Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Satywart Kadian of India won a bronze medal in the 96-kg freestyle
category at the World Junior Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria on 17
August 2013. Satyawart Kadian produced a clinical display of freestyle
combat to get the better of Turkey's Ali Bonceoglu to open India's account
at the championships. Satyawart's march was halted by Armenia' Viktor
Kazishvili in the semi-finals, as he lost the bout in the first period
itself. Satywart Kadian has also won a bronze medal at the 2010 Youth
Olympic Games.
- Usain Bolt of Jamaica equalled the world record of highest golds
after winning the 4x100m relay at the World Athletics Championships on 18
August 2013 at Moscow, Russia.By
winning the 4x100m gold medal Usain Bolt’s secured his eighth gold. This
was his third gold medal at World Athletics Championships 2013 Moscow.
Bolt won the 100m and 200m sprint at Berlin in 2009, 200m in Daegu in
2011, the 100m and 200m in Moscow 2013, as well as golds as part of the
winning Jamaican 4x100m relay squads in 2009, 2011 and 2013.With this
victory Bolt has joined the club of highest (8) gold medal winners list
along with American women's 200m specialist Allyson Felix, and retired US
track stars Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson including relays. Usain Bolt
(26) holds the world record in the 100m and 200m with record times of 9.58
seconds and 19.19seconds respectively at the World Championships in Berlin
2009. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is generally called as the fastest man
on Earth.
- Kush Kumar won the first gold for India when he beat Mohammad
Syafiq Mohd. Kamal of Malaysia 11-9, 5-11, 11-9, 11-7 in the boys’ squash
final in the second Asian Youth Games at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre on 19
August. Incidentally, it was the third medal for India in the Youth Games,
following bronze medals by girl judoka Mongjam Kabita Devi in the 44kg
class and boy weightlifter Lalchhanhima, who lifted a total of 228 kg in
the 56 kg section. Meanwhile, teenager Abhishek Yadav ensured India of a
bronze medal after he defeated Malaysia’s Dunley Foo to enter the
semifinals of the men’s singles table tennis. The Indian defeated Foo
11-6, 11-5, 15-13, 5-11, 18-16. He will now meet the top-seeded Chinese
Zhendong Fan in the semifinal.
- Rafael Nadal won the ATP Cincinnati Masters for the first time on
19 August, his ninth title of 2013 lifting him to No. 2 in the world and
stamping him as a U.S. Open favourite. The fourth-seeded Spaniard, whose
season didn’t start until February when he returned from a seven-month
injury absence, proved again the eight-time French Open champion is back
in peak form after his shock first round exit at Wimbledon. He beat
unseeded American John Isner 7-6(8), 7-6(3) to add the Cincinnati crown to
the Montreal Masters title he won a week before, his first ever back-to-back
hardcourt trophies.He is the first Spaniard to win in Cincinnati since
Carlos Moya 11 years ago. while ,Victoria Azarenka toppled world No. 1 Serena Williams 2-6, 6-2,
7-6(6) to claim the title.
- The National Sports Awards-2013 will be conferred upon the
following sportspersons/ coaches/organizations. The Government on 22 August, approved their names, as recommended
by the Selection Committees -
A. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award:
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Sl. No.
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Name
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Discipline
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1.
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Mr.
Ronjon Sodhi
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Shooting
+
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B. Arjuna Awards:
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1.
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Ms.
Chekrovolu Swuro
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Archery
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2.
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Mr.
Ranjith Maheshwari
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Athletics
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3.
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Ms.
P.V. Sindhu
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Badminton
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4.
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Ms.
Kavita Chahal
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Boxing
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5.
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Mr.
Rupesh Shah
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Billiards
& Snooker
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6.
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Mr.
Virat Kohli
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Cricket
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7.
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Mr.
Abhijeet Gupta
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Chess
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8.
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Mr.
Gagan Jeet Bhullar
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Golf
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9.
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Ms.
Saba Anjum
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Hockey
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10.
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Ms.
Rajkumari Rathore
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Shooting
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11.
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Ms.
Joshna Chinnappa
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Squash
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12.
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Ms.
Mouma Das
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Table
Tennis
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13.
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Ms.
Neha Rathi
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Wrestling
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14.
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Mr.
Dharmender Dalal
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Wrestling
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15.
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Mr.
Amit Kumar Saroha
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Athletics
(Para)
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C. Dronacharya Awards for 2013:
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Sl.No.
