Indian sports news wrap, December 3: Abhinav Choudhary wins rapid fire pistol gold at National Championships

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Published 04.12.2023
Indian sports news wrap, December 3: Abhinav Choudhary wins rapid fire pistol gold at National Championships

Here are all the main updates, outcomes and developments from the world of Indian sports activities on Sunday, December 3.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Chandrika, Gyaneshwari win titles

Chandrika Tarafdar received the 45kg title and Gyaneshwari Yadav claimed the 49kg crown within the Asmita Khelo India girls’s weightlifting championships in Kolkata on Sunday.

Chandrika totalled 159kg, whereas Gyaneshwari aggregated 172kg.

THE RESULTS

45kg: 1. Chandrika Tarafdar (WB) snatch 68kg, clear and jerk 91kg, complete 159kg; 2. Rekha Moni Gogoi (Asm) 53kg, 67kg, 120kg; 3. Sandiya Gungli (Aru) 48kg, 68kg, 116kg.

49kg: 1. Gyaneshwari Yadav (Cht) 79kg, 93kg, 172kg; 2. Jhilli Dalabehera (Odi) 74kg, 90kg, 164kg; 3. Sanju Devi (Man) 70kg, 87kg, 157kg.

-Y.B. Sarangi

BASKETBALL

Tamil Nadu beats Chhattisgarh at National championships

Tamil Nadu beat Chhattisgarh 77-70 in a group-B league match of the ladies’s part within the 73rd National basketball championship on the Guru Nanak Dev Stadium in Ludhiana on Sunday.

The championship was inaugurated by the Minister of Sports and Youth Services of Punjab, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer.

THE RESULTS (LEAGUE)
Men: Group-A

Punjab 99 (Kanwar Gurbaj Singh 15, Mandeep Singh 3, Manjot Singh 13, Amritpal Singh 11) bt Telangana 38 (Billa Mathew Abraham 10).

Rajasthan 78 (Ashish Trivedi 26, Mahaveer 17, Piyush Meena 17, Lokendra Singh 10) bt Madhya Pradesh 75 (Rajesh Tiwari 20).

Men: Group-B

Railways 115 (Amarendra Naik 32, Sahil Kalyan 20, Jevannatesh 17, Santhosh Mani 12) bt Gujarat 66 (Dhavan Joshi 28).

Women: Group-A

Railways 73 (Madhu Kumari 18, Harshitha KB 10) bt Karnataka 27.

Tamil Nadu 77 (Okay Sathya 17, Sruthi 12, J Iswarya 10) bt Chhattisgarh 70 (Divyani Ganewa 19, NIsha Kashyap 15, Riya Pramod 12).

Women: Group-B

Kerala 73 (Sreekala R 23, Aneesh Cletus 18, Grima Merlin Varghese 13) bt Delhi 61 (Raspreeth Sidhu 26, Fatima 12).

– Kamesh Srinivasan

SHOOTING

Abhinav Choudhary wins speedy hearth pistol gold at Nationals

Abhinav Choudhary beat Ankur Goel 30-26 to clinch the gold medal within the 25-metre speedy hearth pistol occasion, within the National capturing Championships on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Sunday.

The 16-year-old Abhinav had topped qualification with 584. He was constant proper by means of the eight 4-second sequence within the last, capturing 3s and 4s other than an ideal 5.

Arpit Goel received the bronze medal forward of Sahil Dudhane, Vijayveer Sidhu and Olympian Gurpreet Singh.

In the junior last, Vijayveer Sidhu beat Olympic quota winner Anish Bhanwala 28-25 for the gold. Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu received the bronze forward of Sameer Gulia and Dudhane, whereas Abhinav ended sixth.

THE RESULTS
25m speedy hearth pistol

Men: 1. Abhinav Chouhary 30 (584); 2. Ankur Goel 26 (579); 3. Arpit Goel 21 (579).

Juniors: 1. Vijayveer Sidhu 28 (579); 2. Anish Bhanwala 25 (578); 3. Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu 20 (576).

– Kamesh Srinivasan

HOCKEY

RSPB wins Nehru girls’s match

Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) beat Sports Authority of India (SAI), Sonipat, 4-2 within the last of the SNBP 2nd Nehru girls’s hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.

The champion RSPB team with the Nehru women’s hockey trophy
in Delhi on Sunday.

The champion RSPB crew with the Nehru girls’s hockey trophy
in Delhi on Sunday.
| Photo Credit:
Special Arrangement

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The champion RSPB crew with the Nehru girls’s hockey trophy
in Delhi on Sunday.
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Special Arrangement

Preeti Dubey of the Railways crew, who scored one of many 4 targets within the last, was adjudged ‘best player of the match’. The Saiyid Hamid fair-play trophy was offered to the SAI, Sonipat, crew. The champion crew was offered with Rs. 1,00,000. The runner-up was given Rs.50,000.

THE RESULTS (FINAL)

RSPB 4 (Preeti Dubey, Lalrindiki, Karishma Yadav, Bharti Saroha) bt SAI, Sonipat, 2 (Ritika Gahlot, Nidhi).