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Oct 13, 2019

Tejinder Pal Singh Toor Betters Own National Shot Put Mark

Tejinder Pal Singh Toor broke his own national record at the 59th Open National Athletics Championship, claiming shot put gold with a throw of 20.92m. Despite a below-par show at the World Championships, Toor managed to better his Asian Games record of 20.75m.
Foul throws troubled Toor in Doha. Even in Ranchi, he had three. Despite the achievement, coach Mahinder Singh Dhillon was unhappy as they were targetting Olympic qualification.
In women's 400m, favourite VK Vismaya raced to gold with a 52.71s effort. While Jisna Mathew did not finish, Anjali Devi surprised everyone, finish only third (53.03s).
She has been the fastest 400m runner this season. In the men's event, Noah Nirmal Tom pipped Amoj Jacob and IS Jeevan to claim gold with 45.88s.
Long jumper M Sreeshankar retained his nationals crown as he bagged gold with an effort of 7.93m.

AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships Ulan-Ude 2019

The 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships were held in Ulan-Ude, Russia from 3 to 13 October 2019.
Wales' Lauren Price has won gold at the Women's World Boxing Championships in Russia after a successful appeal.
The middleweight initially lost the final against the Netherlands' Nouchka Fontijn on a split decision.
Three judges had given the fight to Fontijn (30-27, 30-27 and 29-28), while two had Price ahead 29-28, but GB Boxing appealed and the decision was overturned.
Price, 25, is the first Welsh boxer to win World Championship gold.

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge Becomes First To Run a Marathon In Under Two Hours

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge made history, busting the mythical two-hour barrier for the marathon on a specially prepared course in a huge Vienna park.
With an unofficial time of 1hr 59min 40.2sec, the Olympic champion became the first ever to run a marathon in under two hours in the Prater park with the course readied to make it as even as possible.
The 34-year-old already holds the men's world record for the distance with a time of 2hr 01min 39sec, which he set in the flat Berlin marathon on September 16, 2018.

Gilchrist Beats Kothari To Reclaim World Billiards Title

Peter Gilchrist of Singapore dethroned Sourav Kothari as world billiards champion by beating the Indian in the long-up format played over five hours in three sessions.
Gilchrist beat Kothari 1307-967 to reclaim the title after six years. It was a sweet revenge for Gilchrist who lost to Kothari in Leed in 2018.
Gilchrist last won the title in 2013 by defeating David Causier of England.
The final hour saw Gilchrist showing exceptional calmness as he produced a lethal blow of 300 to go ahead by 300 odd points with only five minutes left on the clock before winning the contest.

Mary Kom Secures Eighth World Medal

Six-time champion M.C. Mary Kom (51kg) assured herself an unprecedented eighth medal at the World Women's Boxing Championship after advancing to the semifinals of the event.
Mary Kom defeated a spirited rival in Colombia's Valencia Victoria, fetching a unanimous 5-0 verdict to make the last-eight stage.
With this, Mary Kom bettered her own record as the most successful boxer in the history of the marquee tournament.

World Youth Chess Championship

14-year-old R. Praggnanandhaa provided the 'golden' embroidery to India's best-ever haul of seven medals in the World Youth chess championship.
But unexpected was India's eventual tally that was made possible by a series of favourable 11th-round results in five age-groups.
In terms of quality, Russia finished ahead with five medals including three gold medals.
Out of the 18 medals at stake across six competitions in three age-groups, India collected three silver and as many bronze medals, in spite of drawing a blank in the girls' under-16 section.
Since 2015, when this championship was reduced to three age groups from six, this is India's best performance.
India's silver medals came from Vantika Agarwal (girls' under-18), S. L. Srihari (under-14) and Divya Deshmukh (girls' under-14).
The bronze medals went to Aronyak Ghosh (under-16), M. Sreeshwan (under-14) and Rakshitta Ravi (girls' under-14).

Oct 12, 2019

National Open Athletics Championship: Annu Rani Wins Gold

Continuing her good run, Annu Rani bagged the gold medal in the women's javelin throw event at the 59th National Open Athletics Championships.
Annu, who set the national record at 62.43m to enter the women's javelin throw final at the World Championships in Doha, registered a comfortable win at the Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium.
Each of Annu's six throws were better than the best managed by her Railways' team-mate and rival, Sharmila Kumari.
The 25-year-old opened with a throw of 56.97m to make her intentions clear. She followed that up with a series of throws over 55.97, 58.31, 57.29 and 56.86 before securing the title with a 58.60m throw.
Sharmila's best effort was over 53.28m on her third throw.

Dutee Chand Breaks National Record On Way To Gold At National Open Athletics Championships

Dutee Chand shattered the 100-meter national record with a time of 11.22 seconds during the semi-finals at the National Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi.
The previous national record was 11.26 seconds, held jointly by Dutee and Rachita Mistry. With the time Dutee Chand also bettered her personal best time by 0.04 seconds.
Dutee hence moved closer to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualification mark - of 11.15 seconds for the 100m event - as the qualification period ends in June 2020.

