Indian sports activities wrap, January 23: Shahu, Sakshi rating greater than Nationwide Data in Capturing Choice Trials

SHOOTING

Shahu, Sakshi shine in Air Rifle T2

Maharashtra’s Sakshi Sunil Padekar and Railways’ Shahu Tushar Mane bettered nationwide document scores within the finals and qualification rounds of the 10m Air Rifle men and women occasions, respectively on the Nationwide Choice Trials 1&2 Group A, which is at present underway at Dr. Karni Singh Capturing Vary in New Delhi.

Sakshi shot 254.3 within the T2 closing whereas Shahu Tushar Mane scored 637.1 within the qualification. Each these scores are higher than the nationwide document, nonetheless, this won’t be thought-about as an official nationwide document. Olympian Arjun Babuta gained the T2 closing of 10m Air Rifle Males, whereas Sakshi claimed the ladies’s 10m Air Rifle T2 closing. Olympian Rahi Sarnobat claimed the T2 closing of 25m Pistol Girls.

Sakshi topped the qualification spherical with a powerful 634.4 earlier than backing it up with an excellent 254.3 within the closing, higher than the present nationwide document rating, set by Elavenil Valarivan within the Asian Capturing Championship final 12 months, to seal first place in emphatic style.

Kerala’s Vidarsa Okay Vinod shot 252.0 within the closing to complete second, whereas World Championship bronze medallist Elavenil Valarivan, who was second in qualification with 633.4, claimed third place with a closing rating of 231.4.

Olympian Arjun Babuta claimed high honours in a intently contested 10m Air Rifle Males Trial 2 closing, ending with 253.4. Babuta, who had certified second with 632.4, elevated his efficiency within the closing to edge Maharashtra’s Parth Rakesh Mane by the narrowest of margins. Parth completed simply 0.1 factors behind on 253.3 to take second place with each athletes capturing 10.8 of their closing shot. Navy’s Kiran Ankush Jadhav secured third with 231.2.

Shahu, who had bettered the nationwide document rating in qualification with an impressive 637.1, was unable to transform that benefit within the closing and completed sixth with 166.5 after a shoot-off with Haryana’s Samarvir Singh (145.2).

Former Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games gold medallist Rahi Sarnobat completed on high to assert gold within the 25m Pistol Girls Trial 2 closing, accumulating 43 hits in a dominant show. Haryana’s Vibhuti Bhatia as soon as once more impressed to safe second place with 35 hits.

Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker, who had led the qualification spherical with 589-24x, settled for third place with 31 hits.

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ATHLETICS

AFI to pick out Indian staff for Asian Cross Nation throughout nationwide championships

The sixtieth Nationwide Cross-Nation Championships to be held in Ranchi on Saturday will function the choice trial for the continental occasion in Japan subsequent month.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Friday mentioned it’ll choose each senior and junior (U20) athletes for Asian Cross Nation Championships through the Ranchi occasion.

Prime 4 runners in every of the senior (women and men) and junior (women and men) teams can be chosen for the Indian staff.

“The AFI will choose a 16-member nationwide staff, together with eight within the ladies’s part for the 18th Asian Cross-Nation Championships to be held on February 21 in Fukuoka, Japan,” AFI president Bahadur Singh Sagoo mentioned.

Thirty-five groups, together with affiliated state models, will compete within the Nationwide Cross Nation Championships on Saturday. General 732 athletes, together with 328 feminine runners, have confirmed their participation within the first home competitors of 2026 season.

The gap for the senior women and men can be 10km. The junior males will compete over a distance of 8km. The gap for U20 ladies’s can be 6km. The gap for U18 boys and U18 ladies can be 6km and 4km respectively. For U16 boys and U16 ladies, the space can be 2km.

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GOLF

Ridhima overcomes quadruple bogey to win 2nd leg of WPGT by one shot

Ridhima Dilawari overcame a disastrous quadruple bogey halfway by the ultimate spherical to win the second leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour on the Kalhaar Blues & Greens in Ahmedabad on Friday.

Ridhima, who held a four-shot lead over newbie Zara Anand, ultimately edged out the latter by one shot to win her first title since final July. Ridhima carded 5-over 77 and totalled even par 216.

Beginner Zara Anand (74) was second at 1-over 217 and the 2025 Order of Advantage winner, Vani Kapoor (72) was sole third at 2-over 218.

Initially of the ultimate day, Ridhima could have appeared a close to certainty to win as she held a four-shot lead after two rounds. Nevertheless, the quadruple bogey on the tenth with eight extra holes to go, put Ridhima below extreme stress.

She confronted threats from at the least 5 others, however not one of the challengers may make the most of the prospect that they had been given.

The win additionally carried Ridhima to the highest of the Order of Advantage with Rs.4.00 lakh, whereas second positioned Jasmine Shekar, who gained the primary leg, is second with Rs.2.30 lakh. Jasmine, who had a tough week, completed 18th and 16 photographs behind the winner.

Ridhima opened with a bogey after which ran eight straight pars earlier than dropping a quadruple bogey on the Par-4 tenth gap.

At that stage newbie Lavanya Gupta (75-70-74) with a birdie on the second and pars all the way in which to the tenth, joined Ridhima in shared lead. Lavanya would later drop again with three bogeys on the again 9 as Ridhima held on with pars until the end.

Zara, after a entrance 9 with 9 pars, dropped a double bogey on the tenth and a bogey on the thirteenth. The birdie on the fifteenth was not sufficient as she wanted at the least yet another birdie within the final 4 holes to pressure a playoff with Ridhima. The birdie didn’t come, and she or he was left one behind.

Vani Kapoor (72), six behind Ridhima at the beginning, additionally had an opportunity regardless of bogeys on the primary and the sixth. She managed birdies on two pars-3s, the seventh and the eleventh, and didn’t have any bogeys on the again 9.

