Indian sports activities wrap, December 23: Ramita, Himanshu claimed air rifle combined workforce gold at NSCC

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Aryan lead at 9-under as Jeev lead Legends’ spectacular present with 7-under

Aryan Roopa Anand produced certainly one of his finest rounds as knowledgeable with a nine-under 62, whereas the legendary Jeev Milkha Singh fired a seven-under 64 on the opening day of the IGPL Invitational Sri Lanka, the ultimate occasion of 2025 Tour.

The 2-time All India novice champion, Aryan opened birdie-birdie and closed similarly and had a complete of 9 birdies and an eagle in opposition to one bogey on all sides of the Royal Colombo.

Jeev, a four-time winner on the DP World Tour and 4 instances in Japan, picked up 5 birdies in final six holes to lie second.

Mendacity third was native teenager, Kaya Daluwatte, who shot 6-under 65. She was additionally the highest girl within the discipline after the primary day.

The following finest girl was IGPL Mumbai winner, Pranavi Urs, who tumbled from 5-under by means of 15 holes to 2-under with a bogey-double bogey-par end during the last three holes.

IGPL Order of Advantage chief, Aman Raj and six-time Asian Tour winner SSP Chawrasia had been tied fourth at 4-under, whereas Gaganjeet Bhullar, a double winner at IGPL, Sachin Baisoya, Veer Ganapathy, IGPL UAE winner, Karandeep Kochhar, and Harendra Gupta had been in a five-way tie for the sixth place.

It was a really robust leaderboard on a low-scoring day when 10 gamers went four-under or higher.

“I don’t suppose is a professional Tour like this wherever,” Jeev, who now divides his time between the senior Excursions in Europe and Japan and a few occasions on the Asian Tour, stated in a launch.

“The IGPL is getting the legends of Indian golf to play in identical discipline as promising younger stars, lots of whom are nonetheless amateurs. It will assist the younger stars study by simply watching the seniors. Plus, we had some superb ladies gamers.” Among the many legends, Jeev had the most effective rating at 7-under, Chawrasia shot 5-under, Bhullar shot 4-under, and Jyoti Randhawa went 1-over 72.

Among the many younger stars Veer carded 4-under 67, Zoravar shot even par 71 and Harjai carded 3-over 74.

Jeev was thrilled to play with a bunch of younger stars in the identical discipline.

“I’ve all the time wished to play this historic course, nevertheless it by no means occurred. It lastly did as I performed the Professional-Am with the legendary cricketer, Mahela Jayawardene and it was nice enjoyable, and he performs very effectively.” “As for at this time, it was my first aggressive spherical in Colombo. It was very popular however I received used to it as I went alongside. After being two-under for the primary 12 holes, it was nice to complete with 5 birdies within the final six holes.”

-PTI

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Ramita Jindal, Himanshu Dhillon declare 10m air rifle combined workforce gold at NSCC 2025-26

Haryana’s pairing of Ramita Jindal and Himanshu Dhillon displayed a dominant efficiency to say the 10m air rifle combined workforce gold medal in the course of the 68th Nationwide Taking pictures Championship Competitions (NSCC) on the Madhya Pradesh State Taking pictures Academy.

The duo defeated Maharashtra’s Arya Borse and Parth Mane 16–12 within the gold medal match to safe the title, extending Himanshu’s tremendous run after he set a brand new nationwide report and junior nationwide report of 634.5 in males’s 10m air rifle occasion the day past.

Within the bronze medal match, Delhi’s Rajshree Sancheti and Paarth Makhija held their nerve to say third place with a hard-fought 17–15 victory over the Madhya Pradesh pairing of Shreya Agrawal and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar.

The junior 10m air rifle combined workforce gold medal went to West Bengal, as Sandrata Roy and Abhinav Shaw delivered a composed efficiency to defeat Tamil Nadu’s Maneshika Tarun Senthil and Shaktivel Senthilvel 16–8 within the remaining. Karnataka’s Hrudya Shri Kondur and Naraen Pranav secured the bronze medal after registering a 17–9 win over the Andhra Pradesh workforce of Nishitha Bommidi and Ummahesh Maddineni.

Within the youth class’s gold medal match, Isha Anil Taksale and Pritam Kendre from Maharashtra emerged winners after a carefully fought contest, edging previous Tamil Nadu’s Maneshika and Shaktivel 16–14 to say the gold medal. The bronze medal was secured by Karnataka’s Tilottama Sen and Abishek Sekhar, who defeated West Bengal’s Sandrata and Shaw 17–9 within the bronze medal match.

The championship motion now shifts to New Delhi after Christmas, with the boys’s 25m Fast Fireplace Pistol remaining scheduled for Friday, December 26 on the Dr. Karni Singh Taking pictures Vary.

-Staff Sportstar

Revealed on Dec 23, 2025