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Name
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Discipline
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1.
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Ms.
Poornima Mahato
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Archery
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2.
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Mr.
Mahavir Singh
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Boxing
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3.
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Mr.
Narinder Singh Saini
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Hockey
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4.
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Mr.
K.P. Thomas
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Athletics*
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5.
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Mr. Raj
Singh
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Wrestling*
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*
Lifetime contribution in coaching
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D. Dhyan Chand Awards:
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Sl.No.
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Name
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Discipline
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1.
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Ms.
Mary D’souza Sequeira
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Athletics
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2.
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Mr.
Syed Ali
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Hockey
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3.
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Mr.
Anil Mann
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Wrestling
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4.
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Mr.
Girraj Singh
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Para
Sports (Athletics)
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Apart from a medal and a citation, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee will receive a cash prize of Rs.7.5 lakh. Arjuna,Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand Awardees will receive statuettes, citations and cash prize of Rs.5 lakh each. Recipients of Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar will be given Trophies. The awardees will receive their awards from the President of India at a specially organized function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on August 31, 2013.- Double Trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi was recommended for the Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna award 2013 while cricketer Virat Kohli was among the 15 sportspersons
picked for the Arjuna award 2013 by the selection committee in New Delhi. The committee was headed by billiards
legend Michael Ferreira. Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India’s highest honour for a sportsperson.
Sodhi had won two silver medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a gold
medal at the 2010 Asian Games. In 2011, he became the first Indian to
successfully defend a World Cup title. Rising badminton player PV Sindhu,
was also in the list of 15 chosen players for the Arjuna award. She became
the first Indian woman shuttler to clinch a bronze medal at the
recently-concluded World Championships.
- French Lawn Tennis Player and Wimbledon 2013 (Women’s Singles)
winner Marion Bartoli announced her retirement on 14 August, during
the Western and Southern Open at Lindner Family Tennis Centre in
Cincinnati, Ohio. She announced the retirement after losing in the second
round of the Cincinnati Masters to Romania's Simona Halep. Bartoli is
28-years-old and ranked seventh in the world. Besides Wimbledon 2013,
Bartoli won seven other WTA Tour titles, the first one was in Auckland in
2006. Recently she won two tournaments both in 2011 at Eastbourne and
Osaka, Japan, prior to Wimbledon.
- India celebrated a rare moment of success in international table
tennis as Soumyajit Ghosh on 11 August, clinched the Under 21 men's title
while Manika Batra bagged the Under 21 women's trophy at the GAC Group
2013 ITTF World Tour Brazil Open at Santos. After
Manika accounted for host nation's Caroline Kumahara 11-5, 9-11, 12-10,
11-5, 11-5 to take the Under-21 women's singles crown, Ghosh defeated
Benjamin Brossier of France 8-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6, 9-11, 11-7, 11-2 to
win the men's singles title. The Indians also won, USD 1500 each for their
title wins.
- Meanwhile,
Sagarika Ghosh won the Cadet Girls singles title while Birdie Boro had to
be satisfied with a silver in the Cadet Boys singles at the Guatemala
Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis championships. Sagarika, the winner of
South Asian Junior title recently, beat Sreeja 11-6, 11-5, 11-8 to take
gold in the final. Birdie Boro lost 9-11, 8-11, 5-11 to Cuban Livan
Martinez in the final of the boys singles event. Earlier, Boro had beaten
teammate Anirban Ghosh 3-0 to enter the final.
- The 30-year-old Mo Farah from Britan won the 5,000m title in the
14th World Athletic Championship held in Moscow. On 11th August he had
already won the 10,000m gold. Mo Farah's career reached incredible new
heights as the Briton became only the second man in history to complete an
Olympic and world 'double-double' in the distance events. Mean while, Usain Bolt captured a fourth major
event sprint double as the Jamaican superstar stormed to a third straight
200metres title at the IAAF World Championships on 17 August. Bolt won his seventh overall world title in 19.66 seconds.
- Fantastic performance by Kolkata based Sayantan Das and Diptayan
Ghosh enabled India to regain the gold medal at the World Youth Chess
Olympiad, which concluded on 29th July at Chongqing, China. India
thrashed Iran 3.5-0.5 in the final round of the team event to win gold,
after having started the Olympiad as second seed.
