PARA-ATHLETICS
Group India jersey for World Para Athletics Championships unveiled in New Delhi
With one month to go for the World Para Athletics Championships, the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) unveiled the official Group India jersey at a ceremony held at The Lalit, New Delhi, on Wednesday.
The announcement additionally highlighted the 73-strong Indian contingent making ready to compete on residence soil from September 27 to October 5.
The launch occasion was attended by PCI’s model ambassador, actor and MP Kangana Ranaut; alongside PCI President Devendra Jhajharia; Paul Fitzgerald, Head of World Para Athletics, and India’s prime para athletes like Preeti Pal, Simran, Rinku, Dharambir, Devender Kumar, Amisha Rawat, Shreyansh Trivedi, Varun Singh Bhati, and Pranav Soorma.
Dharambir and Preeti, India’s flag bearers for the occasion, had distinctive performances on the Paris 2024 Paralympics. Dharambir gained the gold medal within the males’s Membership Throw F51 occasion, whereas Preeti Pal secured two bronze medals.
“Carrying the Indian flag at this championship is an amazing honour. After the expertise in Paris, I’m extra motivated than ever to offer my finest and make your entire nation proud. This new jersey shall be a logo of our unity and preventing spirit,” Dharambir stated.
Preeti added, “Successful medals on the Paralympics confirmed me the ability of perseverance and perception. Sporting the Group India jersey is a proud second, and I’m excited to compete on residence floor and encourage the following technology of para athletes throughout the nation.”
– Group Sportstar
HOCKEY
Hockey India declares free entry for Asia Cup in Rajgir
Hockey India has introduced that entry for all matches of the Males’s Asia Cup shall be freed from value in Rajgir, Bihar.
The match is scheduled to be performed from August 29 to September 7 on the newly constructed Rajgir Hockey Stadium.
Followers can register for his or her free tickets by visiting www.ticketgenie.in or Hockey India app, the place they are going to obtain a digital ticket upon completion of the method.
Talking on the announcement, Hockey India President Dr. Dilip Tirkey, stated, “Internet hosting the Hero Males’s Asia Cup in Rajgir is a historic second for Indian hockey, and we wish each fan to be a part of this journey. By holding entry free, our intention is to make the game extra accessible and to encourage households, college students, and younger athletes to come back and witness world-class hockey. This isn’t only a match, it’s a celebration of the sport, and the folks of Bihar and past need to be on the coronary heart of it.”
Echoing the sentiment, Hockey India Secretary Basic Bhola Nath Singh, added, “We’re delighted to supply free entry to all matches of the Hero Males’s Asia Cup. Rajgir has proven large enthusiasm for hockey, and we’re assured that followers will flip up in enormous numbers to help their groups. This initiative is in step with our dedication to constructing a hockey tradition throughout each nook of India and guaranteeing that the ambiance on the stadium is electrical all through the match.”
The match will characteristic eight nations – India, Japan, China, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Korea, Bangladesh, and Chinese language Taipei. The occasion additionally serves as a qualifier for the 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup.
– Group Sportstar
FOOTBALL
India gears as much as settle scores with Iraq in closed-doors U-23 pleasant
Following a slender 1-2 defeat in its first pleasant, the India U23 males’s nationwide group will tackle Iraq of their second closed-doors pleasant match on Thursday, August 28, on the Kuala Lumpur Soccer Stadium in Malaysia.
The match marks the ultimate preparatory fixture earlier than the squad heads to Doha for the AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers subsequent week.
Reflecting on the primary pleasant, Head Coach Naushad Moosa stated that it was an essential studying curve.
“It was a really aggressive sport and a helpful expertise for us,” he stated. “Video games like these assist the boys perceive the calls for of worldwide soccer and provides us confidence that we will compete.”
With the AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers quick approaching, the pinnacle coach underlined the importance of those friendlies.
“These matches are an important step in our preparation. The main focus stays on constructing our general group understanding, enhancing our means beneath stress, and guaranteeing we supply this momentum into Doha.”
GOLF
Shubhankar Sharma joins international star solid at DP World India Championship
Two-time DP World Tour winner Shubhankar Sharma will lead the house cost when he joins international stars Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood on the USD 4 million DP World India Championship in New Delhi from October 16-19.
Sharma, who loved a latest profession spotlight by representing the nation on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, grew to become the youngest Indian participant to win on the DP World Tour when he claimed the Joburg Open title in December 2017, aged simply 21.
He lifted a second trophy two months later after carding a elegant ultimate spherical of 62 to win the Maybank Championship, and capped off the season by claiming the 2018 Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Yr award and topping the Asian Tour Order of Benefit.
The 29-year-old has additionally recorded six wins on the Skilled Golf Tour of India, and boasts a Main Championship prime 10, following his spectacular tied eighth end in The Open at Royal Liverpool in 2023.
Sharma joins reigning Masters champion and profession grand slam winner McIlroy and his Europe Ryder Cup group mate Fleetwood, who can be a seven-time DP World Tour winner, Olympic silver medallist and newly- topped FedExCup champion, within the inaugural DP World India Championship on the Delhi Golf Membership.
International sensible logistics supplier DP World and the DP World Tour launched the DP World India Championship this season.
Co-sanctioned with the Skilled Golf Tour of India (PGTI), the match options the biggest prize fund ever provided for a DP World Tour occasion in India, with an thrilling area set to affix Sharma, Fleetwood and McIlroy.
