Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu stood a step away from clinching her maiden title at the BWF Super Series Finals after defeating Chen Yufei of China in straight games in the women's singles semifinals here on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Indian dished out a controlled game of badminton to outclass the Glasgow World Championship bronze medallist Chinese opponent 21-15, 21-18 in a match that lasted a little less than an hour.
Indian boxers had a productive outing at the Galym Zharylgapov Boxing Tournament in Karaganda, Kazakhstan as they dominated the ring claiming three gold, a silver, and a bronze medal at the event which concluded today (December 24).
Three-time King’s Cup gold-medallist and a reigning national champion from the Railways K Shyam Kumar (49kg), world youth championships’ bronze-medallist Naman Tanwar (91kg) and Asian Games bronze-medallist Satish Kumar (+91kg) claimed gold medals.
To add to it, the 19-year-old Tanwar, seen as a bright prospect for the future, was also adjudged the best boxer of the tournament.
The silver medal was claimed by national champion Manish Kaushik (60kg).
Commonwealth Games silver-medallist Mandeep Jangra, competing in his maiden international tournament in the middleweight (75kg) category had to be content with a bronze medal after going down in the semifinals.
Jangra is also the reigning national champion in this weight category.
The season-ending tournament featured five international and 15 local teams, adding up to 154 boxers in all.
A win against old rival Magnus Carlsen of Norway seemed to have spurred Viswanathan Anand on as he went on to regain the World Rapid Chess Championship title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. In the final, Anand beat Russia’s Vladimir Fedoseev to reclaim the title he had won in 2003.
Congratulations to the man from the sixties, @vishy64theking, on his World Rapid title! I hope you dedicated this latest victory to everyone who has asked you when you were going to retire!
FIR has been lodged against Wrestler Sushil Kumar. Charges of intimidation against other wrestlers. For commonwealth games trial, violence broke out between two sets of supporters after sushil was declared victorious over pravesh Rana. Earlier in national championships, 3 wrestlers gave walk-over to Sushil Kumar. Bizarre but there are allegations that they were threatened and thus Sushil was declared National Champion in his category.
This happened earlier in National Championships Indore.
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Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu stood a step away from clinching her maiden title at the BWF Super Series Finals after defeating Chen Yufei of China in straight games in the women's singles semifinals here on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Indian dished out a controlled game of badminton to outclass the Glasgow World Championship bronze medallist Chinese opponent 21-15, 21-18 in a match that lasted a little less than an hour.
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Indian boxers had a productive outing at the Galym Zharylgapov Boxing Tournament in Karaganda, Kazakhstan as they dominated the ring claiming three gold, a silver, and a bronze medal at the event which concluded today (December 24).
Three-time King’s Cup gold-medallist and a reigning national champion from the Railways K Shyam Kumar (49kg), world youth championships’ bronze-medallist Naman Tanwar (91kg) and Asian Games bronze-medallist Satish Kumar (+91kg) claimed gold medals.
The silver medal was claimed by national champion Manish Kaushik (60kg).
Commonwealth Games silver-medallist Mandeep Jangra, competing in his maiden international tournament in the middleweight (75kg) category had to be content with a bronze medal after going down in the semifinals.
Jangra is also the reigning national champion in this weight category.
The season-ending tournament featured five international and 15 local teams, adding up to 154 boxers in all.http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/viswanathan-anand-wins-world-rapid-chess-championship-5003271/
A win against old rival Magnus Carlsen of Norway seemed to have spurred Viswanathan Anand on as he went on to regain the World Rapid Chess Championship title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. In the final, Anand beat Russia’s Vladimir Fedoseev to reclaim the title he had won in 2003.
Congratulations to the man from the sixties, @vishy64theking, on his World Rapid title! I hope you dedicated this latest victory to everyone who has asked you when you were going to retire!
This happened earlier in National Championships Indore.
Congratulations Vidarbha - Ranji Trophy Champions
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/vidarbha-win-their-first-ever-ranji-trophy/article22343554.ece