SHOOTING
Tejaswini wins gold in ladies’s 25m pistol as India high medals tally
In a memorable present, India’s Tejaswini claimed the gold medal within the ladies’s 25m pistol occasion to assist the nation pip China and end on high of the standings within the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl on Monday.
This was the 20-year-old from Haryana’s first particular person World Cup medal, India’s eleventh of the marketing campaign and its third gold, to go along with 4 silver and bronze every.
China additionally received three gold however has simply an extra bronze in its tally.
The Indian shot 31 within the last as Alina Nestsiarovich of the Particular person Impartial Athletes (AIN) shot 29 for silver and Hungary’s Miriam Jako, 23, for the bronze medal.
Tejaswini, who started the day twenty fourth on the grid, after day one in all qualification had yielded 282 out of a doable 300 factors.
Within the second rapid-fire spherical on Monday, she shot a powerful 293, which gave her a complete of 575 and fourth place general within the 50-strong discipline.
She could be the one Indian amongst 4 individuals to make the top-eight, as Riya Shirish Thatte, the best-placed in a single day, shot a 92 in her last rapid-fire sequence to whole 569, thereby lacking out by 4 factors, whereas Miriam, a double junior European Champion, took the eighth spot.
As the ten sequence of 5 rapid-fire photographs last started, Tejawini blasted off the blocks with two successive scores of 4 and had 16-year-old Chinese language qualification topper Zhao Taotao for firm.
That neck-and-neck battle lasted until the fifth sequence when the Indian shot one other 4 to Zhao’s one, successfully placing an finish to her problem.
Tejaswini tackled the opposite challengers with outstanding calmness and consistency. It got here from Chinese language Taipei’s Cheng Yen-Ching and Miriam and eventually from Alina, however none might come shut as Tejaswini closed out clinically.
Amongst different Indians, Naamya Kapoor too shot nicely to rise as much as 18th spot with 289 on the day for a complete of 568.
Divanshi, the reigning world champion within the occasion, shot 564 to complete twenty fourth and Riya settled for the fifteenth spot general.
India has now topped 4 of the final 5 ISSF Junior competitions, together with the earlier mixed World Cup in Suhl in 2023 and the mixed Junior World Championships in Lima, Peru final yr.
-PTI
Lakshay tops nationwide shotgun choice trials
Asian Video games silver medallist Lakshay Sheoran beat Jaswinder Singh 43-41 for the highest spot in lure within the second Nationwide shotgun choice trials on the Dr. Karni Singh Vary, Tughlakabad, on Monday.
Lakshay had earlier topped qualification with 120, as he wound up with the right rating of 25 within the final two rounds.
Jungsher Virk (119), nationwide champion Shardul Vihan (118) and Rayyan Rizvi (116) have been the others to make the ultimate.
Among the distinguished shooters, Kynan Chenai (114), Vivaan Kapoor (113) and Prithviraj Tondaiman (112) didn’t make the ultimate.
In ladies’s lure, Neeru beat Aashima Ahlawat 40-39, after topping qualification with 115. Rajeshwari Kumari climbed to the third spot, forward of Addya Katyal, Preeti Rajak and Pragati Dubey.
Olympian Shagun Chowdhary shot 107 and missed the ultimate by two factors.
THE RESULTS
Entice
Males: 1. Lakshay Sheoran 43 (120); 2. Jaswinder Singh 41 (117); 3. Bhowneesh Mendiratta 33 (116).
Ladies: 1. Neeru 40 (115); 2. Aashima Ahlawat 39 (113); 3. Rajeshwari Kumari 31 (110).
Junior males: 1. Bakhtyaruddin Malek 114; 2. Tavrez Sandhu 111; 3. Udhav Rathore 110.
Junior ladies: 1. Addya Katyal 108; 2. Ananya Yaduvanshi 101; 3. Tanisska Senthilkumar 98.
-Group Sportstar
GOLF
Aditi makes final spherical push to complete in high 10 in Mexico
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok performed three beneath on the ultimate day to safe her first high 10 end of the season on the MEXICO Riviera Maya Open.
With a last spherical 69, Aditi was Tied-ninth, her greatest this season.
Beginning her last spherical on the entrance 9, Aditi picked up photographs on the third and fifth holes. On the again 9 she began with consecutive birdies on the tenth and eleventh holes earlier than she dropped these photographs on the twelfth with a double bogey.
The double bogey could be her solely tough patch through the spherical. She closed off her spherical together with her fifth birdie on the sixteenth gap.
-PTI
Saptak finishes T-Sixty fourth in Danish Problem golf
Saptak Talwar endured contrasting fortunes on the 2 sides of the Bogense Golf Membership on the Danish Golf Problem as he shot even par 72 and completed T-64 on the HotelPlanner Tour occasion in Bogense, Denmark.
Talwar began on the again 9 and had two pars earlier than selecting 5 birdies within the subsequent six holes. He completed the stretch with a bogey and had a very completely different run on the entrance facet of the course, which was his second 9.
He had 4 bogeys and no birdies and ended at even par 72.
-PTI
BOXING
Sanju, Anshul advance to semifinals of Thailand Open
Indian boxers Sanju and Anshul Gill registered convincing wins to maneuver into the semifinals because the nation’s pugilists continued their stable run on the fourth Thailand Open Worldwide Boxing Event right here on Monday.
Competing within the ladies’s 60 kg class, Sanju notched up her second straight win of the match with a clear 5-0 verdict over Indonesia’s Reka Mariana Kasibulan within the quarterfinal bout.
The Nationwide Video games bronze medallist maintained her management all through the three rounds, staying composed and exhibiting clear technical superiority to outbox her opponent and safe a spot within the final 4 stage.
Within the males’s 90+ kg division, Gill delivered a powerful efficiency towards Kazakhstan’s Daniyal Saparbay, to win by unanimous choice.
Gill stored a gentle rhythm from the beginning, combining tight protection with efficient counters to maintain the Kazakh boxer at bay. He’ll subsequent face Uzbekistan’s Rustamov Abdurakhmon within the semifinals.
Sanju and Gill’s progress added to India’s spectacular run within the match, with each boxers assuring themselves of at the very least a bronze medal end.
India have fielded a 19-member robust contingent within the match that has attracted boxers from powerhouses like China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, South Korea, and host Thailand.
-PTI
ARCHERY
Fuge wins gold
Archer Prathamesh Fuge has received the compound males’s particular person gold medal within the Veronica’s Cup World rating occasion at Kamnik, Slovenia.
Fuge, who was seventh within the qualification spherical with a complete of 706 factors, bought two byes after which shot persistently excessive scores to beat Italy’s Alessandro Motta 146-134, Romania’s Teodor Vlad 149-126, Austria’s former World champion Nico Wiener 149-147 and Asian Video games workforce gold medallist compatriot Prathamesh Jawkar 150-147 (within the semifinals).
Within the title conflict, Fuge edged previous Israel’s European youth champion Shamai Yamrom 148-148 (10*-10) by way of shoot-off by hitting nearer to the centre.
Jawkar completed fourth after getting crushed by native favorite Tim Jevsnik 147-147 (10*-10) within the bronze medal match.
-Group Sportstar