ARCHERY
Indian archers verify one other medal at Asia Cup Stage-1
Chikitha Taniparthi and Rajat Chauhan reached the compound combined group ultimate to safe one other medal for India on the Asia Cup Stage-1 archery event in Bangkok on Thursday.
The highest-seeded pair of Chikitha and Rajat obtained a first-round bye earlier than knocking out Chinese language Taipei 159-155 and Kazakhstan 157-153 to arrange a summit conflict with Malaysia.
India’s recurve combined group, comprising Ridhi Phor and Devaang Gupta, obtained a first-round bye earlier than dropping 0-6 to Vietnam.
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SHOOTING
Powerful outing awaits Indian skeet shooters
India’s skeet shooters can have their activity reduce out as they face a powerful line-up of members on the primary day of the season-opening ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Tangier on Friday.
The occasion will characteristic a number of the world’s most completed athletes competing in a powerful area on the Membership Tangérois de Tir.
Day one of many competitors will begin with 75 targets for each women and men, which can be adopted by 50 targets and the finals on Sunday.
India has entered the utmost quota of six athletes in each the boys’s and ladies’s classes.
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India has entered the utmost quota of six athletes in each the boys’s and ladies’s classes.
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A extremely aggressive area consisting of Olympic and world champions have entered the competitors.
India has entered the utmost quota of six athletes in each the boys’s and ladies’s classes, together with two shooters every in each the boys’s and ladies’s sections who can be competing for rating factors.
The ladies’s area is full of stars, with reigning Olympic champion Francisca Crovetto Chadid of Chile, who’s returning to worldwide competitors after maternity go away, headlining the competitors together with world champion Samantha Simonton of the US.
Diana Bacosi of Italy, a double Olympic and double world champion, additionally begins, and former world champion Dania Jo Vizzi of the USA, Kazakhstan’s world championship medallist Assem Orynbay, are amongst the opposite shooters within the fray.
The Indian group includes Olympian Maheshwari Chauhan and siblings Darshana Rathore and Yashasvi Rathore.
Yashasvi, the youngest of the 2, was positioned second within the 68th Nationals and in addition gained silver within the junior class on the Asian Championships in Shymkent final yr.
Areeba Khan and Mansi Raghuwanshi will even be competing, however just for rating factors.
Within the males’s occasion, an 82-strong area entered the competitors, with 2025 World Championship bronze medallist Emil Kjeldgaard Petersen of Denmark headlining the checklist.
Final season’s World Cup finals winner Christian Elliot of the USA, Italy’s double Olympic champion Gabriele Rossetti, Tokyo silver medallist Jesper Hansen, additionally of Denmark, and former world champion and Asian Video games champion Masoud Saleh Al-Athba of Qatar are among the many high names within the competitors.
Representing Canada for the primary time can be Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, who was in India colors until final yr.
India’s hopes will relaxation on the skilled Man Singh and Parampal Singh Guron, together with Jyotiraditya Singh Sisodiya, who’s making his senior worldwide debut.
Man, a former Asian champion, is making a comeback into the group after three years whereas Parampal final represented India in 2022.
Jyotiraditya gained a junior bronze in his final worldwide outing on the Shymkent Asian Championships final yr and can be raring to go on his senior India debut.
Sukhbir Singh Harika and junior nationwide champion Harmehar Singh Lally can be competing for rating factors.
With Olympic champions, world champions, skilled finalists and rising skills all competing, the event guarantees a compelling begin to the season.
As athletes start their journey in the direction of Olympic qualification pathways, all eyes can be on Tangier to see who units the early benchmark for the yr forward.
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ATHLETICS
Gulveer to steer Indian elite area at 18th TCS World 10K in Bengaluru
Reigning Asian champion and nationwide document holder, Gulveer Singh, will spearhead India’s problem on the 18th version of the TCS World 10K Run Bengaluru, which is a World Athletics Gold Label race, on Sunday.
Gulveer heads into the race in red-hot type, having completed third on the New York Metropolis Half Marathon earlier this month, the place he clocked 59:42, which is the very best timing for any Indian half-marathon runner.
The TCS World 10K carries a complete prize purse of USD 210,000, with USD 26,000 awarded to the winners within the males’s and ladies’s classes.
The nationwide document holder in each the ten,000m (27:00.22) and 5000m (12:59.77), Gulveer loved a standout 2025 season, profitable each occasions on the Asian Athletics Championships. He additionally set an occasion document of 1:12:06 on the Tata Metal World 25K Kolkata 2025.
Earlier within the month, organisers additionally introduced a powerful worldwide elite line-up for the 18th version of the race, together with the likes of Harbert Kibet of Uganda, Kenya’s Vincent Langat, Ethiopia’s Gemechu Dida and Eritrea’s Samuel Habte.
Indian elite athletes will even compete for high honours, with Rs. 3 lakh on supply for the highest finishers, with an extra Rs. 1 lakh awarded for setting an occasion document.
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MOTORSPORT
Racing prodigy Atiqa finishes stellar WSK stint as highest-ranked feminine
Indian racing prodigy Atiqa Mir capped off a stellar stint within the WSK Tremendous Masters with a commendable eighth-place end out of 53 drivers within the ultimate of Spherical 5, ending her marketing campaign within the premier karting collection because the highest-ranked feminine.
Making a giant voluntary swap from the mini (age 8-12) to junior class (12-14) at the beginning of 2026, the 11-year-old demonstrated her particular expertise all by means of the five-round collection.
