ATHLETICS
Inter-College Athletics C’Ships: Tamil Nadu, Kerala choose two gold every on Day 2
S. Sam Vasanth has sprinting in his genes. His mom Kalaiselvi, a tailor by career, is a gold medallist in 100m and 200m on the Masters Nationals. The teenager made his mom proud as he emerged because the quickest man within the 100m on the 85 th All-India Inter-College Athletics Championships in Mengaluru on Tuesday.
After breaking V. Elakkiyadasan’s eight-year-old meet report within the morning’s semifinal, clocking 10.39s, Coimbatore’s Bharathiar College’s Sam received the 100m gold in 10.44s.
“I knew I’d win after I broke the report,” mentioned Sam, a pupil of Coimbatore’s Kongunadu Arts and Science School.
Tamil Nadu additionally produced the meet’s quickest girl in 100m with Madras College’s Parthipa Selvaraj surprising Sreena Narayanan – the nation’s second-fastest athlete final yr along with her 11.44s on the MG College meet in Kochi in December – to seize the gold with a private greatest 11.74s.
“I anticipated a quick time in the present day, every thing felt good from begin to end,” mentioned Parthipa, from Chennai’s MOP Vaishnava School.
In the meantime, Kerala picked two ladies’s gold in the present day, by way of MG College triple jumper Aleena Saji and Calicut’s 400m hurdler Delna Philip.
The morning session witnessed loads of drama. Pretty Skilled College’s Anju upset junior Asian silver medallist Laxita Vinod and received the ladies’s 800m, however surprisingly evaded photographers and ran away from the venue quickly after the occasion. The Nationwide Anti-Doping Company landed final night time and started testing athletes in the present day.
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RESULTS
Males
100m: 1. S. Sam Vasanth (Bharathiar, Coimbatore)10.44s (broke Elakkiyadasan’s meet report in semifinal clocking 10.39), 2. Vibhaskar Kumar (Mangalore) 10.57, 3. Gitson Tharmara (Madras) 10.59.
800m: 1. Sanket (MD, Rohtak) 1:48.95s, 2. Deore Prathames (Mangalore) 1:49.09, 3. Amit Kaur (Chhatrapati Sahu)1:49.37.
400m hurdles: 1. S. Mahendran (Madras) 51.35s, 2. Aryan Prajwal Kashyapa (Mangalore) 51.55, 3. A. Karthik Raja (Manomanian) 51.83.
Excessive soar: 1. Sudeep (KUVEMPI) 2.11m, 2. S. Mohammed Fazil (Madras) 2.09, 3. Aditya Raghuvanshi (Chandigarh) 2.06.
Shot put: 1. Varinder Pal Singh (Chandigarh) 18.22m, 2 Sawan (Chandigarh) 18.06, 3. Aniket (Mangalore) 17.98).
20km stroll: 1. Vihvendra Singh (RIMT) 1:25:50.07s, 2. Sarvajeet Patel (DRML) 1:27:28.03, 3. Dasharath N. Talawar (Bengaluru Metropolis) 1:30:03.98.
Girls
100m: 1. Parthipa Selvaraj (Madras) 11.74s, 2. Subdharshini (SRM) 11.89, 3. Tanisha Raghav (Delhi) 11.93.
800m: 1. Anju (Pretty Skilled) 2:08.43s, 2. Anjali (GNDU) 2:09.50, 3. Laxmi Priya Kisan (KIIT) 2:10.59.
400m hurdles: 1. Delna Philip (Calicut) 1:00.12s, 2. Deekshitha Rama Gowda (Mangalore) 1:00.96, 3. Megha Munavallimath (Dharwad) 1:01.64.
Triple soar: 1. Aleena Saji (Mahatma Gandhi, Kottayam) 12.79m, 2. Sadhana Ravi (SRM, Chennai) 12.74, 3. Preeti (MGS) 12.52.
Discus throw: 1. Saniya Yadav (TSB) 53.45m, 2. Priya (Chandigarh) 51.95, 3. Ujjwal Kasana (GNDU) 49.57.
20km stroll: 1. Chaudhari Gayat Ganesh (SPP)1:40:15.41s, 2. Baljeet Kaur (TSB) 1:41.37.12, 3. Nikita Lamba (Chandigarh) 1:43:54.43.
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GOLF
Jasmine takes lead in opening leg of 2026 WPG Tour
Jasmine Shekar sunk in two late birdies for a strong spherical of 3-under 67, that gave her the only real lead after the opening spherical of the primary leg of the 2026 Girls’s Professional Golf Tour in Mumbai Tuesday.
Jasmine, who received one title within the earlier season, was one shot away from younger professional Lavanya Jadon, who additionally had one win final season.
Lavanya carded 2-under 68 and the one different participant with a par or higher rating was former winner, Seher Atwal (70), on the Par-70 format on the Bombay Presidency Golf Membership.
Sneha Singh and Amandeep Drall, two of the a number of winners in 2025, have been amongst 5 gamers who shot 2-over 72 and have been tied fourth.
Debutant professional Saanvi Somu had a tricky begin with 6-over 76 and was nineteenth, whereas Vidhatri Urs (77) had three straight double bogeys on the again 9 and was Tied-Twentieth.
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BOXING
CA Kuttappa returns as head coach of Indian males’s boxing crew
Dronacharya awardee C.A. Kuttappa has returned as the top coach of the Indian males’s boxing crew for a 3rd stint, the Boxing Federation of India confirmed on Tuesday.
The Companies man replaces Sports activities Authority of India’s Rohtak coach Dharmender Yadav, who was appointed final yr. Yadav, nonetheless, will proceed to be a part of the lads’s teaching setup.
“Sure CA Kuttappa has been appointed because the coach in cost and Dharmender Yadav may also proceed to be part of the coach workers,” BFI Government Director Col Arun Malik informed PTI.
The change on the helm comes within the wake of an underwhelming couple of years for Indian males’s boxing.
Solely two male boxers managed to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the slide continued on the 2025 World Championships in Liverpool, the place the lads’s contingent did not win a single medal for the primary time in 12 years.
Kuttappa isn’t any stranger to the function, having beforehand served as the lads’s head coach throughout each the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.
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Printed on Jan 13, 2026