Indian sports activities wrap, April 18: Takhellambam Inunganbi wins bronze, India’s first medal at Asian Judo Championships in 13 years

JUDO

Takhellambam Inunganbi wins bronze, India’s first medal at Asian Championships in 13 years

Takhellambam Inunganbi gained a bronze medal within the girls’s -70kg division on the Asian Judo Championships 2026 in Ordos Metropolis, China, on Friday.

The 27-year-old judoka’s bronze ended India’s 13-year-wait for a podium-finish on the continental occasion.

She beat Mongolia’s Lkhagvadulam Sarantsetseg by ippon within the bronze medal match to safe the bronze.

Angom Anita Chanu was the final Indian to clinch a medal on the AsianChampionships, having additionally gained a bronze within the girls’s -52kg class on the 2013 version held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist Tulika Maan can be in motion within the girls’s +78kg division on the ultimate day of competitors.

– Group Sportstar

SQUASH

Chotrani goes all the way down to world No 19 Masotti in Hamburg thriller

FILE PHOTO: India’s Veer Chotrani misplaced to Frenchman Baptiste Masotti in an exhilarating quarterfinal in Hamburg Open.
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R. Ravindran

India’s Veer Chotrani went all the way down to French fourth seed Baptiste Masotti in a five-game thriller within the males’s quarterfinals of the Hamburg Open, a PSA Bronze-level occasion.

Chotrani, ranked world No 47, recovered twice to take the competition all the way down to the wire earlier than the French world No 19 clinched the decider for a 12-10, Sep 11, 14-12, Sep 11, 11-6 victory in 69 minutes.

Different Indians — fifth seed Abhay Singh, seventh seed Ramit Tandon, and former girls’s world No. 10 Joshna Chinappa — bowed out of the competitors on Thursday evening.

– PTI

HCL Squash PSA Challenger Tour: Suraj Chand, lone Indian in semis

Suraj Kumar Chand was the lone Indian to advance to the semifinals of the HCL Squash PSA Challenger Tour on the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai.

Males’s second seed Chand will meet Hong Kong’s Wailok To within the last-four stage after easing previous compatriot Om Semwal in straight video games within the quarterfinals.

– Group Sportstar

GOLF

Aditi Ashok makes reduce in LA

An eagle in the direction of the top of the day noticed Indian golfer Aditi Ashok make the reduce on the JM Eagle LA Championship on the LPGA Tour.

Aditi carded 72 after a primary spherical 70 and at 2-under for 36 gap.

She bogeyed the tenth and fifteenth however picked one shot on the sixteenth. A bogey on the 18th was adopted by a birdie on the primary. The see-saw continued as she bogeyed the second earlier than touchdown an eagle on the seventh.

Sei Younger Kim shot her second straight 7-under 65 at El Caballero to take a one-stroke lead within the remaining occasion earlier than the primary girls’s main of the season.

First-round chief Chizzy Iwai of Japan was tied for second with Ina Yoon of South Korea. Iwai adopted her opening 63 with a 68, making three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the again 9 late within the afternoon.

Yoon had a 64. She performed her opening 9 holes — the again 9 at El Caballero — in 7-under 29 and added a birdie on the par-5 seventh.

– PTI

Pranavi lone Indian to make reduce in Joburg Women Open

Pranavi Urs was the only real Indian to make the reduce as she scraped by means of into the weekend rounds on the cutline on the Joburg Women Open.

Pranavi, who carded 3-under 70 on the opening day on the Par-73 Randpark Golf Membership, added 1-over 74.

Pranavi flirted with hazard as she turned in 1-under 36, however then had 4 bogeys towards simply two birdies. She even bogeyed her closing gap, the ninth, however managed to outlive by a whisker. She was tied 52nd.

Two of the opposite 4 Indians within the area this week, Tvesa Malik (72-73) and Diksha Dagar (72-73), missed the reduce by one. Avani Prashanth (75-74) and Hitaashee Bakshi (77-74) missed by a much bigger margin.

