BOXING
Ritika Clinches Heavyweight Gold as India Finish Asian U22 Boxing Championships with 13 Medals; End 2nd General in U19, 4th in U22
Ritika’s gold within the ladies’s 80+kg class capped off India’s marketing campaign on the Asian U-19 & U-22 Boxing Championships 2025 in Bangkok, the place the group collected a complete of 27 medals throughout each age teams. The twin championships, unfold over 10 days, introduced collectively the continent’s greatest younger expertise in a aggressive take a look at for the subsequent era of boxers, the place India completed second general within the U19 standings and fourth in U22.
Rithika celebrated her gold medal along with her coaches.
Rithika celebrated her gold medal along with her coaches.
The U19 group will return dwelling with a complete of 14 medals, together with three gold, seven silver and 4 bronze medals, scoring essentially the most when it comes to absolute medal depend and had been second behind Uzbekistan (7) in golds. The U22 contingent additionally bagged 4 silver medals to conclude their marketing campaign with a complete of 13.
India had fielded a powerful contingent of 40 boxers — 20 in every age group — with an ideal mixture of confirmed champions and potential abilities who’ve impressed within the home circuit. The gamers underlined India’s rising stature as a Boxing powerhouse in Asia.
The day’s sole gold got here by way of Ritika within the ladies’s 80+kg remaining, the place she stored her composure underneath strain to beat Kazakhstan’s Assel Toktassyn. Dealing with a powerful boxer, Ritika combined warning with aggression to land some telling blows, bagging India’s fourth gold of the U-19 and U-22 Asian Boxing Championships, which had been held concurrently over the past 10 days.
Within the morning session, Yatri Patel settled for a silver after shedding to Khumorabonu Mamajonova of Uzbekistan in ladies’s 57kg, whereas Priya’s spirited battle towards Yu Tian of China within the 60kg remaining resulted in a slim 2:3 loss. Later within the day, Neeraj went down towards Shavkatjon Boltaev of Uzbekistan within the males’s 75kg remaining. On the identical time, Ishan Kataria misplaced to Khalimjon Mamasoliev of Uzbekistan within the 90+kg gold medal conflict–each securing a silver.
India’s general medal haul throughout each age teams and genders underlined the energy and depth of its youth boxing programme. Earlier this 12 months, the U-15 and U-17 squads had mixed for 43 medals on the Asian Championships, with the U-15 contingent delivering the best variety of golds within the competitors — 11 in whole — led by the ladies’ group, who swept 10 of the 15 obtainable gold medals and received each remaining they contested on the penultimate day.
-Crew Sportstar
GOLF
Ahlawat shoots underneath par to complete Tied-Twenty fifth in Scotland
Veer Ahlawat shot one-under 71 within the remaining spherical of the Nexo Championship and ended with a complete of 3-over for 4 days to complete tied Twenty fifth at Trump Worldwide Golf Hyperlinks right here.
Ahlawat, taking part in on the DP World Tour by advantage of topping the PGTI Order of Benefit final 12 months, had three birdies towards two bogeys, all on the entrance 9. He parred all 9 holes on the again 9.
It was solely the third Prime-25 end for Ahlawat, who additionally completed T-17 at Hero Indian Open and T-13 at Austrian Alpine Open.
-PTI
Bhatia hangs on for sixth, strikes into Prime-30 at FedEx Cup
Akshay Bhatia hung in for a tied-sixth place with a modest 1-under 69 within the remaining spherical as Justin Rose rallied over the past 5 holes to win the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Bhatia rode the week on his first spherical 8-under 62 and adopted up with 69-70-69 to whole 10-under and end six pictures behind Rose (67) and JJ Spaun (65) who tied on the prime after which went right into a play-off which was received by Rose.
Bhatia moved up 16 locations from his forty fifth at first of the week and it was the largest upward transfer apart from Rose, whose win moved him 21 locations from Twenty fifth to fourth.
Bhatia started in fashion with birdies on the second and the third after which managed just one extra on the ninth. He additionally dropped pictures on the seventh and the seventeenth.
However the sixth place end by Bhatia confirmed him for the second of the three play-offs. By being in top-50 he’s additionally assured of begins in any respect USD 20 million Signature occasions in 2026.
