Indian sports wrap, December 4: Gaganjeet Bhullar wins third IGPL title
GOLF
Bhullar wins third IGPL title with a birdie finish in Ahmedabad
Gaganjeet Bhullar, who began the week in a modest manner, closed it in a masterly fashion to become the first player to win three times on IGPL Tour. Bhullar, who opened the week with a round of 1-under 71, that included a hole-in-one, added solid rounds of 67-67 on the last two days to total a winning 11-under at the splendid Glade One Resort and golf club.
The 21-year-old Raghav Chugh gave it all but with three pars in last three holes, he fell one short and ended a creditable sole second. Chugh shot 4-under 68 and totalled 10-under for the week.
Three internationals, Filipino Justin Quiban, Mexican Santiago de la Fuentes and Indian-American Manav Shah, all hoping to become the first international to win on the IGPL were thwarted at the finish, and ended Tied-third at 8-under.
The contest could not have been tighter as three players, Bhullar, Chugh and Fuentes were tied at 10-under with two holes left. But in the end Bhullar with 5-under won the day, capped by an 18th hole birdie, that followed the crucial eagle-birdie combination on the 14th and the 15th.
-Team Sportstar
PICKLEBALL
Indian Pickleball League: Chennai Super Warriors qualifies for playoffs with fourth straight win; Lucknow-Gurgaon in 3-3 Draw
With a perfect win record after four games, Chennai Super Warriors became the first team to confirm a playoff spot in the Indian Pickleball League. The Warriors beat Bengaluru Blasters 4-2, after Lucknow Leopards and Capital Warriors Gurgaon had earlier played out a 3-3 draw.
Bengaluru Blasters, fresh off its maiden win, ran into unbeaten Chennai Super Warriors in the second tie of the day. Phuc Huynh gave Bengaluru the ideal launch, outlasting Aman Patel 15–13 in men’s singles. Chennai steadied through Mitchell Hargreaves and Harsh Mehta, who edged Huynh and Arjun Singh 15–12 after a gritty, point-for-point kitchen-line battle.
From there, Roos van Reek took charge once again, racing to a 10–5 lead before closing out a commanding 15–5 win—her fourth straight in the league—over Pei Chuan Kao. Bengaluru snapped Chennai’s unbeaten women’s doubles run with a crisp 15–8 victory, levelling the tie again at 2-2. Chennai, however, were in no mood to let their perfect record slip. They burst ahead in the Grand Rally and closed out a dominant 21–10 finish to seal their fourth straight tie, 4–2. Mehta and van Reek claimed the Players of the Tie honours.
KIUG 2025
KIIT’s Samardeep Singh, Isha Chander Prakash, men’s relay team set new meet records
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology’s Samardeep Singh Gill improved on his own All India University (AIU) mark in men’s Shot Put while Isha Chander Prakash (women’s Heptathlon) and its men’s 4x100m eclipsed the meet records on the final day of athletics action in the Khelo India University Games Rajasthan 2025 at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium on Thursday.
With just one day of competition left, Chandigarh University extended its lead at the top of the medals table to 41 by bagging seven gold medals in Canoe and Kayaking on Thursday.
Olympian and 100m, 200m national record holder Animesh Kujur then ended the competition for KIIT on a high, as he led his team to a new 4x100m meet record with a time of 40.09 seconds.
In the men’s football final at Poornima University, University of Calicut defeated Guru Nanak Dev University 5-4 in the shoot-out after a goal-less score-line in regulation time.
