Junior skeet shooters claim silver, bronze at worlds
CHANGWON, SOUTH KOREA: India’s junior shooters scaled another high by delivering the country’s first set of skeet medals at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships — a men’s team silver and an individual bronze by Gurnihal Singh Garcha on Tuesday.
Before this edition of the world championship, India had won all its shotgun medals in the trap and double trap disciplines. This will be the first time that Indian skeet shooters will come back with medals from the premiere competition.
PANGHAL NOMINATED FOR ARJUNA AWARD
NEW DELHI: Amit Panghal was on Tuesday nominated for this year’s Arjuna awards by the Boxing Federation of India. Amit, who claimed the light flyweight (49kg) category gold after defeating reigning Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan in the Asiad final, joined Sonia Lather and Gaurav Bidhuri in the list of boxing nominees. There were doubts on whether he would be considered given a positive dope test back in 2012, for which he served a oneyear ban.
However, given the fact that he is done with the punishment for the “inadvertent” violation and that it happened when he was competing at the youth level, the BFI decided to send his name to the Ministry.
“I was a teenager and had come to my village after being diagnosed with chicken pox, there was probably something in the medicine that the doctor gave me,” Amit said.
JUSTICE MUDGAL TO HEAD AWARDS PANEL
NEW DELHI: Justice Mukul Mudgal, who headed the Supreme Court-appointed probe into the 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal, has been named chairman of the 11-member selection committee to pick this year’s Dronacharya and Dhyanchand awardees.
BOXERS LOVLINA, RITU START WITH WINS
NEW DELHI: Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) and Ritu Grewal (51kg) notched up contrasting wins in the opening round of 13th International Silesian Championship for women in in Gliwice, Poland.
TVESA, AMANDEEP SET TO RENEW BATTLE
GURGAON: Tvesa Malik and Amandeep Drall will renew the battle for top honours at the DLF Golf and Country Club in the 14th leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour on Wednesday.