She is as practical as they get. And that is the reason Swapna Barman says that while her two-gold effort in the National Games Athletics competition at the IIT Gandhinagar campus gives her happiness, she is not satisfied with her own performance in her favourite event, the Heptathlon. She claimed the High Jump gold with…
Telangana’s B Sai Praneeth upset Kerala’s much fancied and in-form HS Prannoy 18-21, 21-16, 22-20 to help his team annex the Badminton Mixed Team gold in the 36th National Games here on Monday. His victory came on the heels of another brilliant show by the husband-and-wife duo of Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy who got…
Double gold medallist in the 36th National Games’ Rowing events, Khushpreet Kaur took up the sport over a chide for being a girl. “I had gone swimming and I got intrigued by its boats,” she disclosed on Monday, shortly after winning her second gold in the Quadruple Sculls with Vindhya Sankath, Poonam and Rukmini. Earlier,…
Tired of returning with a bloody nose from the ring, or getting a beating from his coach, Arunachal Pradesh’s Sambo Lapung gave up boxing. And took up weightlifting. “Yes, I had first tried boxing only for about a year in 2008. But I gave it up. What’s the point in getting thrashed both in the…
Gulveer Singh’s doughty effort to win the men’s 10,000m with a Games record in the Athletics competition today helped Services consolidate their position at the top of the 36th National Games medal charts. The three-time defending champions spurted to the pole position for the first time on Sunday, thanks to a good show in Rowing…
Olympian Pranati Nayak picked up two gold medals before signing off from the 36th National Games at the Sama Indoor Sports Complex here on Sunday. The West Bengal gymnast collected her first gold in the morning, the Uneven Bars title, and rounded it off by clinching the Floor Exercise crown in the evening. “Yes, it…
Karnataka’s Aneesh S Gowda announced his arrival as the next bright prospect on the senior stage in telling fashion, scripting a fairy-tale victory over seasoned Kerala’s Sajan Prakash in the men’s 200m Freestyle final in the National Games Aquatics competition at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot on Sunday. On a day which saw…
Reigning World under-20 champion Antim Panghal doesn’t like wasting time on the mat. Instead, she relies on her meticulous homework on her opponents a night before the bouts to dominate them. And it was usual business for the 18-year-old from Hisar, who walked away with the gold by defeating Madhya Pradesh’s Priyanshi Prajapati by fall…
Top seeds Telangana had to dig their heels in to edge out Maharashtra 3-2 in the semifinals of the Badminton Mixed Team Championship in the 36th National Games here at the PDDU Stadium on Sunday. They will now face the HS Prannoy-led Kerala team, which got the better of hosts Gujarat 3-1, in the summit…
You can easily empathise with Siddharth Pardeshi when he wishes for greater all-round attention to the sport that he so loves, Diving. A couple of years ago, he was in the news as one of the athletes who were stuck overseas during the Covid-19 induced Lockdown. He was in the FINA Development Centre in Kazan,…
Astha Choudhury (Assam) claimed the honour of becoming the first swimmer to break a record as the National Games Aquatics competition commenced at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex here on Sunday. She clocked 1:03.91 in the 100m Butterfly heats to take the Games record from Richa Mishra, who set it at 1:04.41 in Ranchi in…
36वें राष्ट्रीय खेल लॉन्ग जम्पर जेसविन एल्ड्रिन ने अपनी स्वर्ण पदक जीतने वाली 8.26 मीटर छलांग के साथ 2023 विश्व चैंपियनशिप के लिए क्वालीफाई किया। हंगरी में होने वाली विश्व चैंपियनशिप के लिए योग्यता मानक 8.22 मीटर है। कबड्डी उत्तर प्रदेश और महाराष्ट्र ने फाइनल में एक एक अंक के लिये संद्यर्ष किया और आखिरकार, यूपी…
‘I don’t put limits on myself. I just work hard and wherever God takes me, I go,’ says Amlan Amlan Borgohain has a simple philosophy when it comes to running. Don’t think too much about conditions or anything. Just run fast. The 23-year-old from Assam did just that to stop the clock at 10.38s at…
India’s best swimmers will go all out to make waves at the Sardar Patel Swimming Complex when the National Games Aquatics competition gets underway here on Sunday. Olympians Sajan Prakash (Kerala) and Srihari Natraj (Karnataka) among men and Maana Patel (Gujarat) among women are expected to claim top honours. Sajan Prakash emerged the Best Male…
Badminton star HS Prannoy showed he means business as he marked his return to court after a month’s break with a 21-11, 21-9 demolition of Orijit Chaliha to star in Kerala’s 3-1 victory over Assam in the National Games Mixed Team quarterfinals here on Saturday. “It is a nice feeling to be back on court….
