GOLF
Chacarra stays on target to defend Indian Open title
Eugenio Chacarra stayed on target to try to turn out to be solely the fourth golfer to efficiently defend his Hero Indian Open title with a four-stroke lead on the prime on the penultimate day on the DLF Golf and Nation Membership in Gurugram.
A win on Sunday would additionally make the Spaniard the primary to take action on this course that has hosted the occasion since 2017. SSP Chawrasia was the final golfer to defend his title in 2017 however his 2016 win had come on the Delhi Golf Membership. Earlier than that, Jyoti Randhawa too had successive wins on the DGC.
Chacarra, who received final yr as certainly one of solely three gamers within the purple on what is taken into account to be one of many hardest venues on the DP World Tour, shot a 70 for a three-day complete of 10-under 206. The bottom four-day complete belongs to Japan’s Keita Nakajima, who shot a 17-under to win in 2024.
A well-judged putt on the seventh secured the primary of three successive birdies. He then made back-to-back bogeys on the thirteenth and 14th. However Casey Jarvis, his nearest challenger on the time, did worse with a bogey and a double on the identical holes to ease stress on Chacarra.
MJ Daffue and Alex Fitzpatrick have been tied second with Freddy Schott and David Legislation an extra shot again. Jack Senior at five-under had the very best spherical for the day to be tied tenth. Skilled Om Prakash Chouhan was the very best of the three Indians within the fray – Kshitij Naveed Kaul sinking an eagle on the eighth gap early within the morning en path to finishing his in a single day second spherical to sneak previous the lower line, at one-over for tied twentieth.
Prime scores:
206: Eugenio Chacarra (Esp, 67-69-70); 210: Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng, 70-68-72), MJ Daffue (RSA, 71-67-72); 211: David Legislation (Sco, 71-70-70), Freddy Schott (Ger, 66-73-72); 212: Andy Sullivan (Eng, 72-71-69), Ewen Ferguson (Sco, 70-73-69), Casey Jarvis (RSA, 73-64-75); 213: Euan Walker (Sco, 71-70-72); 214: Calum Hill (Sco, 69-73-72), Jack Senior (Eng, 73-74-67), Ugo Coussaud (Fra, 71-69-74); Indians: Om Prakash Chouhan 217 (73-71-73), Manoj S 222 (76-70-76), Kshitij Naveed Kaul 225 (73-75-77).
– Uthra Ganesan
Khelo India Tribal Video games: Nikita wins first gold for host Chhattisgarh, Odisha ladies dominate final day of swimming
Weightlifter Nikita ended host Chhattisgarh’s await a gold medal whereas Odisha’s ladies swimmers clinched all of the three yellow metals on provide on the fourth day of the Khelo India Tribal Video games 2026 in Raipur.
Nikita dominated the ladies’s 77kg weightlifting occasion to comfortably win the gold medal within the final occasion of the day whereas Odisha received gold by Ritika Minz (100m freestyle), Anjali Munda (50m Backstroke) and 4×100 medley relay crew. Anjali completed with 5 golds, 4 of them in particular person races.
Arunachal Pradesh was the opposite main movers within the medals desk because it received each the boys’s weightlifting gold medals to shut in on the third spot, which is at present held by Assam with 4 gold, seven silver and three bronze medals.
Karnataka continues to prime the medals tally with 15 gold, six silver, and three bronze whereas Odisha is second with seven gold, three silver and 10 bronze medals. Host Chhattisgarh is seventh with eight medals (one gold, 4 silver and three bronze).
Dimpi Sonowal led an Assam 1-2 in ladies’s 69kg with a complete of 155kg with Pallavi Payeng taking the silver with a complete of 131kg. Ruba Tadu (males’s 88kg) and Lalu Taku (Males’s 94kg) enhanced Arunachal Pradesh’s probabilities of breaking into the highest three as they clinched the gold medals with relative ease.
Tadu lifted a complete of 274kg for gold whereas Taku aggregated a complete of 250kg within the 94kg class.
Within the swimming competitors, Assam’s Krow siblings Nibir Krow and Violina Krow received a gold and bronze medal, respectively, on the final day of competitors on the worldwide pool. Nibir clinched the highest spot in 50m backstroke with a time of 31.31 seconds, pushing Karnataka’s Dhoneesh N (31.39s) to second spot.
Earlier, Violina received the bronze medal in 100m freestyle with a time of 1:16.62s with Odisha taking residence the gold and silver by Ritika Minz (1:12.93s) and Krushna Priya Nayak (1:15.77s).
Karnataka signed off the swimming competitors with 15 gold, 5 silver and three bronze medals. Karnataka’s Manikanta L topped the chart with eight golds and one silver whereas Dhoneesh M completed with 5 golds and one silver medal.
Within the ladies’s part Karnataka’s Meghanjali bagged 4 golds and two bronze medals.
– PTI
SHOOTING
Skeet shooters wrestle in Tangier World Cup
Not one of the Indian shooters might qualify for the finals of the skeet occasions on the ISSF World Cup for Shotgun in Tangier.
Olympian Maheshwari Chauhan got here near a top-eight spot after ending the primary day of qualification with a rating of 69 out of 75.
She shot 23 and 21 within the fourth and fifth collection for a ultimate rating of 113, two wanting 115 scored by Reem Ghanem Al-Sharshani of Qatar who took the ultimate qualifying spot.
Darshana Rathore who shot an ideal 25 within the ultimate collection completed in nineteenth place, just under Maheshwari, with a rating of 112.
Her youthful sibling, Yashasvi Rathore, shot 22 and 24 within the ultimate rounds to complete in twenty third place with a rating of 110. Areeba Khan and Mansi Raghuwanshi who have been competing for rating factors completed the competitors after scoring 112 every.
Within the males’s class, Parampal Singh Guron resulted in twenty sixth place with a rating of 117 after ending the final two collection with 23 and 24 hits, respectively.
Jyotiradiya Singh Sisodiya completed 62nd with a rating of 108 adopted by Man Singh who completed with a rating of 105 in sixty fifth place. Sukhbir Singh Harika and Harmehar Singh Lally, competing for rating factors, hit 113 and 102 respectively.
The lure shooters can be in motion from Tuesday.
– PTI
Revealed on Mar 28, 2026