France’s Celine Herbin and USA’s Brianna Navarrosa shared the lead after two rounds. The second spherical completed early on Saturday as play was suspended earlier on account of darkness. Fifteen gamers needed to come within the morning to renew their spherical.

The pair had accomplished their second rounds on Friday at 11-under par by means of 36 holes on a rain-ridden day at Randpark Golf Membership.

Herbin, 43, made probably the most of dry morning situations firing a 67 (-6) to set the early goal. The Frenchwoman, a two-time winner on the Women European Tour (LET), acquired off to a scorching begin birdying 5 of her first seven holes in South Africa.

A string of pars adopted earlier than Herbin birdied the par-5 14th and 18th after hitting the inexperienced in two. Herbin is chasing a 3rd LET victory.

Navarrosa in the meantime needed to cope with a extra testing, moist afternoon carding early birdies on the twelfth and 18th earlier than the horn sounded because of the risk of thunder and lightning within the space.

Returning for the restart following a 45-minute suspension, the 23-year-old proved rain was no hinderance as she carded three birdies in a row on the 2nd, third and 4th to maneuver into the solo lead.

In solo third on 10-under par sits France’s Camille Chevalier who matched the spherical of the week 66 (-7). Chevalier, a one-time winner in Hero Ladies’s Indian Open on the LET, didn’t drop a single shot on Friday at Randpark Golf Membership.

– PTI

MOTORSPORT

Sensible Karna Kadur snatches benefit

The Bengaluru-Coimbatore mixture of Karna Kadur and co-driver Kumar Ramaswamy (Arka Motorsports) got here up with a drive to recollect as he opened a 22-second lead over legendary Gaurav Gill (Srikanth GM) from Delhi and topped the forty ninth South India Rally on the Madras on conclusion of Leg-1 on the Madras Worldwide Circuit in Chennai.

With 4 extra Particular Phases to be run on Sunday and a sizeable lead, Kadur is inside putting distance of the title.

The three-day occasion which concludes tomorrow doubles up because the Spherical-2 of the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship powered by Vamcy Merla and Spherical-1 of the FMSCI Indian Nationwide Rally Championship.

– Group Sportstar

ATHLETICS

TCS World 10K Bengaluru: Abhishek Pal, Sanjivani Jadhav lead record-breaking 35,000+ members

The 18th version of the TCS World 10K Bengaluru is about to welcome a report 35,000+ members throughout on-ground and digital races on Sunday, April 26, 2026.

With a complete prize purse of USD 210,000, the World Athletics Gold Label Race will function a quick elite area, together with Uganda’s Harbert Kibet and defending champion Sarah Chelangat, alongside defending champion and occasion report holder Abhishek Pal of India and Sanjivani Jadhav.

– Group Sportstar

BADMINTON

The Badminton Affiliation of India (BAI) has introduced a nationwide mascot design contest for the upcoming BWF World Championships 2026, inviting followers, artists, and creators to play a job in shaping the id of one among badminton’s most prestigious world occasions.

Open to members of all ages, the competition runs from April 18 to Could 10, with the winner set to obtain Rs. 25,000 together with VIP tickets to the semifinals or finals.

– PTI

TABLE TENNIS

Syndrela completes uncommon double at Nationals

Syndrela Das capped a exceptional run by defeating Divyanshi Bhowmick 4–1 within the U-19 singles remaining, bringing the curtain down on the women’ group occasions within the first leg of the Junior and Youth Nationwide Desk Tennis Championships in Dehradun.

With this victory, Syndrela accomplished a uncommon double, having already secured the Below-17 singles crown on the identical championships. The promising paddler from West Bengal continues her spectacular rise, including to her earlier silver on the Senior Nationwide Championships in Indore.

– PTI

Revealed on Apr 18, 2026