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Manu, Arjun among day-1 winners at Rifle/Pistol selection trials
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Manu Bhaker outgunned on-the-comeback trail local favourite Chinki Yadav 31-29 in the medal match to clinch the women's 25m pistol title. Rhythm Sangwan won bronze through a shoot-off with Neha. Rhythm had topped the qualifying stage with a 583 ahead of Manu (580), with Chinki qualifying six
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MOC approves CWG Medallist Avinash Sable's proposal to train in Switzerlan
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Sable, along with his coach Scott Simons are scheduled to train at St. Moritz from August 7th till August 16th (10 days), before heading out to Budapest, Hungary for the World Championships.
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Neeraj Chopra to begin Diamond League title defence in May
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Olympic javelin champion and world silver medallist Neeraj Chopra - the Indian national record holder with a best of 89.94m - will join world champion Anderson Peters (GRN) and Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch (CZE) in a much-anticipated javelin competition at the Doha Meeting on May
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Mir focused on Austin return as Bradl substitutes Marquez
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Repsol Honda Team, with Joan Mir and Stefan Bradl, head for the Circuit of the Americas looking for redemption and to capture past form. The 5.51-kilometre-long circuit has previously been a happy hunting ground for the RC213V with Marc Marquez guiding it to victory on seven occasions, u
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Asian Wrestling Championships: Nisha wins silver, Priya gets bronze
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The remaining five Indian women wrestlers - U20 world champion Antim Paghal (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg), Manisha (65kg) and Reetika Hooda (72kg) - will be competing on Wednesday.
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MP woman overcomes her disability to become first international medallist
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Pooja Ojha, a resident of Bhind district, belongs to a poor farmer's family and with around 80 percent disability (due to polio) has bagged a silver medal in World championship. She has also been felicitated by the President of India Droupadi Murmu.
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Asian Wrestling Championships 2023: India start off campaign with three me
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Rupin, who is 19 years old, finished with his first medal, a silver on the international senior circuit after losing the championship match 3-1 to Iran's Pouya Dadmarz, the current U-23 world champion, as per Olympics.com
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Asian Wrestling C'ships 2023: Deepak Punia, Sarita Mor, Antim Panghal amon
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
India has plenty of firepower in the lineup to make an impression at the 36th iteration of the continental competition, despite the big names missing the Asian championship. The Indian wrestling squad is headed to Astana and includes medalists from previous world championships Deepak Punia,
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Shiva Thapa, Deepak Bhoria to lead Indian squad for IBA Men's World Boxing
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Shiva, who won a World Championships bronze medal in Doha, Qatar in 2015 will be looking to add another medal to his name. He will be representing the country in the 63.5 kg category
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World Boxing champion Nikhat Zareen receives rousing welcome in Hyderabad
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Last week, Nikhat Zareen claimed her second World Boxing Championship gold and retained the title, becoming only the second Indian female athlete to have two World Championship gold medals to her name
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Assam Governor felicitates Lovlina Borgohain
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Olympic medallist boxer Lovlina Borgohain recently won the gold medal in the IBA Women's Boxing World Championship held in New Delhi.
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BWF rankings: PV Sindhu drops out of women's singles top 10 for first time
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Sindhu made it to the top ten for the first time in August 2013 and has been amongst the elite shuttlers worldwide since November 2016. The former world champion's best ranking is world number 2 on April 2017.
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