RESULTS
ATHLETICS
Women
800m: Gold – Amandeep Kaur (Panjab University) 2:10.72s; Silver – Rekha Piroji (Mangalore University); Bronze – Riya Patil (Shivaji University) 2:17.37s
10000m: Gold – Ravina Vijay Gayakwad (SPPU) 37:22.59s; Silver – Busra Khan (Rabindranath Tagore Univ) 38:32.80s; Bronze – Tejaswini Lambkane (RTM, Nagpur) 41:02.13s
4x100m relay: Gold – Jain University 47.22s; Silver – Mumbai University 47.36s; Bronze – Guru Nanak Dev University 47.52s
Heptathlon: Gold – Isha Chander Prakash (KIIT) 4857 (meet record); Silver – Magudeeshwari S (Manonmaniam University) 4648; Bronze – Neeta Kumari (Kurukshetra University) 4557
Pole Vault: Gold – Nitika Akare (LPU) 3.60m; Silver – Deepika A (University of Madras) 3.40m; Bronze – Dharshini (Periyar University) 3.40m
Men
800m: Gold – Mogalivenkat Ram Reddy (KLEF University) 1:51.62s; Silver – Bejoy J (University of Calicut) 1:52.41s; Bronze – Basant Chauhan (Panjab University) 1:52.83s
3000m steeplechase: Gold – Nagaraj Divate (Karnatak University) 9:52.93s; Silver – Saurabh (Panjab University) 9:53.08s; Bronze – Vikash Ray (Lalit Narayan Mithila University) 9:53.38s
4x100m relay: Gold – Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology 40.09 (meet record); Silver – Mahatma Gandhi University 40.76s; Bronze – University of Calicut 41.21s
Triple Jump: Gold – Narpinder Singh (Guru Kashi University) 15.30m; Silver – Vivek Gupta (Dr Homi Bhabha State University) 15.11m
Shot Put: Gold – Samardeep Singh (KIIT) 19.42m (AIU and Meet Record); Silver – Aniket (Guru Kashi University) 18.08m; Bronze – G Balaji (SRM University) 17.58m
Javelin Throw: Gold – Shashank Patil (Rani Channamma University) 71.88m; Silver – Utsav Tanwar (Chandigarh University) 71.59m; Bronze – Vipul Yadav (Rajrishi Bhartihari
CANOE and KAYAKING
Women
C-1 200m: Gold – Moirangthem Sophia Devi (Chandigarh University) 00:52.503s; Silver – Nikki (Panjab University) 00:54.740s; Bronze – Vichitra Gupta (LPU) 00:56.493s
C-2 200m: Gold – Chandigarh University 00:48.840s; Silver – Panjab University 00:50.040s; Bronze – Savitribai Phule Pune University 00:51.090s
K-1 200m: Gold – Pooja (Chandigarh University) 00:47.517s; Silver – Samara A Chako (Guru Nanak Dev University) 00:49.473s; Bronze – Kulsum (Panjab University) 00:50.873s
K-2 200m: Gold – Chandigarh University 00:47.532s; Silver – Panjab University 00.49.362s; Bronze – Guru Kashi University 00:51.502
K-4 200m: Gold – Chandigarh University 43.988s; Silver – Panjab University 48.672s; Bronze – Shivaji University 50.859s
Men
C-1 200m: Gold – Midhun Madhu (University of Kerala) 43.910s; Silver – Aniket (LPU) 46.133s; Bronze – Hemam Rojit Singh (Panjab University) 48.887s
C-2 200m: Gold – Chandigarh University 39.759s; Silver – Savitribai Phule Pune University 40.069s; Bronze – Guru Kashi University 42.015s
K-1 200m: Gold – Ningthoujam Nivash Singh (Guru Kashi Uni) 40.864s; Silver – Vishal Goswami (LPU) 41.700s; Bronze – Karan Shende (RTM Nagpur) 46.764s
K-2 200m: Gold – Guru Kashi University 35.767s; Silver – Guru Nanak Dev University 35.783s; Bronze – Chandigarh University 36.047s
K-4 200m: Gold – Chandigarh University 33.004s; Silver – Guru Kashi University 33.461s; Bronze – Shivaji University 35.288s
FOOTBALL (Finals)
Men: Gold – University of Calicut; Silver – Guru Nanak Dev University; Bronze – Adamas University, Mahatma Gandhi University
MALLAKHAMB
Women
Team: Gold – Savitribai Phule Pune University 81.55; Silver – Mumbai University 79.70; Bronze – Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil University 79.20
Men
Team: Gold –Mumbai University 124.10; Silver – Savitribai Phule Pune University 122.80; Bronze – Rabindranath Tagore University 118.70
TENNIS
Women: Gold – Maharshi Dayanand University; Silver – Osmania University; Bronze – University of Madras
Men: Gold – Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology; Silver – Manipal University; Bronze – Bharathiar University
-Team Sportstar
SQUASH
HCL Squash Indian Tour 4: Joshna Chinappa to take on Anahat Singh in final
Former women’s world No 10 Joshna Chinappa will take on teenaged top seed Anahat Singh in the final of HCL Squash Indian Tour 4, while Velavan Senthilkumar will vie for the men’s crown.
Josha beat sixth seed compatriot Tanvi Khanna 6-11, 12-10, 11-1, 5-11, 11-5, while Anahat took down South African third seed Hayley Ward 11-8, 11-6, 11-6,
Meanwhile, top seed Senthilkumar edged out French seventh seed Maceo Levy 13-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, and will meet unseeded Egyptian Adam Hawal for the title.
-Team Sportstar
Published on Dec 04, 2025