Uttar Pradesh’s Abhishek Pal and Parul Chaudhary completed a unique double at the National Games here on Saturday, winning the Men’s and Women’s 5,000m gold for their state. Parul Chaudhary was delighted with her performance but Abhishek Pal was a slightly disappointed man even though he beat the stiff challenge of Services’ Karit Kumar and…
The women’s 49kg weightlifting competition unfolded on expected lines in the 36th National Games, with a tactical battle between Mirabai Chanu and Sanjita Chanu at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Friday. In the end, Mirabai walked away with the gold with a total lift of 191 kgs (Snatch 84kg, Clean & Jerk 107 kgs)…
Gujarat’s ace shooter Elavenil Valarivan gave the hosts their fourth gold even as several favourites, including Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, pathbreaking fencer Bhavani Devi and wrestler Divya Kakaran, lived up to their top billing and pocketed gold medals in their respective events in the 36th National Games here on Friday. The athletics arena…
Tamil Nadu & Karnataka are top two seeds in men team while Ankita Raina led Gujarat & Maharashtra are top two in women team. 2022 National Games Men Team The tennis action at the national games is all set to start from tomorrow. We will have the team events tomorrow. In the men section…
Deepika and Vanshika star at the Youth National Championships 2022 in Bhopal Haryana’s rising Javelin Thrower Deepika and Pole Vaulter Vanshika Ghanghas broke National U18 girls records on their way to victory on the concluding day of the 17th AFI National Youth Athletics Championships at the Tatya Tope Stadium here on Monday. Deepika, who is…
Top-seeded pair exits and six others follow suit in mixed doubles In the mixed doubles event that set the ball rolling on the third day of the 36th National Games competition at the Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Indoor Stadium here today, only three seeded pairs survived to enter the quarterfinals. In the women’s doubles, however, Sreeja Akula…
The experienced team from West Bengal defeated defending Champions Maharashtra in Women Team National Games This was always on cards when two top team from India were in the final to fight for the Gold Medal. While West Bengal showed great skills and game plan on their way to the final, Maharashtra team did just…
महिला क्रिकेट महिला वनडे सीरीज भारत ने दूसरे एकदिवसीय मैच में इंग्लैंड को 88 रनों से हराकर कैंटरबरी में इंग्लैंड में महिला वनडे श्रृंखला में एक प्रसिद्ध जीत दर्ज की। भारतीय कप्तान हरमनप्रीत कौर ने 143 रनों के साथ पहली पारी में 333-5 का विशाल स्कोर खड़ा किया। 23 साल बाद इंग्लैंड में भारत की पहली…
Karman Kaur Thandi upsets eighth seed Paquet on opening day of WTA Chennai open 2022 India’s Karman Kaur Thandi scored the big upset on the opening day of the WTA Chennai Open with a three-set win over eighth seed Chloe Paquet, of France at the SDAT Tennis Stadium on Monday evening. The 24-year-old wild…
We got a chance to speak to CWG Silver Medalist Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevid. Here’s what he had to say about his preparation, the WCH and training. ISH: This season has been a successful season till now. Could you brief us on what changes did you bring in? Abdulla: Till last year I was practicing at…
Day 1 Qualifying Rounds. Chennai open Qualifying Chamarthi vs Hibino (6-1, 6-0) The day started with a 27-year-old local lad taking on no2 seed Japanese. The game started off really well with the first three games taking 30 minutes to complete. The 199th-ranked Japanese with her experience broke down Chamari’s serve and from there on…
Indian Challenge at World Wrestling Championships, Belgrade 2022. Written by | Sanjay Verma India came back with only 2 medals from last world championships at Oslo, Norway in the absence of stars like Bajrang Punia and Ravi Dahiya. This year they would certainly like to improve on their best ever tally of 5 medals which…
Hrithik Marne was crowned National champion after Seven Years, we got a chance to speak with him. Here’s what he had to say. ISH:Could you explain how you got into sports climbing? I started climbing from 2011 but Initially I started with Kabaddi. One day I saw a sports climbing wall being built nearby and…
The long awaited Tennis action is to begin at the SDAT Tennis Stadium from 12th of September 2022 when the main draw matches of the Chennai Open WTA250 International Women’s Tennis Championships will begin. Now there is a good news for the tennis loving fans in Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu, particularly for…
Written By : Raghava Ravuri Denim Yadav is a promising talent who made headlines by winning the U18 international singles title of the ITF(International Tennis Federation) in the month March. With a current ITF ranking of 221 and a career high of 123 he is rated as one of the top 5 players in India…
We got a chance to speak to young and promising Abhay Shinde. Here is what he had to say ISH: How did you take up fencing? Abhay: I am form a sporting family with my father being a Physical Education teacher. My father wanted me to join Volleyball in the beginning but my fathers close…
India has entered 6 swimmers to this prestigious World Junior Meet. Swimming Junior Worlds Aneesh Gowda(3:57.99) won his heat with his personal best time while Aryan Nehra(3:59.36) came in at the sixth position in his heat of 400m Freestyle they finished 11th and 13th respectively in the overall standings out of the 44 swimmers taking part….