He now wants to remain on in Prime-30 to play the Tour Championship for the second straight 12 months.
Aaron Rai, the Indo-British participant, who was additionally within the Play-offs shot 67 and completed tied twenty second, but it surely didn’t transfer him from fifty fifth to inside fiftieth. He was stranded 53rd and it ended his season.
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Diksha Dagar finishes in Prime-20 in PIF London Championship
Diksha Dagar endured contrasting fortunes on the back and front nines of the ultimate spherical to complete tied Nineteenth on the PIF London Championship at Centurion Membership.
Diksha appeared to be going nice with three birdies on the entrance 9, however she gave away all these good points on the again 9 a matter of 4 holes between the eleventh and the 14th.
After rounds of 70-73-73 on the Par-73 Centurion Membership, Diksha was 3-under 216 for 3 rounds and completed Tied-Nineteenth. Diksha, continues to be twelfth on the Order of Benefit of the Women European Tour.
Two different Indians, who made the minimize, Aditi Ashok (72) and Pranavi Urs (75) had been additional down the leaderboard. Aditi (73-74-72) was even par for 3 rounds and Tied-Thirty fourth whereas Pranavi (75-71-75) was 2-over and T-Forty fourth.
Avani Prashanth had missed the minimize.
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Saptak Talwar logs first top-15 end on HotelPlanner Tour
India’s Saptak Talwar landed his first top-15 end on the HotelPlanner Tour with a remaining spherical of one-under 71 on the Irish Problem at Killeen Fortress.
Talwar, who has been taking part in on the HotelPlanner Tour this season, shot rounds of 75-70-70-71 to complete one-under for the week on the par-72 Killeen Fortress course. It was his greatest spherical of the season on the Tour.
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IGU sends four-member group to compete in APGC Mid-Beginner Championship
A four-member Indian group of Ranjit Singh, Arjun Singh, Simarjeet Singh and Varoon Parmar will compete within the Mid-Beginner championship on the Gading Raya Golf Membership in Tangerang, Indonesia, from Tuesday.
The event options about 80 gamers from 20 international locations. It is going to be performed over 54 holes on three days, in 4 completely different age teams.
“The course is in pristine form, however there’s probability of rain for the subsequent three days. So, adapting to the situations turns into important,” mentioned Ranjit Singh.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SNOOKER
Kothari, Arora in quarterfinal; Chawla, Natasha bow out
India’s Sourav Kothari and Shivam Arora superior to the quarterfinals of their respective cue sports activities disciplines on the World Video games right here on Monday.
Kothari misplaced his remaining league sport to Darryl Hill of Nice Britain 1-2 in a match that was poised on a knife-edge until the ultimate black.
Regardless of the defeat, the Indian entered the final eight stage on a greater body common (+1) following a three-way tie.
Zac Cosker, who misplaced 0-2 to Kothari on the opening day, defeated his countryman Hill 2-0 to complete second behind the Indian.
Cosker (0) edged out Hill (-1) to make the last-eight stage.
Arora, the Commonwealth Championships silver medallist in heyball, outclassed Kevin Zarekani 5-1 within the pre-quarters.
The 38-year-old was largely untroubled within the Race-to-5 match. Arora subsequent meets Yip Kin Ling of Hong Kong China for a spot within the medal spherical.
Nevertheless, the opposite two Indians within the competitors, Kamal Chawla and Natasha Chethan, did not get previous the group stage.
Chawla frittered away a very good probability to make the quarters from Group ‘D’, shedding 1-2 to former professional Michael Georgiou.
Within the ladies’s 6-red snooker, the promising Natasha misplaced 1-2 to the formidable Wendy Jans of Belgium to bow out of the Video games.
The outcomes:
Males: Snooker: Darryl Hill (GBR) beat Sourav Kothari 2-1 (65-33, 34-61, 68-59); Michael Georgiou (Cyp) beat Kamal Chawla 2-1 (54-40, 26-75 (54), 68-13).
Heyball combined (Pre-quarters): Shivam Arora beat Kevin Zarekani (Swe) 5-1.
Girls: 6-red snooker: Wendy Jans (Bel) beat Natasha Chethan (Ind) 2-1 (19-45, 50 (50) -0, 46-9).
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