India tops in Jr Shooting WC
new delhi: Indian shooters picked up eight more medals, including five Gold, on the concluding day of the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany on Thursday. Their successful campaign saw them finish on top of the medal standings among 61 participating countries, collecting 26 medals in all including 15 Gold, two Silver and nine Bronze medals. India's Gold medals came in the 10m air pistol mixed team, 25m standard pistol men junior individual and team and 25m standard pistol women junior individual and team events respectively. Besides, they also won the Silver medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event, a Bronze in the 25m standard pistol junior men as well as a welcome Bronze medal in the junior women's skeet team event. The highlight of the day for India was their 1-2 finish in the 10m air pistol mixed team event, where the pair of Devanshi Rana and Saurabh Chaudhary piped Manu Bhaker and Anmol Jain in the five team final to clinch Gold. Devanshi and Saurabh shot a total of 478.9 to get the better of Manu and Anmol, who finished with 474.4.
Tiger eyes to end win drought
potomac: Tiger Woods, bolstered by surprising power in his return from back surgery, has tested new putters while hosting the US PGA Quicken loans National in hopes of ending a five-year win drought. The 14-time major winner plays his 11th event of the year, and only planned tuneup for next month's British Open, starting Thursday at TPC Potomac. "I'm pretty excited the way I've hit the golf ball. I've done some things I haven't done in over a decade," Woods said on Wednesday. "No one has had clubhead speeds as what I've had on the tour this year with a lower back fusion. These are things that I didn't know I could do and all of a sudden I'm doing it." What the 42-year-old American hasn't done lately, however, is show the sharp putting that saw him share second at the Valspar Championship and fifth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March.
India, Iran favourites for semis
dubai: Reigning world champions India and runners-up Iran will be favourites to make the final when they take on their respective semifinal opponents in the Kabaddi Masters here on Friday. living up to their heavyweights tag, India topped group A with easy wins over Pakistan and Kenya and they will face Korea, who finished behind toppers Iran in group B in what seems to be a one-sided affair for the world champions. Iran, on the other hand, are likely to face a stiff competition from Pakistan in the first semifinal of the evening at the Al Wasl Sports Complex. This will be a repeat of the Asian Championship semifinal for India when they had beaten Korea 45-29 to avenge their World Cup 2016 league stage loss in Ahmedabad. India have beaten Korea four times from five exchanges and the only loss was in the 2016 World Cup. To make matters worse for Korea, their top raider lee Dong Geon is ruled out with a leg injury that he sustained during training.