Chirag Khandal became the youngest to qualify for Asian Games in Equestrian which has now been postponed to 2023. We got a chance to speak to him and here are his thoughts. Eventing is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage,…
Hello and Welcome to our coverage of the world championships. With no Sindhu yes its a little dampener from Indian perspective in Women Singles but its game on in the Men Singles and Men Doubles Live Streaming Link India started off with a flying start with Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy defeating their opponents from Maldives…
Antim Panghal 53Kg bags Gold while Sonam 62Kg, Priyanka 65Kg & Priya 76Kg earned Silver Medal Written By : Raghava Ravuri The historical Gold that Antim won made her the first ever Indian Women Junior World Champion. The pre-tournament star from India Sonam Malik lived upto her reputation only to lose to the mighty Japanese…
टेनिस भारतीय $25,000 आईटीएफ महिला टेनिस टूर्नामेंट, एल्डरशॉट, ब्रिटेन पांचवीं वरीयता प्राप्त अंकिता रैना ने टूर्नामेंट के सेमीफाइनल में जापान की हारुका काजी पर 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-0 से यादगार जीत दर्ज की। फाइनल में अंकिता का सामना चीनी ताइपे की आठवीं वरीयता प्राप्त जोआना गारलैंड से होगा। $159,360 चैलेंजर टेनिस टूर्नामेंट, वैंकूवर युकी भांबरी और…
First ever international meet for these Pole Vaulters. Busan Pole Vault Meet Three Indians took part in the Pole Vault meet with the likes of Sakthi Mahendran in the U20, Siva the National Record holder with 5.30m and Baranica taking part in the seniors. This is also the first foreign meet for all the…
Bharath Periera won his ninth sucessive National medal IMF National Sport Climbing Championship, 2022 Sports Climbing had recently been included at the Tokyo Olympics. At Tokyo only single medal were awarded both in the men and women sections combining the total scores of speed, lead and bouldering. Competition climbing is a form of sport climbing that…
Writer : Manav Chowdhury FIFA has finally banned the AIFF (All India Football Federation),the fear which was going on for months inside the mind of every Indian football fan has come true. FIFA has banned AIFF with immediate effect due to undue influence from third parties,which constitutes a serious violation of the FIFA statutes Effects…
Who will reach the 90 barrier first? Neeraj Chopra or Mirabai Chanu Albeit in different sports the 90 mark is the most elusive one for both the stars of India and the most awaited one for now. Mirabai Chanu and Neeraj Chopra have started started the season on a positive note winning gold in CWG…
How has India progressed in CWG without its pep event Shooting and the way going forward? India finished the CWG with 22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze which fewer than the 2018 CWG but without Shooting India has performed well and finished 4th behind Canada and pipped NZ on the final day. So…
