Jeev Milkha Singh set for Senior Open debut

Golf

Jeev warms up for Senior Open up with third place finish in Germany

India'southward Jeev Milkha Singh, playing his starting time year on the Legends Bout (for over 50), secured his showtime meridian-three result at the Winstongolf Senior Open up here.

Jeev, who will feature in his start Senior Open next calendar week at Gleneagles, finished the terminal round with a superb 5-under 67 for a full of vi-under 210. His first 2 rounds were 70-73 at the 54-hole tournament.

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Jeev, who started the week with a terrible run of a bogey and a double bogey in his starting time 9, improved thereafter with five birdies on his second nine which was the front end side of the Winstongolf Championship course.

He carded 70 on get-go day and and then added 73 on the second day, when his card included a double bogey.

On the terminal day, he played 7 pars for a start and so birdied eighth and ninth. On the back nine, he birdied 14th and 15th but dropped a shot on 16th and the airtight baboon-birdie for 67.

"I have been playing well. I was a chip underweather the previous calendar week when I finished T-56 (in Switzerland) but my game had started turning after the first two rounds. I shot 69 in the terminal round," said Jeev.

"Today I was quite close to getting into a play-off, where Richard Green vanquish Philip Archer.

"The is my best outcome and best performance since condign a Senior rookie golfer later turning 50 at the end of last year. I am very proud of my performance this calendar week." Jeev said he has been putting well and recently got a tip from an old friend, Michael Campbell from New Zealand.

"He told me a couple of things and it helped. He is a one-time United states of america Open champion." This week'south tied-third finish operation earned Jeev €21,000 and carried him up to 35th place in the 2022 Legends Tour Society of Merit. He was 84th at the start of the week, and so it was an upward movement of 49 places.

- PTI

Vani Kapoor finishes career-best tied 3rd in Netherlands

Indian golfer Vani Kapoor recorded a career-all-time result on the Ladies European Tour, finishing tied third in the 2022 Big Light-green Egg Open here.

Kapoor, whose lone Top-ten finish was a tied-sixth spot at the Hero Women'due south Indian Open in 2017, lost her class and status on the LET, only has worked hard to get back into the tour.

Kapoor, who shot 69-70-71 in the kickoff three rounds, added 73 in the final circular to full five-nether, just two shots shy of Anna Nordqvist, a three-time Major winner.

Diksha Dagar, who was also in the running after the first two rounds, dropped to T-17 with a final circular of 77, that included four bogeys between sixth and twelfth and then a double on Par-5 17th.

Amandeep Drall (76) finished T-48 while Ridhima Dilawari (74) was T-57.

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Kapoor had a bogey on the 2d, before she earned a shot dorsum with a birdie on the eighth. Another dropped shot on the 14th saw her fall a shot back backside the leading pair once more.

She eventually recorded the all-time finish of her career, just as it was for Witt, who shot five-under for the week

- PTI

Pond

Dhinidhi adds to Karnataka'southward aureate blitz

Karnataka's Dhinidhi Desinghu clocked 1:04.01 seconds to create a new national record in the 100m butterfly for group II girls in 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships here on Monday.

It was a closely-fought race as the youngster from Bengaluru narrowly beat state-mate Hashika Ramachandra, who incidentally held the previous national record created last twelvemonth.

Hashika too swam within the previous record fourth dimension of i:05.51 seconds by clocking one:04.x seconds. Assam's Subhranshini Priyadarshini took dwelling house the bronze medal with a fourth dimension of 1:07.02 at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool within Kalinga Stadium.

Haryana'due south Krish Jain swam a sensational sprint in the 50m backstroke issue for group 2 boys to sink his own national record of 28.31 seconds created in the heats. He clocked 28.06 to win the gold and trounce Telangana's Suhas Preetham M (28.51) and Karnataka's Ishaan Mehra (28.ninety).

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Maharashtra's Apeksha Fernandes, on the other manus, continued to accept an impressive outing in the prestigious upshot as she created yet some other national record en route to a gold medal in the 100m butterfly for group I girls.

She clocked 1:01.94 seconds to better the previous record of 1:02.71 held by Astha Choudhary. Finishing second in this race was Bengal's Nilabjaa Gosh who clocked ane:03.68 secs and the 3rd place went to Karnataka'southward Nina Venkatesh who timed i:03.93.

Adding to Maharashtra'due south medal tally was Vedaant Madhavan, who won his second gold medal at the Championships. He won the 100m freestyle for group I boys with a time of 52.12 secs to beat Karnataka'southward Karthikeyan Nair (53.39) and Tamil Nadu's Jashua Thomas (53.58).

For Karnataka, Ridhima Veerendra Kumar added some other gold medal in the 50m backstroke for group I girls. She clocked thirty.25 seconds while her state-mate R Navaneeth Gowda won the gold in 400m medley for group II boys.

-PTI

WEIGHTLIFTING

Golden medals for Akanksha, Harshada

Globe inferior champion Harshada Garud and Akanksha Vyavhare won gold medals in the Asian youth and junior weightlifting championships in Tashkent on Mon.

Harshada recorded 69kg in snatch and 88kg in clean and jerk to aggregate 157kg and win the junior women's 45kg championship. She lifted four kg more than than her Worlds showing.

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Akanksha, a Earth youth silverish medallist, lifted 55kg in snatch and 70kg in make clean and wiggle to total 125kg and become the gold medal in the youth girls' 40kg category. She bettered her own make clean and jerk National marking by 1 kg even though her aggregate was two kg less than her Worlds performance.

Soumya Dalvi (63kg, 82kg, 145kg), a World youth bronze medallist, got the statuary medal in the youth girls' 45kg category. She had lifted 148kg in the World youth championships.

S. Gurunaidu, the World youth champion in 55kg, performed below his all-time (104kg, 123kg, 227kg) to terminate quaternary in the youth boys' competition and seventh in the junior men's section. He had totalled 230kg in the World youth event.

-Y. B. Sarangi

WRESTLING

Zouhaier Sghaier Ranking Serial: Sujeet wins India's lone men's freestyle gold medal on final day

Sujeet fetched India'south alone men's freestyle golden medal on the last day of the Zouhaier Sghaier Ranking Series wrestling tournament in Tunis, Tunisia on Sunday.

Sujeet, who had claimed gold medals in Asian under-23 and Asian under-20 championships, secured his 3rd successive title as he defeated 2021 Asian silver medallist and Matteo Pellicone golden medallist Adian Askarov of Kazakhstan 14-4, 2021 Poland Open up champion John Diakomihalis of United states 8-ii and Argentine Olympian Agustin Destribats 15-4 in the 65kg weight class.

Udit (57kg) lost to Globe champion and Tokyo Olympics statuary medallist Thomas Gilman of the USA nine-eight in the final to take the silver.

Aman Sehrawat (61kg), Sagar Jaglan (74kg) and Viky Chahar (92kg) as well performed well to bag silvery medals. Karan Mor (70kg) and Gourav Baliyan (79kg) pocketed statuary medals.

-Y. B. Sarangi

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