Gaganjeet Bhullar of India on Monday won the $300,000 BANK BRI-JCB Indonesia Open for the second time in his career after closing with a four-under-p
Reigning Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge lived up to the pre-race hype in his first competitive outing since Rio, winning the ninth Airtel Delhi Half
Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu clinched her maiden Super Series Premier title after edging out Sun Yu of China in the finals of the USD 700,000
Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya expectedly won the men’s race of Delhi Half Marathon in a fast time but below the course r
Manavjit beats Raninder for gold
Kamesh Srinivasan JAIPUR: He has won the title numerous times, but this was special as the former World champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu beat Raninder Singh, the president of the National Rifle Association of India, 14-13 for gold in the 60th National shotgun championships here on Saturday.After the disappointment of missing the trap final in the Olympics and the subsequent criticism that he had not been at his best in four Olympics, the six-time Asian champion Manavjit put things together to focus on the simple taSindhu reach semifinals of China Open
PTI Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu advanced to the semifinals of the China Open after defeating local favourite He Bingjiao in straight games at the USD 700,000 Super Series Premier event, here today.Seventh seed Sindhu notched up a 22-20 21-10 win over Bingjiao, who has won four titles — Bitburger Open, French Open, Japan Open and Swiss Open — this season in women’s singles competition.The 21-year-old from Hyderabad will take on the winner of the match between Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi and sixth
Victorious Soumya closes in on Padmini; Exciting finale on cards
Rakesh Rao The stage is set for an exciting finale of the National women chess championship after Soumya Swaminathan pulled off a much-needed victory over Swati Ghate and moved within half a point of the leader Padmini Rout following the 10th and penultimate round here on Sunday.With the title at stake, Padmini played it safe against Mary Ann Gomes and took her tally to 7.5 points. Soumya, lucky to win after Swati blundered away a knight in an equal position, moved to seven. Eesha Karavade and S. Vijayalak