shot after the third spherical.
– PTI
Danish Golf Problem: Saptak Talwar slips in third spherical
India’s Saptak Talwar endured a tricky third spherical, carding a three-over 75 to slide to tied-71st on the Danish Golf Problem on the Resort Planner Tour.
Talwar, who shot 73-69 within the first two rounds, had three birdies, 4 bogeys and a double bogey within the third spherical.
Scotsman Calum Fyfe will take a 3 stroke lead going into the ultimate spherical after carding a 4 underneath par third spherical of 68 at Bogense Golf Membership.
The Scotsman, who began the day two pictures away from Sweden’s Per Längfors, made 5 birdies and dropped one shot on transferring day to get to 17 underneath par for the event.
Denmark’s Jonathan Gøth-Rasmussen posted a six-under par 66 to maneuver into solo second.
– PTI
ATHLETICS
Sumariwalla honoured with Asian Athletics Management Gold Pin in Gumi
Adille J Sumariwalla, Vice President of World Athletics and former president of the Athletics Federation of India, was conferred with the Asian Athletics Management Gold Pin on the Asian Athletics Affiliation (AAA) Congress right here on Sunday.
The award was introduced by AAA President Basic Dahlan Al Hamad on the Congress, held forward of the Asian Athletics Championships, which begins in right here on Might 27.
Sumariwalla, who now serves because the spokesperson of AFI, was recognised for his contributions to the expansion and management of athletics within the continent.
-PTI
TENNIS
Karan Singh loses ITF remaining in Uzbekistan
Fourth seed Renta Tokuda of Japan overcame a tricky begin to beat high seed Karan Singh 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-1 within the remaining of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Sunday.
The defeat aside, it has been a commendable run by the 21-year-old Karan as he was competing in his third successive singles remaining within the final three weeks. He had gained his maiden singles title final week in Tehran, Iran.
– Kamesh Srinivasan