On Monday, 18-year-old Indian lifter Harshada Garud won the women's 45kg gold medal at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The championship is being held from July 15 to July 25, 2022. Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) athlete and weightlifter Garud won the yellow metal after putting in a total effort of four kilograms. The Pune lifter made history in May this year by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at the world junior championships. This time the aggregate was 157kgs (69kg+88kg), which was better than her junior world championshi
Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won the men's marathon in a dominant style at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday. Tola clinched the Gold as he finished the race in 125 minutes 37 seconds, breaking the previous best record held by Kenya's Abel Kirui, who clocked 126 minutes 54 seconds in Berlin in 2009. The cool conditions offered by the 6.15 am local start time offered an advantage to the Ethiopian, who, with a sustained acceleration, continued to move towards the finishing line. Mosinet Geremew won his second successive silver while Belgium’s Bashir Abdi claimed a bronze, bagging hi
Veteran Indian shooter Mairaj Ahmed Khan scripted history on Monday by winning the first-ever ISSF World Cup gold medal for the country in men's skeet in Changwon. In the 40-shot final, the double Olympian shot 37 to finish ahead of Korea's Minsu Kim (36) and Britain's Ben Llewellin (26), who clinched the silver and bronze, respectively. Khan is the oldest member of the Indian contingent in Changwon this year. He shot 119/125 during two days of qualifying before winning his first individual gold. The 46-year-old from Uttar Pradesh bagged a silver at the 2016 World Cup in
Ace Indian badminton player and Olympic medalist PV Sindhu clinched the Singapore Open 2022 title after overpowering China's Wang Zhi Yi in the women's singles final on Sunday. Playing on court 1, Sindhu won the match by 21-9, 11-21, and 21-15. She had an excellent start, winning the first game by an impressive margin. Zhi Yi rose to action in the next game, winning it by 11-21. In the final game, the top Indian shuttler kept her calm to claim it 21-15 and win the title. PV Sindhu moved on to the finals of the women's singles category by defeating Japan's Saena Kawakami in the semifinals o
94-year-old Haryana sprinter Bhagwani Devi Dagar won a gold and two bronze for India at the Tampere World Masters Athletics championships 2022 in Finland. She won the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint with an excellent timing of 24.74 seconds. The World Masters Athletics Championships were held between June 29 - July 10 in Tamper. It is a world championship-caliber event for track and field athletic events for male and female athletes aged 35 and above. Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday congratulated 94-year-old Bhagwani Devi for br
Novak Djokovic claimed his seventh Wimbledon men’s singles title by beating Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Centre Court on Sunday. This was also the Serbian star's 21st Grand Slam singles title. Djokovic took charge of the match late in the third set, then used his signature mix of relentless steeliness and hardcore discipline to keep the 40th-ranked Kyrgios, who found it challenging to keep up the pace, at bay to win the match in 3 hours 1 minute. Djokovic stated after the match, "This tournament has a special place in my heart because it's always been my
At age 23-year-old Elena Rybakia from Kazakhstan became the first player representing the Central Asian nation to win a Grand Slam singles title. She defeated Ons Jabeur from Tunisia by 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon finals on July 9. Born in Moscow, Rybakina is the youngest woman to win the Wimbledon title since 2011, when Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic broke the record first. Rybakina would not have been permitted to play at this year's Wimbledon if she hadn't switched allegiances from Russia to Kazakhstan four years ago. Her win at Wimbledon was the first by a woman ranked outside
At Wimbledon, Ons Jabeur became the first Arab or North African woman to reach a Grand Slam singles semifinal by rallying from a set down to defeat Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. Jabeur, who lost both of her previous Grand Slam quarterfinal matches in straight sets, was slow to start against Bouzkova. Third-seeded player Jennifer Capriati lost her opening set in the tournament against a motivated Czech opponent In recent years, Jabeur has set record after record for Arab players. It was her first Grand Slam quarterfinals at the Australian Open in 2020. She became th
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra secured his first top-3 finish at the celebrated Diamond League Meeting with a national record-breaking effort but narrowly missed the 90m mark on Thursday. World champion Anderson Peters of Grenada won the contest with a best throw of 90.3 in his third attempt. The 24-year-old Chopra’s opening throw of 89.94m, just 6cm short of the 90m mark, the gold level in the world of javelin throw and that attempt resulted in his best as he finished second. His other throws measured 84.37m, 87.46m, 84.77m, 86.67, and 86.84m. Chopra had finished second in the Paa
P.V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, two stalwarts of Indian badminton, faced different fates at the Malaysia Open Super 750 tournament, with the former advancing to the second round and the latter crashing out after losing her opener. In 37 minutes, Sindhu defeated Thailand's world number 10 Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-13 21-17, but London Olympic bronze medalist Saina lost to the 33rd-ranked American Iris Wang 11-21 17-21. In the next round, Sindhu will face Phittayaporn Chaiwan, a 21-year-old from Thailand who ranked number one in the world junior rankings and participated in the Uber Cup team.