Here are all the key updates in Indian sports activities on Tuesday, March 7.
SHOOTING
Indian Open
Arjun Babuta beat Paarth Makhija 17-13 to win the lads’s air rifle gold within the Indian Open taking pictures championship on the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Tuesday.
World Cup gold medallist, the 24-year-old Arjun shot 264.4 within the medal spherical, after having certified on high with 633.4. He was a reduce above the remaining, however Paarth was capable of run him shut within the gold medal match.
Rashmi Kumari beat Shambhavi Kshirsagar 16-8 for the ladies’s gold. It was Shambhavi who had topped the medal spherical with 261.0, marginally forward of Rashmi who was capable of prevail in the long run. Olympian Ayonika Paul had topped qualification with 628.5 and ended up fourth finally. In truth, each Disha Dhankhar and Ayonika missed the gold medal match by 0.2 and 0.4 level respectively.
RESULTS (10m air rifle)
Men
1. Arjun Babuta 17 (264.4) 633.4; 2. Paarth Makhija 13 (260.6) 627.8; 3. Samarvir Singh 258.6 (626.7); 4. Manpreet Singh 258.5 (622.9).
Women
1. Rashmi Kumari 16 (260.7) 627.1; 2. Shambhavi Kshirsagar 8 (261.0) 624.5; 3. Disha Dhankhar 260.5 (626.5); 4. Ayonika Paul 260.3 (628.5).
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
ATP Challenger, Lugano: Ramkumar loses in doubles opening spherical
Ramkumar Ramanathan in partnership with Jonathan Eysseric of France was overwhelmed 6-2, 7-6(1) by Neil Oberleitner and Philipp Oswald within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €73,000 Challenger tennis match in Lugano, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
RESULTS
€73,000 Challenger, Lugano, Switzerland
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Neil Oberleitner & Philipp Oswald (Aut) bt Jonathan Eysseric (Fra) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 7-6(1).
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Lian Tran (Ned) bt Jennifer Luikham 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
– Team Sportstar
ATHLETICS
India luggage wealthy haul of medals at Asian Cross Country C’ships
India gained three crew gold and one bronze medal in a formidable present on the sixteenth Asian Cross Country Championships in Kathmandu on Tuesday.
India clinched gold in Under-20 boys 8km, Under-18 women 6km and senior girls’s 10 km crew occasions whereas the lads’s 10k crew gained a bronze medal.
Srushti Shridhar Redekar shone brilliant within the Under 18 women 6km occasion, clinching the gold medal with a timing of 24:15. Beby additionally carried out effectively and gained the bronze medal with a timing of 24:42.
In the Under 20 boys 8km occasion, Shivaji Parashuram Madappagoudra clocked 27:39 to safe silver medal.
In the ladies’s 10km, Sonika gave a troublesome combat to silver medallist Rajpura pacha of Nepal to accept a bronze with a timing of 41:32. She misplaced out on silver by only one second.
The Under 18 women 6km crew comprising Srushti Shridhar Redekar, Beby, Priyanka C, and Bhumeshwory Devi Huidrom secured the gold medal.
The Under 20 boys 8km crew of Shivaji Parashuram Madappagoudra, Subhasis Ghosh, Vijay Sanjay Savaratkar and Divbyanshu Kumar additionally gained a yellow metallic.
The girls’s 10km crew comprising Sonika, Chhavi Yadav, Munni Devi and Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav secured the third gold of the championships for India.
The bronze medallist males’s 10km crew had Hemraj Gurjar, Anand Singh, Nitesh Kumar Rathva and Balram.
– PTI
BADMINTON
German Open: Tasnim Mir qualifies for foremost draw, Ashwini-Sumeeth combined doubles pair out
Indian teenager Tasnim Mir certified for the principle draw of the German Open, a BWF World Tour Super 300 occasion, in Mulheim on Tuesday.
Mir beat Ireland’s Rachael Darragh 24-22, 21-8 in her qualifying spherical match. The 17-year-old Indian will face eighth-seeded Thai shuttler Pornpawee Chochuwong within the first spherical of the principle draw on Wednesday.
Mixed doubles duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and B. Sumeeth Reddy went down 10-21, 12-21 to the Scottish pair of Julie Macpherson and Adam Hall of their opening spherical fixture.
World junior championships silver medallist Sankar Muthusamy gained his first qualifying spherical match 21-11, 23-21 in opposition to Slovakia’s Milan Dratva earlier than shedding 21-23, 19-21 to Azerbaijan’s Ade Resky Dwicahyo within the last spherical.
On Wednesday, together with Mir, Malvika Bansod, Lakshya Sen and newly-crowned National champion Mithun Manjunath may even be in motion within the first spherical of the principle draw.
Bansod takes on fifth-seeded Chinese participant Wang Zhi Yi. Sen, seeded sixth, takes on Frenchman Christo Popov whereas Mithun faces former world champion Loh Kean Yew, fourth seed from Singapore.
– Team Sportstar
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com