Indian racketlon team wins Nation Cup in Austria
New Delhi, Aug 30: The India racketlon team upset Britain 137-101 to win its maiden Nations Cup title in Graz, Austria. Racketlon is a combination sport in which the competitors are required to play four racket sports: table tennis, badminton, tennis and squash. Captain Ashutosh Pednekar of the Indian Navy contributed to the team’s victory over the weekend. The other members of the winning squad were Vikramaditya Chaufla, Adarsh Vikram, Sidharth Nandal, Varinder Singh and Karan Taneja. Chaufla, who also represented India in the World University Badminton Championships in 2012, won a silver in the singles C category. He later teamed up with Karan Taneja to secure a silver in the men’s doubles as well. (PTI)
Divya wins women’s Air Pistol T6 National trials
New Delhi, Aug 30: Karnataka’s Divya TS won the women’s 10m Air Pistol T6 national shooting trials, with a 16-12 win in the gold medal match against Haryana’s Rhythm Sangwan, here at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. Rhythm, however, won both the Youth and Junior Women’s Air Pistol T6 trials to land a double on yet another profitable day. Neha of Uttar Pradesh had topped the 283-strong qualifying field in the Women’s Air Pistol with a score of 582, while Divya and Rhythm had finished second and third with 576 and 575 respectively. In the Junior Women’s final, Rhythm beat UP’s Divanshi Dhama 16-8 to clinch gold while in the Youth final, she beat yet another UP girl Mansi Anand 16-2 to register a double. (IANS)
