Junior World Cup: Elavenil beats Mehuli to win individual gold, India create world record in team event
July 15, 2019 22:12 ISTElavenil won the gold medal in the Junior World Cup's 10m air rifle individual event.
Elavenil won the gold medal in the Junior World Cup's 10m air rifle individual event.
Dutee clocked 11.32 seconds to clinch the gold at the World University Games in Naples, thus becoming only the second Indian sprinter to win a gold in an international event after Hima Das.
In what was to be an eight-round super middleweight contest on Saturday night (early Sunday morning in India), the 33-year-old from Haryana prevailed in four rounds for his 11th consecutive victory in the circuit.
In the women's 200m race, Hima clocked a much improved time of 23.43 seconds to win the gold. She has a personal best of 23.10 sec in 200m.
They went down 12-14, 9-11, 8-11 to the top-seeded Korean pair of Jeoung Youngsik and Lee Sangsu in the semifinals.
Ajay Singh lifted more than double his body weight to secure a gold medal at the Commonwealth Championships in Apia.
The 23-year-old Dutee Chand clocked 11.32 seconds to win the gold as she led the race from start to finish in the World Universiade.
The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth categories.
National record holder Muhammed Anas also won gold in the men's 200m race with a timing of 21.18 seconds.
Former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap's impressive run at the Canada Open Super 100 tournament came to an end
Another Indian, VK Vismaya finished third with a personal best time of 23.75s in the race at Poznan on Tuesday night.
The SAI, Thursday withdrew its controversial circular to ban parents and personal coaches of shooters from the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range here.
Archers Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav and Atul Verma were included in the TOPS for 2020 Tokyo Games.
Neeraj Goyat was set to take on Khan, a two-time world champion, in the WBC Pearl World Championship bout in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 12.
Chief national coach Pullela Gopichand wants his wards to improve their fitness and stay injury free to perform well in major tournaments.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju Tuesday said the IOA cannot take a unilateral decision about pulling out of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games following the omission of shooting from the event's roster.
Sanjeevani had failed a dope test in November last year as her sample taken during the National Inter-State Athletics Championships was found to contain Probenecid, a masking agent.
India beat Chile 4-2 in the semifinal of the FIH Series Finals in Japan, and will take on either Russia or Japan in the final.
The Commonwealth Games Federation on Thursday left out shooting from the 2022 Birmingham Games in its Executive Board meeting while recommending the inclusion of three new sports.
India had won as many as 16 medals, including seven gold, at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
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