FILE PHOTO: Indian racer Atiqa Mir (excessive proper on the rostrum.
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FILE PHOTO: Indian racer Atiqa Mir (excessive proper on the rostrum.
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Racing within the OK-NJ class, the primary Indian to be supported by Components 1 Academy, Atiqa collected one podium, two quickest laps, eight top-6 finishes and a scorching P2 end in one of many qualifying classes over the course of the WSK championship and European leg of the COTFA collection.
Moreover being the highest-ranked feminine within the WSK collection, she was additionally the very best Indian driver.
The racer from Jammu and Kashmir had her justifiable share of unhealthy luck alongside the best way that robbed her of extra podium finishes.
In her ultimate weekend of the collection, Atiqa set the seventh-fastest time in qualifying, which was only a tenth of a second away from P3, highlighting the fierce competitors.
Within the warmth races, she completed P5, P4 and P5, exhibiting outstanding velocity and consistency towards the very best drivers on the planet.
Atiqa was ranked sixth out of 53 drivers and began P3 for the pre-final. She made a outstanding begin to transfer to the second spot, however going into Flip 4, she was pushed off the observe by a driver, denying her a entrance row begin for the finals.
She was thirteenth on the grid for the ultimate however charged by means of the sphere to be P7 at one stage earlier than ending a creditable eighth.
The race weekend reaffirmed Atiqa’s standing because the main driver on the planet of karting who can go up towards the very best and even beat them.
She had made her OK-NJ debut at La Conca Spherical in January. At solely 11 years of age, Atiqa was amongst the youngest and least skilled driver in Italian situations.
Regardless of the challenges, she confirmed her uncooked velocity, out-qualifying the likes of Mercedes Junior Nicolo Perico.
The final spherical at Franciacorta confirmed that Atiqa had come of age as she put collectively a clear weekend with top-five finishes in all heats.
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HOCKEY
It’s SMPK vs VOCP
Host Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK) rode on Ricky Tonjam’s 5 targets to beat Mumbai Port 8-4 within the semifinals and arrange a title conflict with V.O. Chidambaranar Port (VOCP), Thoothukudi, within the forty seventh all-India Main Ports hockey championship on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) astro-turf floor in Kolkata on Thursday.
VOCP defeated Chennai Port 3-1 within the different semifinal.
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KHELO INDIA TRIBAL GAMES
Swimmer Manikanta completes golden hat-trick, Chhattisgarh’s Anushka wins second medal on Day 2
Karnataka swimmer Manikanta L accomplished a hat-trick of gold medals, dominating the 200m particular person medley whereas Odisha’s Anjali Munda clinched her second consecutive yellow metallic within the girls’s occasion on day two of the Khelo India Tribal Video games on Thursday.
Hosts Chhattisgarh additionally had a motive to rejoice as native hope Anushka Bhagat added a second silver to her tally, ending second within the girls’s 200m IM race.
Manikanta, who had gained the 100m breaststroke and 50m butterfly gold on the opening day, continued to dominate the sphere as he gained the 200m IM race with a time of two:25.93s.
Tripura’s Riyaj Tripura completed second with a time of two:34.04s whereas Kanhu Soren (Odisha) gained the bronze with a time of two:36.21s.
Anjali, who had gained the 200m freestyle gold on Wednesday, clinched the ladies’s 200m IM gold with a time of two:53.82s with Anushka clinching the silver with a time of two:59.33s. The bronze medal went to Anjali Mallick of Odisha (3:06.13s).
Karnataka lead the medals tally with six gold and two silver whereas Odisha are second with three gold, one silver and 4 bronze medals.
Within the weightlifting competitors, Assam’s Monikha Sonowal and Mizoram’s Isak Malsawmtluanga braved by means of harm issues to give you a strong efficiency to clinch gold medals within the girls’s 48kg and males’s 60 class, respectively.
Monikha got here to the KITG carrying a knee harm whereas Malsawmtlunga needed to struggle by means of a niggling again harm to place their respective states on the medals desk.
Deepa Rani Mallik of Odisha (120kg) and Alaaska Aleena of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1116kg) bagged the silver and bronze respectively.
Monikha, who hails from Assam’s Dhemaji district, had twisted her knee throughout coaching three months in the past and the coaches had been considering pulling her out of the Video games however she overruled them.
“I used to be clear that I didn’t need to miss this occasion as a result of I needed to make a mark on the nationwide stage and I’m pleased that I might carry out underneath strain,” mentioned the 19-year-old.
Jharkhand’s Babulal Hembrom took house the silver medal with a complete elevate of 230kg.
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GOLF
Ahlawat finest Indian in Gurugram
Veer Ahlawat, the PGTI Order of Advantage winner in 2024 and runner-up on the 2024 HIO, was the best-placed Indian with on the Hero Indian Open with a spherical of even par 72 that had six birdies, two bogeys and two double bogeys. He was tied thirty second.
Enjoying on a sponsor’s invite the 16-year-old Kartik Singh was among the many subsequent finest lot of Indians at 1-over 73, alongside Om Prakash Chouhan, a former PGTI Order of advantage winner, Kshitij Naved Kaul and Mohd Azhar, who had another gap to play. They had been tied forty first.
Defending champion Eugenio Chacarra, who cradled the Hero Indian Open Trophy in his lap on his flight from New Delhi to New York after profitable the 2025 version of the occasion, put himself in an important place to have a go at changing into a back-to-back winner.
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Revealed on Mar 26, 2026