Anjum wins 10m air rifle, 4 Gold for Mehuli
Thiruvananthapuram: Anjum Moudgil of Punjab continued her brilliant run of form by winning the women's 10m air rifle competition while Bengal's Mehuli Ghosh, the other star of the day, claimed four Gold medals at the 62nd National Shooting Championship. Anjum followed up her 50m rifle 3 positions victory a day earlier with another top podium finish. Anjum shot 249.1 in the finals to lead a Punjab 1-2 with Jasmine Kaur coming second with a score of 247.9. Ghosh was the other star of the day winning four Gold, including the junior and youth women's 10m air rifle individual and team event. She shot 253 in the youth final and 249.1 in the junior final respectively to emerge triumphant. Among other notable names, Olympian Apurvi Chandela made it to the air rifle finals but finished fourth to miss out on an individual medal.
Algeria qualify for Cup of Nations
Lome: Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez scored twice as Algeria trounced Togo 4-1 in to qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon. Mauritania, for the first time, Guinea and the Ivory Coast later raised to 13 the number of qualifiers for the biennial tournament. Cameroon, Egypt, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda had booked places before Sunday. That leaves 11 places up for grabs during matchday 6 next March with former champions Congo Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and South Africa among the contenders. Mahrez, the 2016 African Footballer of the Year, netted either side of a Youcef Attal goal to give the Desert Foxes a three-goal advantage within 30 minutes. Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba pulled one back for Togo in the second half before Baghdad Bounedjah completed the scoring in stoppage-time.
Ashmita grabs gold in Dubai Challenge
New Delhi: Nineteen-year-old Shuttler Ashmita Chaliha defeated Jeon Jui of Korea 21-19, 21-15 to win the women singles title in the Dubai International Challenge on Sunday. But Subhankar Dey had to settle for a Silver medal after going down in the final to Vladimir Malkov 10-21, 15-21 in men singles. The Indian-Malaysian pair of Tarun Kona Lim Khim Wah also had to satisfy with a Silver medal in men's double when it went down to Kim Sang Soo and Yoo Yeon Seong 13-21, 16-21 in the final. Ashmita, who has six career wins, took just 33 minutes to dispose of the Korean, who is ranked 29 in the world.
Goveas, Manish crash out in 1st round
Pune: India's Aryan Goveas and Manish Sureshkumar got a taste of Challenger-level tennis and made hasty first-round exits along with two seeded players in the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger here Monday. Local wild card Goveas played well in patches before losing 3-6, 4-6 to Canada's Brayden Schnur in 69 minutes. Third seed and world number 132, Elias Ymer from Sweden, handed wild card entrant Manish a good tennis lesson with an easy 6-4, 6-1 win. In the doubles, local boy Arjun Kadhe and Saketh Myneni, progressed to the quarterfinals with a crushing 6-1 6-1 win over the wild card pair of Dakshineshwar Suresh and Parikshit Somani.
Lobera pens fc goa contract extension
Margao: FC Goa on Monday announced that head coach Sergio Lobera has extended his stay at the Indian Super League club. The Spaniard put pen to paper on a one-year contract extension that will see him stay with the club till the end of the 2019/20 season. Under Lobera, FC Goa reached the semi-finals in 2017/18 and now in his second season, the Gaurs find themselves at the top of the leader board heading into the second international break. With the Head Coach preaching a philosophy of attack, FC Goa scored 43 goals last season and look set to challenge the mark in this season after having already bagged 21 goals in their first 7 games.