JAYARAM REACHES QUARTERFINAl OF KOREA OPEN
Seoul: Ajay Jayaram emerged as the lone survivor at the Korea Open after nothing up a convincing straight-game win over China's Huang Yuxiang to advance to the quarterfinals of men's singles of the Super Series event here on Thursday. World No 27 Indian, seeded ninth, defeated Huang 21-15, 21-18 in a 40-minute battle. He had beaten him at the Canada Open last year. B Sai Praneeth however suffered a 9-21, 15-21 loss to sixth seed Korean Son Wan Ho in a 34-minute match.
GOEl HOlDS RIO REVIEW MEETING WITH NSFS
New Delhi: Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Thursday held a meeting with National Sports Federations to discuss India's performance at the Rio Olympics and to chalk out a roadmap for the future. The meeting was a part of the ongoing review of India's at Rio last month. Addressing the meeting, the minister called for learning the right lessons from Rio with a view to improving performance in future Olympic Games. He said that all the stakeholders, including the government and NSFs will have to work together to achieve the desired level of excellence in sports, a release said.
JAVElIN THROWER ANNU SETS NEW NATIONAl RECORD
lucknow: Javelin thrower Annu Rani smashed her own national record and in the process became the first Indian woman to cross the 60m mark on the third and penultimate day of the 56th Open National Athletics Championships here on Thursday. Annu threw the javelin to a distance of 60.01m to erase her own earlier national mark of 59.87m which she made in July during the National Inter-State Championships in Hyderabad. In men's jump, for the first time in Indian athletics history, all the top three finishers cleared 2.20m. Tejaswin Shankar of Delhi went on to win the gold with an effort of 2.22m while Chetan of Services and Sreenith Mohan of Kerala bagged the silver and bronze respectively by clearing 2.20m.
BANGlADESH BOYS lIFT SUBROTO U-14 TROPHY
New Delhi: Bangladesh KridaSikshaProtisthan defeated Government Model School from Chandigarh 4-2, via penalty shootout, to lift the 57th Subroto Cup International Football Tournament trophy at the Dr Ambedkar Stadium here on Thursday. With the regulation time ending goalless, 15 minutes of extra time was given to the teams to break the deadlock. But both squads were determined to take the issue to shootout, leaving it entirely on the goalkeepers to decide.