But, Vani wanted extra birdies on the again 9, however she had none and completed two behind in sole third place at 2-over 218.

Sneha’s two early double bogeys ruined her probabilities and she or he completed with a spherical of 73. General, she had 4 birdies, one bogey and two doubles. Sneha was tied fourth with Lavanya, whose bogey-bogey end took away any likelihood she could have had of upstaging Ridhima.

Additionally tied fourth was Jahanvi Bakshi, who had three birdies towards six bogeys, two of which got here on the seventeenth and the 18th.

Nayanika Sanga (75), Amandeep Drall (79) had been seventh and eighth and Lavanya Jadon (73) completed ninth.

Beginner Mahreen Bhatia (75) tied for tenth place with Riya Jadon (73).

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BILLIARDS

Nationwide Championships: Shrikrishna shocks high seed Sitwala

Younger S Shrikrishna edged out fellow PSPB cueist and high seed Dhruv Sitwala within the quarterfinals of the senior males’s competitors on the Nationwide Billiards Championships in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, on Friday.

The 25-year-old Shrikrishna, a former champion, performed the massive factors properly in a battle of equals to win a humdinger (4-3) and arrange a semifinal assembly with seasoned campaigner Siddharth Parikh of RSPB. Parikh outplayed Rishabh Thakkar of Maharashtra 4-1.

Within the different semifinal, reigning champion Sourav Kothari will play towards younger Rayaan Razmi. Whereas Kothari defeated Brijesh Damani 4-2, Razmi prevailed by the same margin over Dhvaj Haria.

After scoring a lopsided 3-0 win over veteran B Bhaskar within the quarterfinals, Shrikrishna appeared to proceed from the place he left off, working up a fast 3-1 lead within the best-of-seven body conflict.

Nevertheless, southpaw Sitwala, a two-time Asian champion, hit again with runs of 139 and 130 to attract stage. He even took a 112-44 lead over his youthful rival within the decider earlier than shedding place. Shrikrishna then knit collectively a gritty 106 unfinished break below stress to undergo to the last-four stage.

Earlier within the morning, Aarav Sancheti’s dominance over Rahul Williams continued because the Pune teen scored a nervy 320-316 win to pocket the sub-junior boys’ billiards title.

After trailing by about 30 factors, Sancheti got here good when it mattered to take a slander lead earlier than being saved by the bell within the 90-minute title conflict. This was his second title on the Nationals, and the 15-year-old is in with an opportunity to complete with a quadruple of trophies.

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CYCLING

Pune Grand Tour: Luke Mudgway leads Li Ning Star to glory

Alexei Shnyrko gained stage 4 of the Bajaj Pune Grand Tour 2026 on Friday.
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The Pune Grand Tour 2026 ended with Li Ning Star, China standing atop the staff Normal Classification with a mixed time of 28:41:19s.

Stage 4, held on Sunday, traced a 95km circuit by the center of town, rising 578m and weaving previous Pune’s trendy arteries and historic icons, together with Shaniwar Wada, earlier than the race reached its conclusion.

Anchored by the imperious type of Luke Mudgway, the Chinese language outfit delivered a masterclass in consistency and management throughout all 4 phases, overlaying 437km.

Spain’s Burgos Burpellet BH, the one Professional-team within the inaugural Pune Grand Tour, claimed second place at 28:42:09, whereas Terengganu Biking Workforce, Thailand rounded out the rostrum with 28:48:19.

The 29 year-old Mudgway from New Zealand emerged because the undisputed champion. Competing towards 164 elite riders from 28 groups representing 35 international locations throughout 5 continents, he completed with an general time of 9:33:04s for the Stage 4 race. His closest challenger, Alan Carter Bettles of Roojai Insurance coverage Winspeed, Thailand, trailed by simply 14 seconds, whereas Yorben Lauryssen of Tarteletto–Isorex, Belgium completed third at 33 seconds behind.

Mudgway retained the ‘Yellow Jersey’ from the second he claimed it on the opening day on the Mulshi–Maval Miles and by no means relinquished it. His consistency within the sprints additionally earned him the ‘Inexperienced Jersey’ because the race’s most prolific factors scorer.

Harshveer Singh Sekhon of the Indian Nationwide Workforce completed the week as ‘India’s Main Performer’, incomes the ‘Blue Jersey’.

Pune Grand Tour was India’s first-ever UCI 2.2 class multi-stage race for males with rating factors on supply for the LA 2028 Summer time Olympics.

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TENNIS

ITF Juniors: Aradhya Kshitij stuns high seed to achieve closing in Kolkata

Sixth seed Aradhya Kshitij produced a exceptional efficiency to upset high seed Eyad Reda Mohamed Sherif of Egypt and guide a spot within the boys’ singles closing of the DKS ITF Juniors (J200) match on the DKS Sports activities Complicated in Kolkata on Friday.

Kshitij confirmed spectacular resolve within the semifinal as he bounced again after dropping the opening set 4-6. The Indian junior, ranked ninth within the nation, raised his sport within the second set, utilizing sturdy baseline play to dominate proceedings and clinch it 6-3. Carrying the momentum into the decider, Kshitij secured an early break and maintained his composure to shut out the set 6-3 to seal a memorable comeback victory. Kshitij will face unseeded Dongjae Kim of Korea within the closing on Saturday.

The ladies’ singles closing will see fifth seed Arina Malygina of Russia tackle sixth seed Darina Matvejeva of Latvia.

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All India Police Video games: Kerala Police, Uttar Pradesh win titles in basketball

Kerala Police ladies defeated Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) 81-66, whereas its males’s staff misplaced to Uttar Pradesh 42-69 in basketball finals of the All India Police Video games in Siliguri on Friday. 

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