Lahiri, Joshi T10 after storm-hit 1st round in Indonesia

JAKARTA: American John Catlin fired a six-under-par 66 to share a one-shot lead with qualifying school graduate Lee Sung-ho of South Korea in the opening round of the Indonesian Masters on Thursday. India’s Anirban Lahiri and Khalin Joshi were both tied 10th with scores of fourunder-par 68. With severe thunderstorm forcing play to be abandoned for the day, Shubhankar Sharma was placed tied 130th after a forgettable four-over-par 56 in 13 holes.

RASHID PULLS AHEAD

MUMBAI: Two-time Asian Tour winner Rashid Khan’s eight-under-62 in round two of the PGTI’S CG Open helped him pull ahead of the rest by three shots here on Thursday. The Delhi golfer, who produced a sensational run of six straight birdies during his errorfree round at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club (BPGC), now has a total of 10-under-130.

NEHA, AFSHAN SHARE LEAD IN KOLKATA

KOLKATA: Afshan Fatima took advantage of a mid-round lapse of concentration from Neha Tripathi to take a share of the lead after two rounds in the 18th and final leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour here Thursday. Afshan, who was lying second with a round of 73 on the first day, added a no-frills card of 74 to get to 147, while Neha, who followed her first round 70 with a 77, clearly let the advantage slip.

Ravi Kumar, Deepak Kumar (10m air rifle); Abhishek Verma, Saurabh Chaudhary, OP Mitharwal (10m air pistol); Sanjeev Rajput (50m rifle 3 pos); Anish Bhanwala (25m rapid fire) Kynan Chenai (trap); Lakshay Sheoran (trap); Angad Veer Singh Bajwa (skeet) Women: Apurvi Chandela, Elavenil Valarivan, Mehuli Ghosh (10m air rifle); Anjum Moudgil (10m air rifle and 50m rifle 3 pos); Manu Bhaker (10m and 25m pistol); Rahi Sarnobat (25m pistol). Tennis: Divij Sharan and Rohan Bopanna; Table Tennis: A Sharath Kamal; G Sathiyan; Manika Batra.

POLICE ATHLETICS

NEW DELHI: Ravinder Routela of Uttarakhand Police won the 5000m event, clocking 14:42.17 sec in the All India Police Athletics Championship being organised by CISF.

Other winners: (Women) 5000m Meenu (Raj, 16:38.32 sec); Javelin: Rupinder Kaur (Pun, 53.42m); 400mh: Veerpal Kaur Sr (Pun, 0:58.64 sec);

B3 Javelin: Chandrakala BS 19.01m; B3 Long Jump: Varsha Bhise 3.65m; B3 Discus: Kavya V 18.58m; B3 100m: Pusarapu Anusha 15.83s; B3 Shotput: Netravathi V 6.3m; B2 800m: B Jayalakshmi 2.42.63sec; B2 Javelin: Kukadiya Takhuben 20.72m.

B3 Javelin: Manjeet 43.51m; B2 400m: Munna Rajak 00:55:59sec.

NATIONAL SQUASH

NEWDELHI: Top seed Mahesh Mangaonkar beat Naveen Jangra 11-4, 11-5, 11-2 to enter the quarter-finals of the National Squash Championship. Gaurav Nandrajog beat Suhail Kapur 11-4, 12-10, 11-5 to enter quarters.

Results (R16): Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (2) bt Ashish Patel 11-5 11-3 11-5; Joshana Chinappa (1) bt Sunidhi Pandey 11-0, 11-2, 11-1; Tanvi Khanna bt Sunayna Kuruvilla 11-6, 11-4, 9-11, 11-6.