Shooters Anjum, Mehuli continue their golden run

NEW DELHI: Anjum Moudgil and Mehuli Ghosh continued their golden run in the women’s air rifle events at the 62nd National Shooting Championship in Trivandrum on Tuesday.

Anjum won her third gold partnering Arjun Babuta to help Punjab win the 10m air rifle mixed team event. The Punjab pair was too good in the finals, outclassing the field with a score of 497.3.

West Bengal’s Mehuli won her fifth and sixth gold medals in the competition by annexing the junior and youth mixed team titles to go with her women’s junior and youth individual and team golds won earlier.

Mehuli partnered Abhinav Shaw, both in the junior and youth mixed team events, to strike gold with 498.2 score in the Junior final. In the youth final, they went even better with a score of 498.8.

TOP RANK SIGNS BOXING STAR VIJENDER

LOS ANGLES: India’s professional boxer Vijender Singh has signed a multi-year agreement with Top Rank, Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum announced on Tuesday.

The 2008 Olympic bronze med- allist, and current unbeaten super middleweight Vijender, who has fought all but one of his professional bouts in India and England, will make his debut under the Top Rank banner in early 2019, according to a statement.

ACROBATIC GYMNASTS BAG 2 BRONZE MEDALS

NEW DELHI: Indian gymnasts won two bronze medals in the men’s and women’s group events of the FIG Acrobatic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku.

Prins Aris, Siddhesh Bhosle, Rushikesh More and Rejilesh Suribabu finished third after scoring 20.560 in the two-day event to bag the bronze medal.

The Indian women’s trio of Ayushi Ghodeswar, Prachi Parkhi and Mrunmayi Walde also bagged a bronze in the group after scoring 18.200.

MANPREET SIGNS UP WITH ADIDAS

NEW DELHI: Indian men’s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh on Tuesday signed up with global sports giant, Adidas ahead of the season-ending World Cup to be played in Bhubaneswar from November 28 to December 16.