The Indian athlete Shaili Singh attempted a jump of 6.65m which provided her third stop on the podium. Her other jumps were marked as 6.59m, 6.35m, 6.35m, 6.36m and 6.41m at the Yokohama meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour gold label event.
Unidentified thieves stole a pre-Independence era bronze cannon weighing 300 kg from outside the Punjab Police officers' mess in Chandigarh, said officials.
There are 11 players in the Indian table tennis team. At the World Table Tennis Championships, India has only won two medals. At the first 1926 event, the men's team and SRG Suppiah in the men's singles both won bronze.
Bilal Ahmad Dar hails from Kawoosa village in Budgam district and was spotted during a talent hunt in Srinagar. He went on to represent the country globally. He demonstrated tremendous skill, dedication and tenacity and won a silver and bronze medal at the Asian Junior Championship, (2019),
Due to a knee injury, he suffered in the quarter-finals, Hussamuddin had to give a walkover and settle for bronze in his debut World Championships campaign
The 22-year-old Indian boxer Nishant Dev who clinched bronze medal in IBA Men's World Boxing Championships 2023 in Tashkent, expressed his desire to achieve more success in the upcoming tournament.
The Indian contingent has also done well in the fifth Asian Youth Athletics Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The team finished overall second behind China and brought home a total of 24 medals, including six gold, 11 silver, and seven bronze in the Under-18 championship.
Deepak displayed unwavering grit against the two-time Worlds bronze medallist Billal Bennama of France and went down 3-4 in the semifinals after the bout was reviewed at the championship held in Tashkent last month
Manini shot 415.6 in the final, which was won by Briton Seonaid McIntosh who finished with 467.0. China's double Olympic medallist Li Yuehong won the other final of the concluding day, the men's 25m rapid-fire pistol (RFP), helping his country top the medal tally with four gold, one silver a
With three bronze, India ranked joint fourth in the medals tally at the prestigious tournament with hosts Uzbekistan (9), Cuba and Russia (6 each) and Kazakhstan (5) taking up the top three spots.
Atanu Das, who had scored 673 points to claim the fourth spot in the Men's Recurve individual rankings, was making a return to international outdoor competition after nearly one-and-a-half years. Other big names to be included in TOPS is Rifle shooter Mehuli Ghosh who won the 10m Air Rifle e