Khade wins gold at Singapore swimming meet
SINGAPORE:Young swimmer Virdhawal Khade, continued his winning streak with a gold in 50m freestyle at the Singapore National Age Group Swimming Championships. Competing against a host of international swimmers, Khade swam his season’s best time of 23.02 sec to win.
The 26-year-old had also bagged silver in 50m freestyle at the same event. “This was a good place to start. It feels great winning for the country. Honestly, I expected a faster time, but I’ll take this,” he said.
BENGAL BEAT MANIPUR
KOLKATA: Bengal began their title defence with a 3-0 defeat of Manipur, while Kerala hammered Chandigarh 5-1 on the opening day of the national football championship for the 72nd Santosh Trophy on Monday. Sumit Das struck a double (6’,15’) to give Bengal a 2-0 lead before half-time. Bidyasagar sealed the issue with a 82nd minute goal. In the other group A fixture, Jithin MS struck a brace (11’ 51’), while Sajith Poulose (18’), Afdal V K (49’) and Sreekuttan V S (77’) scored one.
ADITI FINISHES T-26TH
PHOENIX: Indian golfer Aditi Ashok seemed to have regained her form on the final day as she carded six birdies en route to a week’s best card of four-under 68 to finish T-26 at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup on the LPGA. The 19-year-old Indian had three birdies against one bogey on either side of the turn and took her total from four-under 212 and Tied50th place to eight-under 280 and Tied-26th place.
AIU BEAT CRPF
LUCKNOW: Association of Indian Universities (AIU) got the better of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 5-2 to grab the top spot in their group while Petroleum Sports Promotion Board defeated Services Sports Control Board 4-3 in the Senior National Hockey Championship. Also winning their matches were Hockey Gangpur-Odisha against Hockey Jharkhand (6-1) and Hockey Bhopal
ADVANI WINS 4-0
YANGON: Multiple-time world champion Pankaj Advani made a rampaging start to his title defence at the 17th Asian Billiards Championship, outclassing Singapore’s Yeo Teck Shin 4-0 in the opening match. Rupesh Shah too came up with an identical win against Indonesia’s Marlando Sihombing.
In the women’s snooker individual event, India’s Vidya Pillai and Amee Kamani came up with contrasting wins against Myanmar cueists.