SWIMMING
India’s marketing campaign at World Swimming Championships ends
India’s forgettable marketing campaign on the Swimming World Championships got here to an finish with Shoan Ganguly’s twenty eighth place end within the males’s 400m particular person medley in Singapore on Sunday.
The 20-year-old, who entered the meet on the again of a record-breaking swimming nationals, clocked 4:30.40s as he didn’t make the eight-man remaining.
The trouble was far inferior to his ‘Greatest Indian Time’ of 4:24.64s he set on the way in which to profitable a gold on the nationals in June.
Indian swimmers endured an underwhelming run on the world meet with none of them making it previous their heats and even bettering their private finest timings.
– PTI
GOLF
Diksha slips on again 9 as Yamashita leads AIG Girls’s Open
Diksha Dagar went by a curler coaster third spherical and carded a second straight 1-over 73 that noticed her slip from T-28 to T-42 after 54 holes within the AIG Girls’s Open right here.
The 24-year-old, making her second minimize on the Open, had a spherical that included three birdies, an eagle, two bogeys and two double bogeys.
She scored properly with three birdies towards one bogey on the entrance 9 however dropped a bogey and two doubles in a span of 4 holes from the thirteenth to the sixteenth and closed the day with an eagle, her second one of many week.
With rounds of 71-73-73, she was 1-over after being two-under for the match on the finish of the entrance, and she or he appeared in sight of a top-10 at that stage. Then got here the dropped photographs on the again because it occurred on the second day.
In the meantime, Miyu Yamashita carded a two-over-par 74, however that was sufficient to remain on the prime on nine-under. It was additionally her twenty fourth birthday however the lead was trimmed down from three to at least one shot.
Yamashita gave herself a powerful search for birdie at 18 however spurned the chance to open up a two-shot benefit, as an alternative retaining the slender lead.
Takeda, like her enjoying associate, carded a 74 to provide herself floor to make up.
However she stays very a lot within the race at six-under and can know simply how rapidly conditions can change when a trophy is on the road.
-PTI
Indo-British golfer Aaron Rai stays in top-three at Wyndham Championship
Defending champion Aaron Rai shot 1-under 69 to remain within the prime three whereas Cameron Younger added a 5-under 65 to earlier rounds of 63-62 to take a five-shot lead on the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro.
Indo-British Rai, whose rounds have been 63-66-69, is 12-under and mendacity tied third alongside Chris Kirk (67) and Mac Meissner (70). Colombian Nico Echavarria is sole second after a spherical of 64, and he’s 15-under and 5 behind Younger.
On a storm-delayed second spherical within the morning, Rai had 5 birdies, three of them in a row from the thirteenth to the fifteenth, and he additionally dropped 4 bogeys.
Sahith Theegala had earlier missed the minimize whereas the opposite Indian American, Akshay Bhatia, withdrew with 5 holes to go. When play was suspended, Bhatia had no likelihood of creating the minimize.
Following the Wyndham Championship, the highest 70 gamers within the FedExCup standings will qualify for subsequent week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, the primary of three occasions within the FedExCup Playoffs.
Rai and Bhatia are assured of a begin on the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Younger, who’s chasing a maiden PGA Tour title, had 4 straight birdies on the entrance 9 and stretched his result in eight photographs at one stage Saturday earlier than a sequence of pars noticed him end 5-under 65.
-PTI
Saptak Talwar slips to 54th on Lodge Planner Tour
Indian golfer Saptak Talwar shot a second straight spherical of 1-over 72 to slide to T-54 after three rounds on the Farmfoods Scottish Problem.
Talwar, who began the week in model with a 5-under 66, added 72-72 to be 3-under for 3 rounds.
Scotsman Daniel Younger fired a 7-under 64 to take a four-stroke lead going into the ultimate day.
The Scot made 9 birdies – 4 within the first 5 holes – and two bogeys to maneuver to 18-under par for the week.
Frenchman Julien Quesne, who additionally posted 64 to maneuver to 14-under, is second.
Belgian James Meyer de Beco, German Marc Hammer, Scots David Regulation and Euan Walker and Denmark’s Jonathan Gøth-Rasmussen are 5 photographs again on 13 below par.
-PTI
WRESTLING
World U-17 wrestling championship: Lacky wins silver
Lacky, the Asian under-17 champion, took the silver medal after being overwhelmed 6-4 by European champion Magomedrasul Omarov within the freestyle 110kg remaining on the World under-17 wrestling championships in Athens.
India stands to get one other freestyle medal in 60kg.
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BOXING
Shivam, Mausam advance U19 Asian Boxing Championships
India’s Shivam and Mausam Suhag registered contrasting victories to advance of their respective weight classes on the U19 Asian Boxing Championships in Bangkok on Sunday.
Within the males’s 55kg class, Shivam dominated all of the three rounds towards Turkmenistan’s Bezirgen Annayev to earn a unanimous verdict.
Later within the day, Mausam confirmed resilience below strain from Kazakhstan’s Nurkabyluly Mukhit within the 65 kg class to carve out a 3:2 win.
Nonetheless, the Indian contingent couldn’t make it an ideal day within the U19 age group as Shubham suffered a 0:5 loss towards Kazakhstan’s Tortubek Adilet within the 60kg bout.
– PTI