Virat Kohli Third Cricketer To Slam Double Tons Against Six Nations

Virat Kohli broke a slew of records enroute his career-best unbeaten 254 as India posted a mammoth 601/5 in the first innings before declaring on Day 2 of the second Test against South Africa.
Kohli's 254 is the highest individual score by an Indian captain, surpassing his own record of 243 against Sri Lanka in Delhi in 2017/18.
By slamming his seventh double century, Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, both of whom had hit six double hundreds in their stellar careers, to become the Indian with the most number of double tons in Tests.
- The Indian captain also became the third cricketer after Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and Younis Khan of Pakistan to hit double tons against six different Test playing nations.
- Of the seven teams Kohli has played against so far -- Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Bangladesh -- Australia remains the only team against whom he hasn't scored a double hundred.

Oct 11, 2019

Cultsport Signs Jasprit Bumrah as Brand Ambassador

Away from the field with a back injury, Jasprit Bumrah is making long strides on brands' pitch. Most lethal bowler in the white-ball format, Jasprit Bumrah will be the face of the sportswear range Cultsport.
Cultsport is the premium sportswear and shoe range from the integrated health and wellness start-up cure.fit. The brand has announced its association with India's pace spearhead.

Oct 10, 2019

Sprinter Nirmala Sheoran Banned For 4 Years, Stripped Of Asian Titles

Indian sprinter Nirmala Sheroen has been stripped off her two Asian Championships gold medals and banned for four years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which manages track and field doping cases.
The AIU came out with the order to ban Nirmala for testing positive for the steroids drostanolone and metenolone at a competition back home in June 2018.
According to AIU, the Indian athlete, whose biological passport also showed irregular blood readings, accepted the sanction and did not request for a hearing.

Mithali Raj Becomes First Female To Complete 2 Decades In International Cricket

India captain Mithali Raj became the first female player to last more than 20 years in international cricket.
She achieved the feat while leading India to an emphatic eight-wicket win over South Africa women in the first ODI of the three-match series.
Mithali, who made her ODI debut against Ireland on June 26, 1999, completed 20 years and 105 days in the 50-over format.
She, thus, became the only female cricketer to have played ODI cricket for over two decades.
The right-handed batswoman has played 204 ODIs till now, the most by a female, followed by England's Charlotte Edwards (191), Jhulan Goswami (178), Alex Blackwell (144) of Australia.
Mithali, 36, has also played 10 Tests and 89 T20Is for India.

Simone Biles Wins Record 21st World Gymnastics Championships Medal

Simone Biles broke the record for World Gymnastics Championships medals won by a woman with her 21st medal as the USA took their fifth straight team title.
The Americans' total of 172.33 was almost six full marks ahead of Russia in second, with Italy beating China to a surprise bronze in Stuttgart.
Great Britain finished sixth in Germany, with Olympic qualification for Tokyo 2020 already confirmed.
Biles finished with a personal total of 59.733 in winning her 15th world title.
The 22-year-old was the outstanding performer in a team that included Jade Carey, 19, and 16-year-olds Sunisa Lee, Kara Eaker and Grace McCallum.

Oct 08, 2019

Taiwan Masters: India's Ajeetesh Sandhu Finishes Tied-Second

India's Ajeetesh Sandhu finished tied-second after suffering a late double-bogey in the final round of the Mercuries Taiwan Masters.
Thailand's Suradit Yongcharoenchai held his nerve in a tight finish, securing an even-par-back-nine to card 70 to win the title and his career's biggest prize cheque.

World Athletics Championships

Asian champion Gopi Thonakal finished 21st in the men's marathon race as India ended their World Athletics Championships campaign with mixed results.
Laggards at the world stage, the 27-member Indian team was not expected to win any medal but it performed better than expected in this world championships with three finalists — in mixed 4x400m relay, men's 3000m steeplechase and women's javelin throw.
Long jumper Anju Bobby George's bronze in Paris in 2003 still remained India's only medal at the showpiece event.
Out of the three finals, steeplechaser Avinash Sable and the mixed 4x400m relay team booked Tokyo Olympics quotas while javelin thrower Annu Rani finished a creditable eight.
Annu became the first Indian woman to qualify for javelin throw finals while Avinash broke his own national record twice in three days.
India had three finalists in the 2015 edition in Beijing while only one Indian made it to the finals in the last edition in London in 2017.
The 31-year-old Gopi clocked 2 hours 15 minute 57 seconds to end among the top half of 55 runners who completed the race on the Corniche under 29 degree Celcius temperature and around 50 per cent humidity.
73 athletes had started the race which began just before midnight out of which 18 did not finish.

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