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67th National Shooting Championship: Mane pips Srikanth in close fight to bag air rifle gold

Shahu Tushar Mane beat Dhanush Srikanth by 0.1 point to clinch the men’s air rifle gold in a spectacular climax in the 67th National Shooting Championship at the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Monday. Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Divyaraj Singh took the next two spots in the final with 122, while Olympians Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad Vir Singh …

World champion Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79sec to claim gold in a dramatic men’s Olympic 100m final in Paris on Sunday. Defending champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy was fifth in 9.85sec, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo sixth in 9.86sec, American Kenny Bednarek seventh in 9.88sec and Jamaican Oblique Seville eighth in 9.91sec in an astonishing race. RELATED | Paris 2024 …

Mollie O'Callaghan has claimed the gold medal in front of Australian champion Ariarne Titmus in an electric 200m women's freestyle at the Paris Olympics. Here's every event scheduled for day four: Olympics schedule day four: Jess Fox returns for more gold Mollie O'Callaghan, Ariarne Titmus bonded by magic moment in Paris A By Andrew McGarry As we begin to wrap …

Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi outperformed compatriot Arjun Erigaisi by 0.5 points to win the ninth Vugar Gashimov Memorial Chess Tournament 2023 at the Gabala Garden Hotel in Azerbaijan on Monday. Vidit drew seven, lost one and won two matches in rapid time controls to finish second behind Azerbaijan’s Aydin Suleymanli with 11 points in 9 rounds. Champion!🔥😎 Thrilled to make …

Japan Open: Asian Games champion Jonatan Christie pips India's Lakshya Sen to secure final berth

Indonesia's Jonatan Christie pipped India's young badminton sensation Lakshya Sen in a three-set-long thrilling semifinal in the ongoing Japan Open Super 750 tournament on Saturday, July 29. The game turned out to be an engaging tug of war between the Asian Games champion Christie and the reigning Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya and went right down to the wire with the …

Sergio Perez topped the times for Red Bull ahead of Fernando Alonso, debuting for Aston Martin, as the defending champion team set the pace in Friday’s opening practice session at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Alonso confirmed his promising pace from testing with a lap in 1:33.196 to split the two Red Bulls and push two-time defending world champion Max …

Two-time Formula E World Champion Jean-Eric Vergne, racing for DS PENSKE, produced an exhilarating finish to win the maiden Hyderabad E-Prix and return to winning ways in front of a sell-out crowd on Saturday. On a dusty street circuit navigating along the banks of the iconic Hussain Sagar Lake, the Frenchman brought all his experience into play and deployed a …

Forward Tom Craig and drag-flicker Jeremy Hayward’s hat-tricks underlined World No. Earlier, 2016 champion Argentina, posted a hard-earned 1-0 win over a fighting South Africa in the inaugural match of the 15th edition. Tribute to Glencross Wearing black armbands in tribute to Australian great Brian Glencross, who passed away last month, the Kookaburras’ beautiful team work, featuring smart inter-play, resulted …

Charles Leclerc continued where he left off in Bahrain by posting the fastest time in first practice for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc posted the fasted time in practice for the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix World Champion Max Verstappen finished second behind the Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz was third in second practice with a time of 1:30.320. …

This was Bagnaia’s debut success in the premier category after 10 wins combined in Moto2 and Moto3. Aragon, France: Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia got the measure of six-time world champion Marc Marquez in a gripping duel to win the Aragon MotoGP from pole on Sunday. After nailing pole position with a track record time on Saturday, Bagnaia led from the start …

Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton won the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday after an epic, knife-edge battle with Red Bull's Max Verstappen over the final laps. READ | "Wow, what a difficult race that was," said Hamilton, who started second on the grid and took another of Michael Schumacher's all-time records with his 5,112nd race …