Category: Sports

** India beat Pakistan 4-3 to win ACT hockey bronze

It was India’s second win over Pakistan in the tournament.

Olympic bronze medallist India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan 4-3 in a pulsating third-fourth place play-off match to win the bronze medal at the Asian Champions Trophy men’s hockey tournament here on Wednesday.

** Tokyo Olympics: India Men’s Hockey team wins bronze after 41 years, Ravi Dahiya chasing Gold in wrestling

Indian men’s hockey team rewrote history as it claimed an Olympic medal after 41 years, defeated Germany 5-4 in men’s hockey match to win bronze at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.

Simranjeet Singh scored two goals for India at the Oi Hockey Stadium, along with Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh also adding their names on the scoresheet.

Aug 05, 2021

** PM congratulates Bhavina Patel for her performance at Tokyo Paralympics

India’s table tennis player Bhavina Patel created history at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday when she astonished her world world no. 3 Chinese competitor 3-2 to become the first table tennis player from the country to reach the final of the Paralympic.

This was Patel’s first victory against the former world number one Zhang Miao of China in the women’s singles Class four semi-final matches. The two players had met 11 times before.

August 28, 2021

** Shooter Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Paralympics

A 19- year-old Shooter Avani Lekhara created history on August 30 and became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics,  firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event here.

Avani completed with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record.

She is  the  fourth Indian athlete to win a Paralympics gold after swimmer Murlikant Petkar (1972), javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia (2004 and 2016) and high jumper Thangavelu Mariyappan (2016).

Aug 2021

** BWF World Championships: Kidambi Srikanth Creates History

Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth on Saturday defeated compatriot Lakshya Sen 17-21, 21-14, 21-17 in the Men’s Singles semi-finals to reach his maiden BWF World Badminton Championships final.

The 28-year-old beat Lakshya in a thrilling match to become the first-ever Indian male badminton player to enter the World Championships final.

** Know Your City: How badminton was born in Pune as a pastime for bored British officers, their wives

The first informal set of rules of badminton — initially called ‘Poona’ – were formed in India by the British colonists in 1867. Later, as the British officers took the game back home, it acquired the name of Badminton after the country estate of Duke of Beaufort.

In March 1873, an English sports lover sent out a request to The Field: The Country Gentlemen’s Newspaper in England for information about the new ‘Badminton game of Battledore’ that, he had heard, was a favourite in India and was picking up in Britain.