This is India’s third gold in this prestigious team event. India had won the event previously at Singapore in 2007 and in Turkey 2008. Sayantan and Diptayan won gold in the fourth and silver in the third board respectively.
Sayantan had a sparkling run to win the yellow metal by getting 7.5 points out of nine games in the ten-round event. Diptayan secured 8.5 points out of ten to win silver. Two other Indian representatives Shardul Gagare (6/9) and Murali Karthikeyan (6.5/10) won bronze in the first and second board respectively. - Indian girls created history by winning country's first ever bronze
medal in the junior women hockey World Cup held in Monchenglabach, as they
defeated England 3-2 on penalties on 4 August.18-year-old Rani scored India's only goal in the regulation time
and then found the net twice in the penalty shoot-out to script India's
memorable victory. Navneet Kaur's strike handed India a 3-2 lead in the
shoot out and when Anna Toman missed the following shot, it secured
India's win. The two teams had ended 1-1 after regulation time. India had
surprised top teams in the competition and they finished their campaign in
a superb manner. Hockey India has announced a cash reward for the Indian
team. Each player will get Rs 1 lakh each.
- A six member team of students picked up from across the country
schools which was sponsored by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science
Education (HBCSE), an Institution under the Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR), Mumbai has bagged two silver and three bronze medals at
the 54th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2013 held at Santa
Marta, Colombia during July 18-28, 2013. A total of 528 students from 97 countries
participated in the prestigious world event. The silver medal winners are:
Sangik Saha (Kolkata) and Shubham Sinha (New Delhi) and the bronze medal
winners are Pallav Goyal (Chattisgarh), Pranab Nuti (Hyderabad) and Anish
Prasad Sevekari (Pune).
- India's number one snooker player, Aditya Mehta on 31 July 2013 won
the gold medal in the World Games, beating China's Liang Wenbo, 3-0, in the final
of the quadrennial event at Cali, Columbia. Mehta had earlier defeated
Thailand`s Dechawat Poomjaeng 3-1 in the semifinal. Poomjaeng defeated
another Indian and eight-time world champion Pankaj Advani 3-1 in the
quarterfinals. Poomjaeng won the bronze medal after securing a 3-2 win
over Brazil`s Igor Figueiredo in his third-place play-off match.
- India's rising shuttler P.V. Sindhu earned a bronze medal at the
World Championships after losing the semifinal to world No.3, Ratchanok Inthanon of
Thailand in the prestigious event held in Guangzhou, on 10 August. World
number 12 Sindhu, playing in her maiden World Championships, had notched
up stunning victories against two Chinese players in the run-up to the
semifinals but she failed to out it cross Ratchanok, going down 10-21,
13-21 in a 36-minute women's singles match. Ratchanok , 18, eventually won
the women’s single title at the World Championship. The Thai girl earlier
won the India Open in New Delhi and also the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold
this year. She is also a three-time world junior championship
gold-medallist. She is also a silver-medallist from the 2010 Asian Games.
As for as the IOndia’s concern, Prakash Padukone won the men's singles
bronze in 1983 at Copenhagen while Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa won
another bronze in the women's doubles event in the last edition at London
in 2011.
- Indian chess player Parimarjan Negi clinched the Politiken Cup 2013after emerging with a fine score of nine out of a maximum possible
10 points, which was held in Copenhagen on 4 August. Negi, interestingly,
won the same tournament in 2009, but this time around he finished a full
point clear of the field, which included top seed Ivan Cheparinov, who has
also been a second for former World champion Veselin Topalov. Negi, who
had won two titles in US recently, scored eight wins and two draws in the
Open tournament, which featured about 600 players from all over.
Parimarjan, who was the lone Indian invited for this prestigious event of
Scandinavia, will continue to stay in Denmark and Norway for few more days
to prepare for the World Cup 2013 scheduled from 10th August in Tromso,
Norway.
- Indian Junior Women Hockey team won its first ever bronze medal in
ERGO Junior Women Hockey World Cup 2013 at Monchengladbac, Germany on 4
August 2013. India beat England by 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out. The
tournament was played at Mönchengladbach, Germany from 27 July to 4 August
2013. India ended at third position in the tournament. Indian forward Rani was declared the
Best Player of the tournament.The
Vice-Captain and forward Rani scored India's only goal in the regulation
time. Navneet Kaur's strike helped India a 3-2 lead in the shoot-out.
