Former World champ Sidi to oversee GFG trainees in camp
The trainees are back at the Gun For Glory (GFG) shooting range on the Central University campus here, run by Olympic medallist Gagan Narang, under the mentorship of former World champion Peter Sidi.
“This camp presents a valuable opportunity for aspiring marksmen to refine their skills under the expert guidance of highperformance rifle foreign coaches and GFG coaches,” Gagan told The Hindu.
“The goal of holding
Peter Sidi mentoring shooters at the Gun For Glory camp.
camps in various places and specially Hyderabad and Telangana is to bring the best talent from across the world to give exposure and knowledge to local shooters under Sidi” he said. “It is a multi pronged training methodology consisting of sports science, nutrition, strength and conditioning.
“The best part is it ensures sharing of technical know how with foreign coaches besides competition support and strategic planning,” he said even while thanking Sports Authority of Telangana State for allocating the shooting range.
“The rifle squad is of 15 athletes, five of whom have now represented India and clinched medals. M. Uma Mahesh from Andhra Pradesh, Vedant Waghmare from Maharashtra, Melvina Angeline from Tamil Nadu, Naraen Pranav from Karnataka and Swati Chowdhury from West Bengal have contributed significantly with their international experience and achievements.
“This project provides support in the Olympic events like 10m air rifle, 10m air pistol, 25m pistol and 50m rifle. The core objective is to improve the athletes’ performance,” Gagan added.
Saints beats YMCA Hyderabad
Saints recorded a 5849 win over YMCA Hyderabad in its last roundrobin league match of the fifth Samuel Vasanth Kumar memorial basketball tournament at YMCA Secunderabad.
Saints ended the campaign with two wins in three matches while YMCA had a lone win over Telangana YouthA. However, G9 winning all their matches in Level 1 qualified for Level 2, which will have eight teams competing, commencing Saturday.
In a late evening match on Thursday, Telangana YouthB subdued Victory Play Ground (VPG) 5248. The scores:
Abhishek 13, Steven 12) bt YMCA Hyderabad 49 (Krish 13, Vishwa 15).
Thursday’s scores: Telangana Youth-B 52 (Saharsh 13, Reyhan Ellore 18) bt VPG 48 (Shashank 10, Shloak 15).
Shyam wins gold
V. Shyam Kumar of Telangana bagged a gold in the Asian Open powerlifting championship in the 83kg category in
Kyrgyzstan. The 36yearold Shyam came up with efforts of 180kg in squat, 120kg in bench press and 200kg in deadlift.
Nizamabad eases past Hanamkonda
Nizamabad defeated Hanamkonda 100 in the league phase of the eighth Telangana State subjunior interdistrict softball championship at KGBV Ground (Neradigonda) in Adilabad.
The results: Nizamabad bt Hanamkonda 10-0; Mancherial bt Nirmal 2-1; Medak bt Bhupalapally 10-0; Warangal bt Adilabad 7-6; Nalgonda bt Nirmal 5-4; Mahabubnagar bt Karimnagar 10-9; Jagtial bt Sircilla 10-0.