Indian sports wrap, April 1: Indian trap shooters fail to reach finals in Shotgun World Cup

SHOOTING

Indian trap shooters fail to reach finals in both men’s and women’s events in ISSF World Cup

Indian trap shooters failed to reach the finals in both the men’s and women’s events after two days of qualification rounds at the inaugural ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Tangier, Morocco.

Kynan Chenai was the highest-placed Indian at 13th with 119 after five rounds in the men’s trap event while Bhowneesh Mendiratta finished at 39th with a total score of 115.

Olympian Prithviraj Tondaiman ended at 57th, while Sultan Mohammad Asad and Gyanchand Sharan Susheel finished at 64th and 73rd respectively.

In the women’s trap event, Aashima Ahlawat finished at 14th with a total score of 111, while Kirti Gupta and Olympian Rajeshwari Kumari ended at 32nd and 37th respectively. Shreshtha Sisodiya finished 41st while Preeti Rajak was 42nd.

– PTI

KHELO INDIA TRIBAL GAMES

Talawar, Nagini clinch gold medals to extend Karnataka’s lead

Race walker Dasharath Talawar and middle-distance runner Nagini added a gold medal each to table topper Karnataka’s tally while Chhattisgarh’s Gajendra Thakur bagged a silver in the men’s 800m on Day 8 of the Khelo India Tribal Games.

Dasharath led Karnataka’s 1-2 in the men’s 10km race walk with a time of 45:13.85s with Darshan Bagadi (46:25.90s) finishing second ahead of Gujarat’s Sagarbhai Katara (48:16.09s) at the Kreeda Parisar athletics track in Jagdalpur.

Nagini then dominated the women’s 800m race to clinch the gold with a time of 2:13.80s to take Karnataka’s gold medal tally to 21. Karnataka has also bagged eight silver and seven bronze for an aggregate of 36 medals.

Chattisgarh’s Gajendra Thakur claimed the men’s 800m silver medal with a timing of 1:53.82s behind Munda, who clocked 1:53.33s.

Earlier, Chhattisgarh men’s hockey team clinched the bronze medal by beating neighbouring Madhya Pradesh 14-6. The two medals took its tally to two gold, eight silver and five bronze and is placed 10th in the overall standings.

With just one day of track and field competitions left, second-placed Odisha continued to chase the table topper with four gold to take their overall tally to 17 gold, 10 silver and 16 bronze medals.

Davanidhi Munda (men’s 800m), Roshan Khadia (men’s 400m hurdles), Dipa Kisan (women’s high jump) and Dhanmati Xess (women’s javelin throw) clinched gold medals for Odisha on a day when Jharkhand also boosted its third position in the medal’s tally with a gold each in women’s 400m hurdles and 10km race walk.

Jharkhand now has a total of 19 medals — nine gold, three silver and seven bronze medals.

In football, Chhattisgarh defeated Arunachal Pradesh 3-2 to book its final spot against West Bengal, which beat Goa 5-2.

– PTI

CHESS

Palaash Mapara emerges as sole leader in All India Chess Masters

Palaash Mapara scored his fifth consecutive victory to emerge as the sole leader after five rounds in the third season the All India Chess Masters.

Playing with black pieces, Mapara (5 points) got the better of Punit Dodiya (4) to emerge as the sole leader.

He is trailed by five other players in Shriram Mhasane, Pratik Yadnik, Yashraj Rathi, AGM Rajveer Nahar, and Shreyansh Somaiya who are each on 4.5 points.

Somaiya defeated Ahaan Kataruka (3.5) while Nahar beat Shrirang Agharkar (3.5) in other matches.

– PTI

TENNIS

Madhurima Sawant , Sonal Patil record upsets

Maharashtra’s Madhurima Sawant and Sonal Patil grabbed the spotlight with a series of impressive upsets over seeded opponents in the opening round of the Chatrapati Sambhajinagar Open Endurance $15,000 Women’s ITF Tennis Tournament.

Sonal Patil, who finished finalist at Nagpur last week, continued her good form as she registered a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory over fifth seed Anastasiya Kuparev of Germany in a contest lasting over two hours.

Wildcard Madhurima Sawant produced a notable upset as she outplayed eighth seed Emma Van Poppel from Nederland 6-3, 6-2 in a well-controlled match.

– Team Sportstar

Published on Apr 01, 2026