Indian men slip to fourth; women’s team ninth in FIH rankings

India on Tuesday slipped a spot to fourth in the latest FIH men’s world rankings with Germany taking the third place following an impressive run at the Hockey Olympic Qualifiers.

India (2761) had directly qualified for the Paris Olympics through the Asian Games gold last year and didn’t need to play in the recentlyconcluded Olympic Qualifiers.

Netherlands (3060) continue to sit at the top, coming back from the India leg of the FIH Pro League with two draws and a loss.

In women’s rankings, India (2215), which failed to make the cut for the Paris Games, is ninth in the list headed by Netherlands (3422), which remained clear of the pack, having won all 12 of its Pro League Season 5 matches thus far.

Gold for Shilpa

D. Shilpa of Medchal clinched the 84kg and above gold with an effort of 205kg (squat 70kg, bench press 40kg and dead lift 95kg) in the Telangana State classic powerlifting championship at Chandanagar GHMC Indoor Hall.

The results:

Women: Veterans, 52 kg: Smruti (Hyd) 242.5kg, 2. Vaishnavi (Hyd) 210kg. 57 kg: Sonia (Hyd) 250kg, 2. S.S. Prasanna Devi (Sanga Reddy) 122.5kg. 66kg: 1. Tarshiya Tarannum (Hyd) 237.5kg, 2. V. Anupama Roy (Hyd) 165kg. 69kg: 1. N. Sowmya (Hyd) 262.5kg, 2. Parvathi Sri Ram (Hyd) 242.5kg. 76kg: 1. S.F.T. Sultana (Hyd) 217.5kg. 84kg: 1. Deepti Bhattacharjee (Hyd) 260kg, 2. K. Bharatee Devi (Sanga Reddy) 172.5kg. 84kg & above: 1. D. Shilpa (Medchal) 205kg, 2. A. Indu (Hyd) 175kg.

Vivaan wins title

Vivaan Sachdev of Delhi Public School (North Bengaluru) won the Brilliant Trophy juniors online chess tournament with 11.5 points from 12 rounds.

Vivaan Sachdev

P. Harshit (11) and S. Sricharan (10) finished second and third respectively.

Final placings: Juniors: 1. Vivaan Sachdev, 2. P. Harshit, 3. S. Sricharan, 4. Arnav Baibhaw, 5. Abhinav Sharma. Boys, u-15: 1. P.S.S. Nanda Gopal, 2. Shaik Laqeet Ishaan. U-13: 1. K. Dinesh Reddy, 2. Avyay Sharma. U-11: 1. V. Srivatsav, 2. P. Sri Sai Vedaansh. U-9: 1. Visisht Sriram, 2. P. Jaswanth. U-7: 1. Yashas N. Banakara, 2. V.A. Rian.

Girls, u-15: 1. Rushitha Haju, 2. Sai Sameeksha. U-13: 1. T. Lasya, 2. I. Manaswi. U-11: 1. Muriel Shanessa Fernandes, 2. Sruti Viswanatha. U-9: 1. Kavya Nirvana.

Shilpa

YMCA (Hyderabad) beats Telangana Youth-A

YMCA (Hyderabad) defeated Telangana YouthA 5751 in the fifth Samuel Vasanth Kumar memorial basketball tournament at YMCA (Secunderabad). Earlier, G9 notched up a 6655 win over YMCA (Hyderabad). The results:

G9 66 (Sravan 20, Sameer 23, Chandrashekar 11) bt YMCA (Hyderabad) 55 (Vishwa 20, Krish 14, Bala 11).

YMCA (Hyderabad) 57 (Vishwa 27, Krish 17) bt Telangana YouthA 51 (Dhruv Boppana 14, Suryansh 14, Aryan Sharma 10).