Former Indian women’s hockey team captain Elvera Britto died here on Tuesday due to old age related problems. She was 81.
She represented India against Australia, Sri Lanka and Japan.
In 1965, Elvera became only the second woman hockey player to be conferred with the Arjuna Award after Anne Lumsden (1961).
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It was the turn of the star veteran and a newbie to bag the crowns in the senior National table tennis championships here on Monday.
PSPB’s Sharath Kamal bagged his 10th title and Akula Sreeja of RBI her maiden crown, defeating G. Sathiyan (PSPB) and Mouma Das (PSPB) in the men’s and women’s finals respectively.
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Vijayveer Sidhu won the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol title while Rhythm Sangwan cliched gold in both the women’s and junior section of the same event.
Punjab’s Vijayveer Sidhu won the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol title while Haryana’s Rhythm Sangwan cliched gold in both the women’s and junior section of the same event on day six of the National Selection Trial 3 and 4 here on Wednesday.
Vijayveer fought off a spirited challenge from India internationals Anish Bhanwala and Adarsh Singh to win the gold with 32 hits to his name at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.
Sachin won a 67kg bronze in the Greco-Roman category of the ongoing Asian Championships in Mongolia on Wednesday.
A reluctant wrestler, Sachin Sehrawat, was a big MS Dhoni fan and wanted to be a successful wicketkeeper-batter like him. He even joined a cricket academy in Faridkot (Punjab) to pursue his dream. His father Virender Singh, who was with the BSF and posted at Faridkot then, however, wanted his son to follow some individual sports.
Sachin was unrelenting but eventually decided to switch to wrestling after coaches at his academy didn’t give him enough opportunities with the bat during training. “My father suggested to take up wrestling. So I joined Baba Farid Kushti Akhara in Faridkot in 2012,” Sachin, 25, told The New Indian Express from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia after winning his first international medal, a 67kg bronze in the Greco-Roman category of the ongoing Asian Championships on Wednesday.
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The country’s youngest Grandmaster D. Gukesh, 15, improved upon his two runner-up finishes in March with a resounding title-triumph in the 48th La Roda International Open chess tournament in Castile-La Mancha, in Spain.
In the ninth and final round, joint overnight leader Gukesh stopped Israel’s Victor Mikhalevski in just 26 moves to finish with eight points.
Earlier, aiming for the runner-up spot, R. Praggnanandhaa did Gukesh a favour by holding the other overnight leader Armenia’s Haik Martirosyan in 37 moves. Martisroyan (7.5 points) finished runner-up and Praggnanandhaa topped a five-way tie for third place at seven points. Raunak Sadhwani was part of those at seven points and took the fourth spot.
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He also became only the second Indian batter after Virat Kohli to complete 10,000 runs in the T20 cricket.
It was yet another milestone for Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma as he became the fifth batter to achieve this feat.
Rohit Sharma achieved this feat against Punjab Kings here at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium on Wednesday. He also became only the second Indian batter after Virat Kohli to complete 10,000 runs in the T20 cricket.
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Indian swimmer Chahat Arora clinched a gold medal in the women’s 50m breaststroke event at the Thailand Age Group Championship.
The Chandigarh swimmer, who won two gold medals at the nationals last year, won the yellow metal after equalling her own previous best Indian time of 33.62 seconds in Samut Prakan, Thailand.
Junior swimmers Vritti and Nina shine in SA Nationals
The country’s junior swimmers continued to make a splash in South Africa.
Vritti Agarwal and Nina Venkatesh won a silver and bronze medal respectively in the South Africa National Championships.
Vritti clocked a personal best time of 18:06.40 to grab the silver in the junior girl’s 1500m 15-16 years freestyle event.
Nina won the bronze in the 50m butterfly finals with an effort of 29.03 in Port Elizabeth.
The two are a part of the 16-member Indian junior team participating at the South Africa nationals.
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A. Ananthi, a beach volleyball player from Melur, has qualified for the International School Sports Federation (ISF) Gymnasiade 2022, to be held in Normandy in France between May 13 and 28.
She qualified in the national-level selection organised by School Games Federation of India (SGFI) held at Namakkal on March 20 where more than 1,200 athletes competed in various sports. She will represent India at the ISF along with her teammate K.B. Amirthaa and substitute player M. Swethaa.
Ananthi is a Class XII student in Palaniappa Memorial Higher Secondary School, Palanichettipatti, near Theni and resides in a Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu hostel. She hails from Therku Theru in Melur, near Madurai.
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The results:
Men: 110m hurdles: 1. Siddhanth Thingalaya (Mah) 14.08s, 2. Tarundeep Bhatia (Pun) 14.27s, 3. M. Krishik (Kar) 14.60s. High jump: 1. Sarvesh Kushare (Mah) 2.25m, 2. R. Mannivannan (TN) 2.15m, 3. Jesse Sandesh (Kar) 2.15m.
3000m steeple chase: 1. Shankar Lal Swami (Har) 8:32.01, 2. Balkishan (Har) 8:38.32, 3. Prince Raj Sharma (Skm) 8:41.42. Shot put: 1. Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Pun) 19.12m, 2. Karanveer Singh (Pun) 19.07m, 3. Naresh Antil (Har) 18.00m.
Women: 100m hurdles: 1. Yarraji Jyothi (AP) 13.09s, 2. Moumita Mondal (Ben) 13.78s, 3. C. Kanimozhi (TN) 13.88s. Long jump: 1. Nayana James (Ker) 6.47m, 2. Ancy Sojan (Ker) 6.33m, 3. Sandra Babu (Ker) 6.32m.
3000m steeple chase: 1. Komal Jagadale (Mah) 9:47.86, 2. Richa Bhadauriya (UP) 10:14.53, 3. G. Maheshwari (Tel) 10:47.30. Javelin: 1. Annu Rani (UP) 61.15m, 2. Shilpa Rani (Har) 55.72m, 3. Sanjana Choudhary (Raj) 54.19m.
In the last eight months, sprinter Jilna VM who finished second behind India’s fastest runner Dutee Chand in 100m at the Fed Cup on Sunday, has met her 18-month-old daughter just once. The 24-year-old Kerala athlete has been training in Kollam, about seven hours by road from her in-law’s house in Palakkad where her child and father stay. Despite it being just an overnight journey, Jilna refrains from visiting home as it would disrupt her training.
“Since I am away for so long that during one of our calls she called me chechi (elder sister) instead of mother. It hurt. It feels terrible that I can’t be with my own baby but if I go for even one day, my training pattern will derail. I have worked really hard to get back in shape after childbirth. I am doing sports for my passion and family so this is a cross I will have to bear,” says Jilna, who is competing in her first competition post her daughter’s birth.
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