Sushil, Sakshi to lead 60-member team

NEW DELHI: Double Olympic Games medallist Sushil Kumar and Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Mali kare heading a 60-member contingent that will compete in the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship, which gets underway at Johannesburg from Saturday. Wrestling Federation of India has fielded two wrestlers each in the 10 weight categories in freestyle event in both men’s and women’s group. India has also entered a 20-member team in Greco-Roman.

CHIKKA FIGHTING TO SAVE HIS CARD

JAKARTA: S Chikkarangappa finally found some rhythm as he added a 5-under 67 to his firstround 4-under 68 to sit nicely at tied-6th place in the Indonesian Master son Friday. Chikka is now six shots behind England’ s Justin Rose who continued to stay ahead of the chasing pack. Chikka, lying 67th on the Money list, needs to get into top-61 to save his Asian Tour card.

DOUBLE FOR SANJIVANI IN INTER-VARSITY MEET

NEWDELHI: Distance runner San- jivani Jadhav of Maharashtra scored a grand double in the All India Inter-varsity track and field meet at Guntur. On Friday, she clocked 33 minutes 14.16 seconds in women’s 10,000m, to improve her meet record of33:33.97 secs to secure her second gold in the competition. Earlier, she had won gold in the 5,000 mr ace with a meet record.

NAVY TRIUMPH

NEWDELHI: Navy beat Armoured Corps (Black) 8-4 while Armoured Corps (Red) defeated RVC 7-4 in the last round league matches of the Armoured Corps Polo Trophy (4 goal) tournament at the Army Equestrian Centre, here on Friday.