Sushil, Sakshi to lead 60-member team
NEW DELHI: Double Olympic Games medallist Sushil Kumar and Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Malik are 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 Masters on 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 Sanjivani 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 of 33:33.97 secs to secure her second gold in the competition. Earlier, she had won gold in the 5,000m race with a meet record. The men’s 10,000m title went to Ranjeet Kumar Patel from Mangalore University. His winning time of 29 min 45.81 secs was 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. Top teams from each pool will meet in the final to be played on Saturday.
I WILL LEAVE VIJENDER BROKEN: AMUZU
NEW DELHI: African champion Ernest Amuzu has threatened to leave star boxer Vijender Singh “beaten and broken” when they clash at Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium in Jaipur.
“I have just heard his name. I will take great delight in handing Vijender his first loss and left him beaten and broken in front of his home crowd,” the African boxer said. His health has been precarious since a 2013 skiing accident left him in a coma. The 48-year-old has seven F1 titles to his name. He is one of six athletes to top the Forbes highest-paid athletes list since 1990.