Sharma stated: “We’re all very excited concerning the DP World India Championship. I can’t wait to get again to Delhi Golf Membership. It’s a historic course – I performed there so much as a junior and have very fond reminiscences. It’s a troublesome course, it’s iconic, and I’m positive the DP World Tour gamers who’ve performed there’ll keep in mind it properly.
“Having gamers like Rory McIlroy because the reigning Masters champion and the FedExCup champion Tommy Fleetwood coming to the occasion, issues like this will change golf in India.
“I keep in mind Tiger Woods enjoying an exhibition match a few years in the past and the impression strolling with him had on me, so to have such an unimaginable area coming to the nation will make this occasion actually particular.” The upcoming match underscores India’s rising affect as a vacation spot for elite golf and as a strategic marketplace for DP World. The brand new match follows the success of the 2025 Hero Indian Open, gained by Eugenio Chacarra, and additional boosts the Tour’s momentum within the area.
The match would be the eighth of 9 occasions within the ‘Again 9’ part of the 2025 Race to Dubai, constructing in direction of the season-ending DP World Tour play-offs and culminating within the DP World Tour Championship in November at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.
– PTI
Newbie Mannat Brar takes first-round lead in Twelfth leg of WPGT
Newbie Mannat Brar struck a purple patch in the course of the opening spherical with 4 birdies in a row and grabbed the primary spherical lead within the Twelfth leg of Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour in Hosur on Wednesday.
Enjoying within the Rs. 15 lakh prize cash occasion, Mannat shot 2-under 70 for the one beneath par spherical of the day on the Clover Greens.
Mannat, who was tied eighth final week within the eleventh leg at Status Golfshire, was two pictures away from the trio comprising Kriti Chowhan, Jasmine Shekar and Ananya Garg, all of whom shot even par 72.
Mannat opened with a birdie after which dropped pictures on the fourth and the sixth to go to 1-over. She then produced 4 birdies in a row from the ninth to Twelfth. The birdie run stopped as she had 5 pars in a row, however sadly closed with a bogey on the tough Par-3 18th.
Kriti, on the lookout for her maiden win on the WPG Tour, birdied the second and the third, however gave again each these pictures on the seventh and the eighth. She parred her final 10 holes for her 72.
Jasmine, a a number of winner on the Tour, had an early birdie on the fifth, after which three in a row from the eleventh to the thirteenth. She bogeyed the eighth, ninth, 14th and the sixteenth for a par rating.
Ananya, additionally within the hunt for her first professional title, had three birdies in opposition to three bogeys.
One other newbie Aaradhya Shetty and professional Rhea Jha carded 1-over 73 every to occupy the fifth place.
Final week’s runner-up newbie Lavanya Gupta, who is because of attend faculty within the US quickly, and 4 others — newbie Diya C Patil, Karishma Govind, Ravjot Ok Dosanjh and Ananya Datar — had been tied for seventh place with scores of 2-over 74 every.
Lavanya had begin with birdies on the second and the third however was unable to maintain the momentum going. Total, she had three birdies in opposition to 5 bogeys.
Among the many well-known names having a troublesome time on the primary day had been Girls European Tour gamers Amandeep Drall (75) and Seher Atwal (75) at tied -Twelfth, Sneha Singh (76) at 18th, Ridhima Dilawari (77) at T-19, and Rhea Purvi Saravanan (79) at T-23.
The Twelfth leg is without doubt one of the previous couple of occasions forward of the Girls’s Indian Open in October. It would additionally determine which gamers make the grade for the worldwide occasion.
– PTI
Udayan Mane units course file, seizes clubhouse lead on day two
Golfer Udayan Mane set a course file rating of five-under 67 as he seized the clubhouse lead on the second day of the Rs 1 crore Kolar Open on Wednesday.
The Pune-based Olympian, who had shot a 73 within the opening spherical to be tied twenty fourth and 5 off the lead, made a powerful comeback to maneuver to four-under 140. Mane’s rating on a windy day broke the earlier course file of 68 set by Honey Baisoya in spherical one on Tuesday.
The second spherical couldn’t be accomplished as there have been heavy rains late within the night, which compelled the suspension of play. Thirty-one gamers out of a complete of 120 are but to finish their second spherical.
They are going to resume play early on Thursday.
Gurugram’s Dhruv Sheoran was four-under for the day and error-free by 15 holes as his whole additionally learn four-under 140, the identical as chief Udayan.
Chandimandir’s Umed Kumar put collectively an eagle, 5 birdies and a bogey over 15 holes to be six-under for the day together with his whole standing at three-under.
Dhruv and Umed might problem Udayan’s lead once they resume their second spherical on Thursday.
Nepal’s Subash Tamang (69) and Chandigarh’s Jairaj Singh Sandhu (70) had been tied second within the clubhouse as they ended the day with totals of three-under 141.
Delhi’s Shaurya Bhattacharya was fourth within the clubhouse at two-under 142 having shot a 72 on day two.
Mane, final week’s runner-up and at the moment fourth within the PGTI Order of Benefit, began the second spherical from the back-nine the place he produced 4 birdies to make his manner up the leaderboard.
The 34-year-old Udayan, trying to finish a four-year title drought, dropped two bogeys on the front-nine but additionally delivered an eagle on the Par-5 second gap due to a high quality second shot and a birdie from 15 toes on the closing ninth gap to remain forward of the remaining.
“This being a brand new course on the tour, all of us professionals are nonetheless determining loads of issues right here like the place to overlook the inexperienced, what form is required for a selected pin place and many others,” stated Mane.
– PTI
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