Indian sports activities information wrap: March 24

BOXING

Haryana boxers verify 19 medals at third Sub Junior Nationwide Championship

Persevering with its dominant present within the match, 19 Haryana boxers entered semifinals and confirmed their medals on the third Sub Junior Nationwide Championship on the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports activities Advanced in Larger Noida.

The ladies from Haryana managed to safe 10 medals whereas the boys sealed the semifinals berth in 9 classes to guarantee themselves of a minimum of bronze medals.

Bhoomi (35kg) and Nischal Sharma (37kg) began the day for Haryana in women with contrasting victories. Bhoomi thrashed Delhi’s Apeksha in a bout that ended with the referee stopping the competition in spherical three whereas Nischal needed to work onerous towards S Sarah of Tamil Nadu throughout her thrilling 3-2 win.

Diksha (40kg), Diya (61kg), Sukhreet (64kg) and Manshi Malik (67+kg) clinched equivalent wins with a unanimous 5-0 choice.

Rakhi (43kg) and Navya (55kg) received their respective bouts with RSC selections. Rakhi confronted Mizoram’s Malsawmdawngkimi whereas Navya was up towards Andhra Pradesh’s Naga Navya.

Khushika (49kg) and Naitik (52kg) had been the opposite Haryana boxers to progress into the semifinals.

Extending his profitable kind within the boys class Uday Singh (37kg) grabbed a straightforward 5-0 win over Mizoram’s Jerry Varte.

Nitin (40kg), Ravi Sihag (49kg), Naman (58kg), Siddhant (61kg), and Kartik Dagar (70kg) additionally received their respective quarterfinals bout with an identical 5-0 choice.

Sanchit Jayani (46kg), Lakshay (52kg) and Anmol Dahiya (64kg) from Haryana additionally made their approach into the semifinals with a win.

In the meantime, Uttarakhand’s six pugilists entered the boys semifinals and eight women from Delhi confirmed medals after profitable their quarterfinals bout.

– PTI

FOOTBALL

Barboza’s twin strikes give Delhi FC 2-0 win towards Gokulam

Twin strikes within the second half by substitute Brazilian striker Sergio Barboza helped Delhi FC register a 2-0 win over a 10-man Gokulam Kerala FC in an I-League match right here.

The house aspect was lowered to 10 males within the fortieth minute when a tough deal with from Mashoor Shereef on Balwant on the fringe of the field earned the defender a pink card late on Saturday.

Following the win, Delhi FC is now seventh on the desk with 26 factors from 21 video games. Gokulam Kerala is in fifth spot with 36 factors from 22 matches.

Gokulam wingers had been responsible of losing a number of alternatives within the first half following which Delhi FC slowly grew into the sport and even threatened the rival citadel by way of a solo effort from former India worldwide Balwant Singh.

Having fallen out of the title race too appeared to have dampened the spirits of Gokulam forwards as they lacked the killer contact.

The person benefit after the fortieth minute pink card gave Delhi the impetus within the second half with Barboza, who was launched within the fifty fifth minute, displaying his Brazilian aptitude to torment the Gokulam defence.

After having been performed by way of by a fellow substitute Tondomba Naorem, Barboza outpaced his markers and slotted his shot into the underside nook to present Delhi the lead.

Barboza scored the second aim with three minutes of regulation time left, latching on to Hudson Dias’ by way of ball earlier than blasting it in.

– PTI

TENNIS

ITF males’s match: Khumoyun Sultanov beats second seed Ramkumar Ramanathan

High seed Khumoyun Sultanov of Uzbekistan beat second seed Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2 within the closing of the HPCL-Mittal $15,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the CLTA Advanced on Sunday.

It was the sixth singles title within the skilled circuit for the 25-year-old Sultanov, who transformed three of 5 break factors within the match.

The 29-year-old Ramkumar had received the title within the $25,000 occasion in Delhi final week, however couldn’t convert any of the seven break factors that he pressured this present day. Ramkumar served 11 aces within the match that spanned an hour and 33 minutes.

The defeat aside, it was a commendable effort from Ramkumar, as he had competed in 4 Challengers earlier after having performed the Davis Cup in Islamabad towards Pakistan. In between, he had additionally competed within the PSPB inter-unit match.

After eight weeks of steady tennis, Ramkumar had performed properly to play 5 matches of singles on a wild card, as he had not initially entered the occasion.

The outcomes (closing): Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Arjun and Jeevan lose closing

Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan had been crushed 7-5, 6-1 by the highest seeds Theo Arribage and Victor Cornea within the doubles closing of the €74,825 Challenger tennis match in Murcia, Spain.

The champion group collected $4,250 and 75 ATP factors. The Indian pair received $2,450 and 50 factors.

The outcomes:

€74,825 Challenger, Murcia, Spain

Doubles (closing): Theo Arribage (Fra) & Victor Cornea (Rou) bt Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 7-5, 6-1.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Neergaard-Petersen wins title

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen held his nerve on the ultimate day to win the Kolkata Problem on the Royal Calcutta Golf Membership course right here on Sunday.

The Dane, who had a four-stroke lead in a single day, scored one-under 71 within the closing spherical to complete 272 and win his maiden Problem Tour title by two pictures.

Dwelling challenger Rahil Gangjee and David Horsey had been joint second.

The scores (fourth spherical; Indians until specified):

272-Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den) (68, 65, 68, 71); 274-David Horsey (Eng) (69, 71, 67, 67), Rahil Gangjee (70, 68, 67, 69); 277-Alexander Levy (Fra) (70, 69, 68, 70); 278-Kristoffer Broberg (Swe) (70, 72, 67, 69), Veer Ahlawat (67, 70, 70, 71), Mikael Lindberg (Swe) (70, 69, 66, 73); 279-Wil Besseling (Ned) (68, 69, 72, 70), Om Prakash Chouhan (72, 69, 68, 70), Angad Cheema (70, 70, 67, 72).

