Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday flagged off the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Chess maestro Viswanathan Anand, and several other prominent people were present in an ostentatious ceremony at the sprawling Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai. PM Modi, while opening the ceremony, said, "The 44th Chess Olympiad has been a tournament of many firsts and records. This is the first time the Chess Olympiad is being held in the place of origin of chess, India. It is coming to Asia for the first time in 3 decades." The celebrated event has
On Sunday, Indian Wrestler Priya Malik dominates the U17 World Wrestling Championship by winning a gold medal in the 73 kg category. She retained her title by defeating Ukraine's Mariia Zenkina 10-0. Earlier she had won the top prize in July last year and became the first Indian woman wrestler to win the title ever. Malik first defeated Kaiulani Garcia in the qualification match by 3-1 and Poland’s Dominika Pochowska in the quarterfinal by 10-0 before defeating Kazakhstan’s Alina Yertostik by 4-0 in the semifinal. Along with Malik, Ritika Kataria also won another gold for the nation
Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam won the women's 55 kg weightlifting silver medal for India at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Weightlifters from India performed exceptionally well on Day 2, as Bindyarani was the fourth Indian to win a medal. In the snatch event, she lifted 86kg to finish in third place. She scripted a CWG record with a lift of 116 kg for the clean and jerk round. She also set a personal best. She began her first effort by lifting 81 kg in the snatch round, then 84 kg after that, and finally, 86 kg in the third round. while the record-breaking 116kg clean and jerk li
Manpreet Singh and PV Sindhu were part of the Indian delegation at theCommonwealth Games 2022 opening ceremony in Birmingham. Among the Asian nations, India was the third nation to walk out after Bangladesh and Brunei. The quadrennial event will conclude on August 8 with 215 athletes from 16 diversified disciplines representing India. Sindhu was the flag bearer for India for the second time. earlier she did it at the Commonwealth Games on Gold Coast four years ago. She said "It's a great honor to be bestowed with the responsibility to lead the contingent and hold the flag at such an august
On Tuesday, Teenager Suraj Vashisht became the first Indian to win Gold at Greco-Roman U17 World Championship in 1990, in Rome. The last gold won in Greco-Roman Cadet World Championship was Pappu Yadav 32 years ago. Up until Vashisht's victory, five different Indian grapplers have reached the U17 World Championships final but none have achieved gold. At the Junior Worlds in 1992, Yadav won the last gold medal for India at any level at the GR Worlds. Hence, there hasn't been an Indian Greco Roman World Champion in the past 30 years. Defeating Azerbaijan's Faraim Mustafayev in the 55kg we
Nigerian Tobi Amusan won gold in the 100 meters hurdles final at the World Championships held in Eugene, United States, becoming the first sportsperson from her country to bag gold at such an event. On Sunday, the 25-year-old clocked 12.12 seconds in the semi-final at Hayward Field, which was initially announced as a world record but was later ruled out, as the wind speed surpassed the legal limit. In the final, she made a slow start but recovered to give a perfect performance over the barriers, 0.17 seconds clear of Jamaican silver medallist Britany Anderson. “The goal was to come
On Friday, 22-year-old McLaughlin beats second-place finisher, Femke Bol of the Netherlands and sets a new world record by 1.59 seconds. For the fourth time in 13 months, McLaughlin ran for 400-meter hurdles at the World Championship in 50.68 seconds by shattering her old mark by 0.73 seconds. In an absurd amount for a race of this length and a period of time that, prior to McLaughlin, had required 33 years to shorten. Her main opponent, Dalilah Muhammad came third by finishing third in 53.13 seconds. It was one of the must-see events in the track which McLaughlin declared she had run a pe
On Sunday, ‘India’s Golden Boy’ Neeraj Chopra created yet another milestone in Indian history by winning India its very first silver medal in the World Athletics Championships 2022. His best effort of 88.13m in Hayward Field was a little short of Anderson Peter’s gold medal mark of 90.54. In the meantime, Jakub Vadlejch won his bronze with 88.09m. Neeraj Chopra ended India’s 19-year-old wait for a medal by winning the first podium finish and second medal at the World Championship. Anju Bobby George's bronze medal at the Paris 2003 world championships was India's first medal at th
Norah Jeruto won the women’s 3,000 meters steeplechase gold, creating a World Championships record while China’s Feng Bin defeated Olympic champion Valerie Allman in the discus final in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday. The former Kenyan National Jeruto, who switched allegiance to Kazakhstan earlier this year, clocked eight minutes, 53.02 seconds, the third-fastest time ever, surpassing the previous winner Beatrice Chepkoech’s mark in Doha in 2019, by five seconds. Ethiopian Werkuha Getachew claimed silver, while her compatriot Mekides Abebe settled for bronze. “At the starting li
India finished their ISSF Shooting World Cup campaign in Changwon on Wednesday by leading the medal tally with a haul of 15 medals, including five gold, six silver, and four bronze. On the tournament's last day, the Indian trio of Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu, and Sameer bagged the silver in the men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol team event. The Indians were expected to top the podium and, at one point, had a good lead of 10-2 against the formidable Czech side of Martin Podhrasky, Tomas Tehan, and Matej Rampula. But the Indians were panicky and went down 15-17 to finish second. In the ske