सुधीर ने पैरा पावरलिफ्टिंग के पुरुषों के हैवीवेट फाइनल में स्वर्ण पदक जीता और भारत के लिए स्वर्ण पदक के साथ दिन का अंत हुआ। उनसे पहले, मुरली श्रीशंकर ने पुरुषों की लंबी कूद में 8.08 मीटर की सर्वश्रेष्ठ छलांग के साथ भारत के लिए ऐतिहासिक रजत पदक जीता। श्रीशंकर की उपलब्धि इसलिये भी बडी…
टेनिस विश्व जूनियर अंडर -14 टेनिस फाइनल, प्रोस्टेजोव, चेक गणराज्य भारतीय टीम लड़कियों को पोजिशनल मैच में अर्जेंटीना ने 2-1 से हराया। भारत इससे पहले अपने आखिरी लीग मैच में मिस्र से 1-2 से हार गया था और ग्रुप सी में चौथे स्थान पर रहा था। 100,000 रुपये एआईटीए महिला टेनिस टूर्नामेंट, जॉयगांव अकादमी पावनी…
हॉकी राष्ट्रमंडल भारत ने पुरुषों की हॉकी में कनाडा को 8-0 से हराकर ग्रुप बी में शीर्ष स्थान हासिल किया। बॉक्सिंग मेन्स ओवर 54 किग्रा- 57 किग्रा (फेदरवेट) क्वार्टरफाइनल: हुसामुद्दीन ने 3-2 से जीत के साथ पदक की पुष्टि की भारतीय महिला हॉकी टीम ने कनाडा को 3-2 से हराकर सेमीफाइनल में प्रवेश किया। जूडो…
एथलेटिक्स विश्व एथलेटिक्स अंडर-20 चैंपियनशिप, कैली, कोलंबिया बड़थ श्रीधर, प्रिया एच. मोहन, कपिल और रूपल चौधरी की भारतीय चौकड़ी ने एशियाई जूनियर रिकॉर्ड तोड़ा और विश्व एथलेटिक्स अंडर -20 चैंपियनशिप में 4×400 मीटर मिश्रित रिले फाइनल में प्रवेश किया। भारत ने 3:19.62 सेकेंड का प्रभावशाली प्रदर्शन किया – विश्व एथलेटिक्स की ऑल-टाइम आउटडोर अंडर -20…
कॉमनवेल्थ गेम्स 2022 बर्मिंघम भारत ने जोड़े चार मेडल सबसे पहले, महिला लॉन बॉल्स टीम ने ‘फोर्स’ फाइनल जीतकर खेल में देश का पहला पदक जीता। फिर, पुरुषों की टेबल टेनिस टीम ने फाइनल में सिंगापुर को हराकर भारत का पांचवां स्वर्ण पदक जीता। क्षण भर बाद, विकास ठाकुर ने पुरुषों के 96 किलोग्राम भारोत्तोलन…
शतरंज शतरंज ओलंपियाड राउंड 4: सोमवार को कुछ प्रमुख टीमों के साथ कुछ करीबी मुकाबले हुए, जिसमें शीर्ष चार मैचों में से तीन में 2-2 का मुकबला रहा। आश्चर्यजनक रूप से, इज़राइल ने मुकाबले के प्रबल दावेदार नीदरलैंड को 2.5-1.5 से हराया। प्रत्येक वर्ग में उच्च रैंकिंग वाले देशों से हार के बावजूद, भारतीय टीमों…
लॉन बाउल्स भारतीय लॉन बाउल्स महिला चौके टीम ने फाइनल के लिए क्वालीफाइंग करते हुये इतिहास रच दिया। रूपा रानी तिर्की, लवली चौबे, पिंकी और नयनमोनी सैकिया की भारतीय टीम ने 15 राउंड के बाद न्यूजीलैंड को 16-13 से हराया। फाइनल में भारत का सामना दक्षिण अफ्रीका से होगा। स्क्वाश राष्ट्रमंडल सौरव घोषाल ने स्कॉटलैंड…
Hello and welcome to our coverage of the World Junior Athletics Championships being held in Cali. Of the 45 being called for the camp, 33 were selected initially and now 31 seems to be the final count after two withdrawals for Covid+ If you are looking for the Indian schedule and yet not read our…
Here we bring you the schedule of the Indian events at the World Junior Athletics Championships being held in Colombia Day1 | 1 August Men 1500m | Arjun Waskale | Heat 1 | 8:15pm Women 800m | Asha Kiran | Heat 1 | 9:30pm Women 800m | laxita Sandilea | Heat 4 | 9:54pm Men…