-Y.B Sarangi

Shubankar Sharma finishes tied seventh at Singapore Traditional

Shubhankar Sharma briefly shared the lead on the again 9 of the ultimate day, however the Indian dropped two essential pictures and completed tied-seventh on the Porsche Singapore Traditional right here on Sunday.

Sharma, who has two wins on the DP World Tour, the second of which got here in 2018, shot rounds of 68-669-68-71 for a 12-under complete and ended 5 behind the eventual winner, Jesper Svensson, who beat Kiradech Aphibarnrat on the third play-off gap.

Svensson and Kiradech had been tied at 17-under as the previous birdied his two closing holes and the latter eagled the 18th after working up three birdies in a row from 14th to the sixteenth.

For Sharma, who now travels to his residence occasion, the Hero Indian Open subsequent week, it was his first top-10 of 2024.

Sharma, beginning the day 11-under, was going nice weapons and bought to 14-under with birdies on the third, seventh and eighth.

A dropped shot on the ninth took away some momentum after which he had bogeys on the twelfth and the seventeenth with one birdie in between on the thirteenth.

Svensson matched the course file with a closing 63 at Laguna Nationwide Golf Resort Membership to get to 17 underneath however wanted further holes to edge out Kiradech, who had a shocking end for a 64.

Each males made birdie on the primary journey up the final after which exchanged a pair of pars earlier than Aphibarnrat went over the again and made a bogey, leaving Svensson two putts for par and his maiden DPWT victory.

The 28-year-old made his breakthrough final 12 months together with his victory on the B-NL Problem Trophy on the European Problem Tour earlier than securing taking part in privileges through the Street to Mallorca Rankings.

He has already completed runner-up twice on the 2024 Race to Dubai – on the Investec South African Open Championship and the Bahrain Championship – and has now entered the winner’s circle on solely his 14th look.

-PTI

Zara Anand finishes tied twelfth at Queen Sirikit Cup

Zara Anand, who made her debut right here, completed as the highest Indian in tied twelfth place after a closing spherical of even par 72 within the Queen Sirikit Cup on Sunday.

The 16-year-old had rounds of 73-77-74-72 for a complete of 8-over on the Clearwater Golf Membership.

The opposite Indians Vidhatri Urs (79-77-73-79) was tied twenty fourth and Heena Kang (85-76-74-78) was thirty second.

Within the group competitors, India completed tied ninth.

Korea continued its dominance right here with a high quality efficiency on the ultimate day. Tied on the high with Australia in the beginning of the final spherical, the Koreans steered clear on the again of sensible bogey-free rounds of 65 and 68 from Oh Soo-min and Kim Shi-hyun.

Lee Hyo-song posted a 70 that was highlighted by a hole-in-one on the third, however her rating was not required within the occasion during which the perfect two every day returns in every three-strong group are counted.

With a fourth-round complete of 133, the Koreans ended with a 72-hole mixture of nine-under 567.

That was seven pictures away from the Japanese trio of Mamika Shinchi, Aina Fujimoto and Saori Iijima who pipped the Australians by one stroke to say second place.

For Korea, it was their twenty third triumph within the Novice Women Asia-Pacific Invitational Golf Workforce Championship that was launched in 1979.

It was their 14th win out of the final 16, having missed out solely in 2013 and 2022.

-PTI

Diksha Dagar finishes twenty sixth on Epson Tour

Diksha Dagar rounded off the week on the Atlantic Seaside Traditional with an eagle-birdie closing to complete tied-26 on the Atlantic Seaside Nation Membership right here on the Epson Tour occasion.

Rookie Briana Chacon hung round all week earlier than she lastly made a splash and got here down the stretch.

Chacon had by no means held a share of the lead all week till the final three holes of the occasion, as she completed her match birdie-par-birdie to lastly seize the solo lead, which she had been chasing all week.

Jessica Porvasnik (69) and Kim Kaufman (71) had been tied for the second.

Diksha, who was tied-15 final week on the IOA Golf Traditional in Florida, bogeyed the third and the eighth after which completed with an eagle two on par-4 seventeenth and birdied the par-5 18th, for a 1-under 71 and a complete of 1-over.

She is going to now take a break and play on the Women European Tour subsequent month.

-PTI

ATHLETICS

Elite athletes excel at Nationwide Open Relay Carnival

Kerala’s worldwide quarter-miler Noah Nirmal Tom anchored Nationwide Camp A group to victory within the males’s 4x400m relay occasion on the inaugural version of the Nationwide Open Relay Carnival on Sunday.

Nationwide Camp A group consisting of Arokia Rajiv, Muhammed Ajmal, Muhammed Yahiya and Noah Nirmal Tom clocked 3:05.71 seconds to win gold.

Noah Nirmal Tom was additionally a member of the Nationwide Camp A Blended 4x400m relay group that received gold with a time of three:17.37 seconds.

Different members of the gold medal profitable group had been Poovamma MR, Muhammed Yahiya and R Vithya Ramraj.

The ladies’s 4x400m title went to Nationwide Camp A group of R Vithya Ramraj, Poovamma MR, Dandi Sri and Rupal Chaudhary. The feminine athletes gave a superb account of themselves and clocked 3:28.64 seconds to win gold.

Aside from senior the relay competitors was additionally performed in U20 group.

– PTI