Here are all the foremost developments in Indian sport on December 10.
ATHLETICS
Belihu to vie for prime honours in 25K Kolkata run
Two-time Delhi Half Marathon winner Andamlak Belihu of Ethiopia would be the star attraction within the seventh version of the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K on December 18.
Belihu, who gained the Delhi Half Marathon in 2018 and 2019 and completed runner-up in 2020 with a timing of 58 minutes and 54 seconds, is contemporary from reaching his private greatest timing of two:06.40s on the Berlin Marathon.
He managed to maintain up with two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge however fell quick in opposition to the Kenyan, who smashed his personal world document to win the Berlin race with 2:01:09s.
Other worldwide elite males runners embody Djibouti’s nationwide half marathon recorder holder Ibrahim Hassan, Turkey’s a number of European cross nation champion Aras Kaya and Eritrea’s Berhane Tesfay, who completed third at this yr’s Munich Marathonwith a powerful timing of two:08:10s.
The ladies’s elite line-up embody 2022 Tokyo Marathon runner-up Ashete Bekere of Ethiopia and the 2019 TSK 25K runner-up Desi Jisa of Bahrain.
The elite males’s and girls’s winners will take residence USD 7,500 every. The runner-ups will get richer by an Event Record bonus of USD 3,000.
-PTI
SAILING
Indian sailor Anandi wins gold medal at King’s Cup Regatta
Indian sailor Anandi Nandan Chandavarkar claimed the gold medal on the thirty fourth King’s Cup Regatta within the Overall Open Skiff class.
Hailing from Mumbai, the 13-year-old has been crusing within the Open Skiff class for the previous three years. Recently, she participated within the French Open Skiff National occasion and completed fifth within the U-15 class. Anandi additionally participated on this yr’s Japanese Open Skiff Nationals 2022.
“Sailing is my passion and the King’s Cup Regatta is on the bucket-list of every sailor. I feel proud that I won the gold for India and hope it will inspire other teenagers to discover their dreams with passion,” Anandi mentioned in a launch.
Three contributors represented India on the Kings Cup in Phuket.
While Anandi bagged the gold, Luv Sakpal was ranked fifth total, and Armaan Malhotra was ranked twelfth.
Anandi has skilled beneath coach Dipesh Nerpagare and was mentored by Amish Ved.
-PTI
BASKETBALL
TN males, Kerala ladies preserve successful
Tamil Nadu males defeated Telangana 96-48 for his or her second win within the National junior championship’s South Zone qualifiers on the V.Okay. Menon indoor stadium right here on Saturday.
Kerala’s Devika Sunil trying a basket in opposition to Telangana within the South Zone junior basketball championship at Kozhikode on Saturday.
| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Meanwhile within the ladies’s part, host Kerala breezed previous Telangana 83-27.
The outcomes (league):
Men: Karnataka 84 (S. Sanketh 30, N.M. Vishnu 14, Amarthya 12) bt Puducherry 71 (Devanand 21, Logesh 17); Karnataka 66 (Sanketh 21, Nihal 11) bt Andhra Pradesh 55 (Sathya Prakash 17, Guru Charan 13); Tamil Nadu 96 (Swarna Kumar 16) bt Telangana 48 (Subunel 10). Tamil Nadu 81 (V. Saran 20, Prahalathan 15) bt Karnataka 70 (Nihal 25 ,Shasank Gowda 12).
Women: Karnataka 74 (Niharika Reddy 21, Meghla Gowda 19) bt Puducherry 42 (Vaishnavi 21);
Kerala 83 (Irine Elsa John 16, Ashlin Shiju 15, Eldina Ann Joseph 11) bt Telangana 27; Tamil Nadu 104 (Sathya 30, Nittika 15, Sadana Veronica 14) bt Telangana 39 (Sahasra 10).
-Stan Rayan
HOCKEY
Beighton Cup from immediately
Altogether 12 groups will compete within the 124th Beighton Cup hockey match beginning on the SAI astro-turf floor on Sunday.
Indian Oil, Punjab National Bank, Railway Sports Promotion Board, Central Secretariat and Cultural Sports Promotion Board (CSCSPB), Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Odisha XI, Punjab and Sind Bank, Indian Navy, Canara Bank, Naval Tata Hockey Academy, Eastern Railway and BNR Club will take part within the match.
CSCSPB will tackle Naval Tata Academy within the opening match.
-Y.B. Sarangi
Nehru ladies’s hockey match
A objective every from Karishma Yadav and Gagandeep Kaur paved the way in which for a 2-1 victory for Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) over Pritam Siwach Academy within the remaining of the Nehru ladies’s hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium on Saturday.
Tamanna Yadav equalised for Pritam Academy within the forty first minute, however the constant Gagandeep sealed it for the Railway staff with a penalty nook conversion within the fourth quarter.
The champion staff was offered Rs.100,000 and the runner-up, Rs.50,000.
Karishma was declared the ‘best player of the match’ award and a hockey package.
Bharti Saroha of the Sonipat staff was adjudged the ‘best player of the tournament’, and offered Rs.25,000.
The CRPF staff bagged the Fair Play trophy.
The Sports Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Yashodhara Raje Scindia offered the prizes.
The end result (remaining): Railway Sports Promotion Board (Karishma Yadav, Gagandeep Kaur) bt Pritam Siwach Academy, Sonipat (Tamanna Yadav) 2-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
