There will be no shortage of funds, Kiren Rijiju assures archers after World Championships success
Cricket | June 19, 2019 16:13 ISTThe Indian archery contingent secured 1 silver and two bronze medals at the World Championships in The Netherlands.
The Indian archery contingent secured 1 silver and two bronze medals at the World Championships in The Netherlands.
It has been learnt that the recovery is likely to take three to four months, putting his participation at the prestigious Worlds (September-October) in serious doubt.
Sawant later became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at the World Championships.
The AIBA said it has worked hard towards reforming its systems, most notably scoring, which has often been lambasted as opaque by critics.
The 2012 Olympic medallist took to Twitter to share the moments she spent with Rajnikanth.
Malik, the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games gold medallist, overcame Inkar Yermukambet of Kazakhstan 6-1 in the quarterfinals after beating Japan's Taiki Yamamoto 4-1 in the pre-quarterfinals of the 125kg category.
Jitu says his dream is to win a gold in the World Championships.
This was India's fifth medal at the World Championships and all of them have been silver.
In the junior category, 17-year-old Ahvar Rizvi also won a silver medal in the same event.
Saina credited coach Vimal for being there when she needed him the most.
Zoravar and shot a combined 90 out of 100 in qualification to finish 24th, while Chenai and Sreyasi ended 33rd after having shot a total of 86 hits at the Fox Lodge Shooting Range.
Chenai gave a great account of himself at the biggest global stage, surviving a gruelling seven-way shoot-off to reach the finals but the shooter eventually finished sixth in the finals.
Both the Indians had identical scores of 70 after three qualification rounds and leading score till now is 73.
Despite the loss, the 24-year-old from Delhi joined a rare club of world championship medallists from India, the past winners being Vijender, Vikas and Shiva.
Amit has a tough contest coming up as he would be taking on second-seeded Uzbek Hasanboy Dusmatov, while Gaurav will face Tunisia's Bilel Mhamdi in his next contest.
Manoj defeated Moldovan Vasilii Belous 3-2 in an exhausting welterweight (69kg) contest. Kavinder, on the other hand, edged past Japan's Ryusei Baba.
After three listless days, the onus was on Sakshi and Vinesh to end India's medal drought but both failed to live up to the expectations.
Vijender was the first Indian pugilist to win a bronze medal at the 15th World Championship in Milan in 2009. Later Vikas Krishan (2011) and Shiva Thapa (2015) repeated the heroics for India.
Sameer reached the second round after his opponent Spain's Pablo Abian retired midway with the score reading 21-8 17-4 in favour of the Indian.
The eighth-seeded Indian shuttler did not break much of a sweat in the process and came out with a classy performance to progress to the next round.
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