India end campaign with solitary silver
Kolkata: A lacklustre India ended their campaign with a solitary silver medal in the mixed recurve pair event of the third and final stage of the Archery World Cup at the Konyaalti Beach Park here on Sunday. In the morning session, Indian women's recurve team of Deepika, laxmirani Majhi and Bombayla Devi laishram failed to open their account, losing the bronze medal clash to Italy 1-5. later in the evening session, 24-year-old Das, in his bid to win a first individual World Cup medal, led 4-0 before losing to Woojin Kim 6-5 in a thrilling shoot-off. Indian women's compound team had lost the bronze medal play-off on Saturday and it finished with a solitary medal from the last stage of a forgettable World Cup as the men's recurve team had missed the final chance to make the Olympics in the qualification event held on June 16.
Sumit enters last-16 of AIBA Oly Qualifiers
Baku (Azerbaijan): Indian boxer Sumit Sangwan (81kg) on Sunday advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the AIBA World Olympic Qualification tournament after notching up a hard-fought win over eighth seed Juan Carlos Carrillo of Colombia here. The 23-year-old triumphed 2-1 in round of 32 contest against the world No.16, who is a former Youth Olympics silver-medallist. "Sumit boxed very intelligently. He tried to keep his opponent at long range and struck some brilliant straight punches to his body and face. As I saw it, he dominated in all the three rounds," national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu told PTI. Sumit, who is hitting his strides after recovering from a string of injuries last year, will face Mongolia's Erdenebayar Sandagsuren in the pre-quarters on Tuesday. However, it was heartbreak for Satish kumar (+91kg), who had to bow out owing to a cut above his eye during his pre-quarterfinal bout against Ireland's Dean Gardiner. Satish sustained the cut in the first round itself and the bout had to be stopped in the second round owing to the seriousness of his injury.
Sl suffers blow as Eranga hospitalised
Colombo: Fast bowler Shaminda Eranga has been hospitalised in England with a heart ailment, Sri lanka Cricket sources said here on Sunday. Eranga's hospitalisation takes place just two days ahead of the first ODI in Nottingham. His absence will be a blow to Sri lanka who missed the services of Dhammika Prasad and Dushmantha Chameera during the Test series. Eranga had been called for a suspect action during the second Test at Chester le street. He was to face a bowling test at the loughborough University on Monday. There was a danger of him being asked to be sidelined in the event of him proving to bend his arm more than the allowed 15 degrees, SlC sources said.
Fix Indian boxing mess: Bindra to AIBA
Baku: Olympic champion shooter Abhinav Bindra on Sunday appealed to AIBA to help clean up the administrative mess in Indian boxing and pave the way for the country's pugilists to participate at the Rio Olympics under the national flag. Ever willing to boost the confidence of fellow athletes, Bindra visited the Indian boxing squad competing at the AIBA World Olympic Qualification tournament here and interacted with them individually. Following the visit, Bindra wrote on his twitter handle, "Went to cheer for our boxers at their Olympic qualifying comp in Baku. They are all champions! "Appeal to the powers that be to fix matters with federation immediately so that these champions get what they so truly deserve."