Earlier, India lost to defending champions the Netherlands in second
semi-final match on 2 August 2013.The Netherland team won the final against Argentina 4-2 in the
shoot-out and clinched the trophy for a record third time. The
coach for the Indian team was Neil Hawgood.
- Ministry of Tourism, Government of India on 10 August, has decided
to support the Kerala Boat Race that is held annually in the Backwaters of
Alleppay and surrounding areas. K.
Chiranjeevi, Union Tourism Minister announced on the occasion of the start
of the 61st Nehru boat Race in Alappuzha that the State Government of
Kerala will contribute Rs.17.50 lakh for the Annual event while Union
Tourism Ministry will contribute a matching amount. Kerala Governor Nikhil
Kumar inaugurated the race. Speaking on the Occasion, the Minister also
announced a Mega Alleppey Backwater Development Project for which a
provision of Rs. 47.62 crore shall be made by the Tourism Ministry. He
said that the Backwaters of the Kerala and the annual Boat race have
immense tourism potential. The Tourism Ministry is therefore making all
efforts to convert the Backwaters of Kerala into Internationally sought
destination.
- The National Sports Development Fund (NSDF) has decided to support
up to 50 sportspersons for customized training under ‘NSDF 50’ scheme. The
Sports Authority of India (SAI) has been asked to recommend names of
sportspersons in consultation with the concerned National Sports
Federations (NSFs) by the end of August, 2013. It was felt that potential
young sportspersons who are medal hopes for 2020 Olympics should be
encouraged and supported on a continuing basis. that it would be necessary
to evolve a proper and credible selection process to identify such sportspersons,
may be in the age of 16 – 20 years, in various sports disciplines included
in the Olympics; up to a maximum of 50 such sportspersons can be supported
for customized training under NSDF; the continuance of assistance should
be subject to review of performance of the selected candidates twice in a
year. Similarly, Institutes with world class facilities and coaches of
international repute are to be identified for sending the selected
candidates for training. Executive Committee of the Fund felt that
assurance of continued NSDF assistance to our top medal prospects will
enable them to concentrate on their preparation without having to worry
about funding. ‘NSDF 50’ is also likely to generate competition for
inclusion, leading to overall improvement in performance of sportspersons.
- India Shines on Wrestling Mat at World Police and Fire Games which
held in Belfast. A seven member Indian wrestling team finished the Belfast
Games by winning 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze medals. The
second day of the competition witnessed Free-style wrestling bouts and the
results were as under –
Free-style Wrestling :
1. Laxmi Narayan from BSF won Gold medal in 60 Kg category.
2. Manoj Kumar from CRPF won Silver medal in 60 kg category
3. Naveen Mor from Haryana Police won Gold Medal in +96 Kg category
4. Jitender Kumar from Haryana Police won Silver Medal in 74 Kg category
5. Surajbeer Singh of Punjab Police won Bronze medal in 84 Kg category
6. Vikramjit Singh of CRPF won Bronze medal in 96 Kg category. - Earlier on August 6, Indian wrestlers had grabbed 3 Gold, 2 Silver
and 1 Bronze medals in the Greeco Roman category. On the third day of the
Archery competition from the Indian team, Dipul Boro of CRPF won a Gold
medal in Long Bow (traditional) event. The 3-member Indian team which participated
for the first time in the World Police and Fire Games was able to win 4
Gold and 3 Silver medals at this prestigious event.
- Serena Williams defeated Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-0 in the
final match of women's Rogers Cup on 11 August 2013. With this, she
captured her 54th WTA singles title. The
Rogers Cup was held at Rexall Centre, Toronto from 3 August 2013 to 11
August 2013. Serena Williams won the Rogers Cup for the third time. The
Rogers Cup initiated in 1881 for the men and 1892 for the women.
- Olympic champion Usain Bolt regained his 100m world title and won a
fourth individual World Championships gold with a
season's best of 9.77 seconds in Moscow World Athletic Championship. The
six-time Olympic champion overtook Justin Gatlin in the final stages,
forcing the American to settle for silver in 9.85. Bolt's compatriot Nesta
Carter (9.95) claimed bronze, while Britain's James Dasaolu was eighth
(10.21).
Moscow 2013 World 100m result:
1. Usain Bolt (Jam) 9.77 seconds ,Gold
2. Justin Gatlin (US) 9.85, Silver
3. Nesta Carter (Jam) 9.95, Bronze
