Pune: Incheon Asian Games gold medallist Jitu Rai broke his own record to claim the 10m pistol title for men in the 58th National Shooting Championship at the Balewadi shooting range here on Tuesday.
The Army shooter, who has been consistent in leading the charts of different events in the nationals, scored 202.3 to claim the gold. He broke his own national mark of 199.4 which he had set in the Munich World Cup earlier this year.
In the final of the women’s 25m sports pistol, Rahi Sarnobat beat Surabhi Pathak to win the gold while Anisa Sayyed got the better of Shreya Gawande to claim the bronze.
Mumbai: Chennai-based seasoned Railways cueist Rafath Habib advanced to the round of 32 in the Rs 1.89 lakh NSCI-BoI All India 9-Ball Open Pool tournament along with his teammates Faisal Khan and Siddharth Parikh.
Mumbai: Nidhi Chilumula made it to the second round of the $25,000 Ganesh Naik ITF Women’s Tennis Championships. She defeated Karman Kaur Thandi 7-6(5), 6-3.
New Delhi: Indian judokas put up an impressive performance and bagged a rich haul of 10 medals, including a gold, in the eight Asian Cadet and 15th Asian Junior Judo Championships held in Hong Kong from December 10-15.
Benaulim: Hosts Goa thrashed Daman and Diu 9-1 in the West Zone Mir Husssian Trophy Under-15 Sub Junior National Football Championship at Holy Trinity Ground.
The highlight of the day was a brilliant hat-trick by Goa captain Borris D'Mello and Aroon Alvares.
Zurich: Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia’s appeal against the statement issued by ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert on his investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process has been ruled inadmissible.
Fifa also said on Tuesday there were no grounds for opening disciplinary proceedings against Eckert following complaints from whistleblowers who gave evidence to the investigation that their evidence had been revealed.
Calcutta: Koushik Ghosh hit 120, Abhimanyu Easwaran scored 89, and Samik Karmakar and Shreyansh Ghosh are batting on 86 and 87, respectively, as Bengal under-23 piled up 467 for five at stumps on Day II of their C.K. Nayudu Trophy tie versus Jammu and Kashmir under-23, in Kalyani.
BRIEF SCORES: J&K U-23 99. Bengal U-23 467/5 (K. Ghosh 120, A. Easwaran 89). Match to continue
