Three Indian women wrestlers progressed to the semifinals of the U17 World Wrestling Championship while Greco-Roman practitioner Ronak Dahiya bagged a bronze medal in the 110kg, here. Aditi Kumari put up an impressive show against Ukraine’s Karolina Shperyk (10-0) and Marriem Mohamed Abdelaal (4-2) to set up the 43kg semifinal against Aleksandra Berezovskaia. In 57kg,…
Harmeet (Goa), Snehit (Jaipur), Szocs (Ahmedabad), Sharath Kamal (Chennai), Manika (Bangaluru), Sathiyan (Delhi), Ayhika (Puneri), and Quadri (U Mumba) during the UTT’s press conference in Chennai on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: M. VEDHAN Four seasons have gone by in the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) beginning 2017 with the league not taking place due to different…
Causing a flutter: M.R. Venkatesh, right, surprised sixth seed P. Iniyan. | Photo Credit: P.K. Ajith Kumar After the quiet of the past three days, Tuesday proved quite stormy at the National chess championship. Some top Grandmasters lost, a few others were held. The No. 1 seed Surya Shekhar Ganguly, however, notched up his fourth…
Game on:Abhijeet, right, took 51 moves to outwit Harshit.P.K. Ajith Kumar. | Photo Credit: P.K. Ajith Kumar The second day proved a seamless continuation of the first. Nothing unusual happened on the top boards in the second round of the 61st National chess championship at the RPS International School on Sunday. The only excitement came…
Venkatesh Das (left) and S.P. Sethuraman in the opening round of the National chess championship at Gurugram on August 17, 2024 | Photo Credit: P.K. AJITH KUMAR The seeds sailed smoothly on Saturday (August 17, 2024). The opening round of the 61st National chess championship saw all the Grandmasters — 19 of them — post…
File picture of Olympics javelin throw gold medallist Arshad Nadeem celebrating with the Pakistan flag | Photo Credit: Reuters Arshad Nadeem, the javelin throw gold medallist in the recently-concluded Paris Games, said Pakistani women athletes should be given modern facilities so that they can perform at the highest level. Since returning home with Pakistan’s first…
Feisty wrestler Vinesh Phogat said that under “different circumstances” she could see herself competing till 2032 because she still has a lot of wrestling left in her but is now unsure about her future as things “might never be same again”. Vinesh had announced her retirement from the sport after her disqualification from the women’s…
Paris Olympics Bronze medallist shooter Manu Bhaker during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, on August 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Her shooting hand bruised by repeated pistol recoils during unrelenting training, Manu Bhaker will take a well deserved three month break. But it will be no vacation. The double Olympic medallist will…
Indian grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa had a rare bad in the office, finishing at the bottom of the table in the rapid section of Saint Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament here. Having lost three and drawn three coming into the third and final day of rapid competition, Praggnanadhaa lost to Lenier Dominguez of the United…
Jiya Rai. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Jiya Rai, a 16-year-old from Mumbai with Autism Spectrum Disorder, has become the world’s youngest and fastest para swimmer to cross the English Channel, a feat which she accomplished on July 28-29. Jiya swam the English Channel from Abbot’s Cliff in England to Pointe de la Courte-Dune in…
