Ruth Jebet Sets Paris Night Ablaze With a New 3000m Steeplechase Women’s World Record
August 28, 2016 R K Gupta
Athletics, Diamond League, IAAF, Ruth Jebet19-year old Bahraini Ruth Jebet shattered Gulnara Galkina’s 8-year old world record with an eye-catching performance in women’s 3000m steeplechase on Saturday night’s Paris Diamond League. Jebet’s phenomenal run took away more than 6 seconds from the Russian’s previous world mark that was set up during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Another big performance of […]
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Indians Get Choked in Bravo’s Last Over to Lose a Thriller Against West Indies by One Run
August 28, 2016 R K Gupta
Bravo, Cricket, indian cricket, MS Dhoni, T20, Virat Kohli, West Indies CricketIt was all going very well until India needed 8 from the last 6 balls in the first T20 game against the West Indies in USA. After West Indies amassed 245/6 with explosive displays from Evin Lewis and Johnson Charles, India responded on equal terms and reached 238/3 in 19 overs. The way the Indians […]
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Egyptian Men and Women Dominate in 2016 Hong Kong Open Squash Tournament
August 28, 2016 R K Gupta
Hong Kong Open Squash, Nicol David, Nouran Gohar, Ramy Ashour, SquashUSA’s Amanda Sobhy is the lone non-Egyptian in the final’s draw for men and women at the Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Open Tournament. On Saturday, all finalists were decided with Sunday’s title games showing an all-Egyptian men’s final between three-time World Champion and 2012 Hong Kong Open winner Ramy Ashour and […]
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic Consolidates after a Dream Debut for Manchester United
August 27, 2016 R K Gupta
England Football, Jose Mourinho, Manchester United, Premier League, Zlatan IbrahimovicJose Mourinho must be a happy man. As the new ringmaster at Old Trafford, he has won three openers for Manchester United. The first was the Community Shield final against Leicester at Wembley on August 7 and then the first two matches in the new season of the English Premier League against Bournemouth and Southampton. […]
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Elaine Thompson Repeats Rio Magic at Lausanne’s 11th Diamond League Meeting
August 27, 2016 R K Gupta
Athletics, Diamond League, Elaine Thompson, IAAF, JamaicaFreshly-minted Rio Olympic champion Elaine Thompson of Jamaica gave proof of her premier status as world’s best woman sprinter with a dominating 100m victory in 11th Diamond League meeting at Lausanne on Thursday. Thompson’s compatriot Asafa Powell took the honors in men’s 100m. Other Olympic champions, who repeated their Rio performances were; Colombian Caterine Ibarguen […]
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The Sad Story of Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis Split
August 26, 2016 R K Gupta
Indian Sport News, Martina Hingis, Sania Mirza, Tennis, WTAIn the 2016 French Open, India’s Sania Mirza and Switzerland’s Martina Hingis couldn’t progress beyond the third round. The pair had won the Wimbledon and the US Open in 2015 and began the year as the Australian Open champions. But their hopes of holding all four Grand Slam titles were shattered with a third-round loss […]
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Cameron Pilley Shocks World No.1 Mohamed Elshorbagy in Hong Kong Squash
August 26, 2016 R K Gupta
Cameron Pilley, El Sherbini, Mohamed Elshorbagy, SquashAustralia’s Cameron Pilley pulled off the biggest upset of 2016 Hong Kong Open Squash Tournament. The Australian toppled the world’s top-ranked player Mohamed Elshorbagy in the second round after an hour and half of the 5-game battle. Pilley thus avenged his title-game loss to the man, who beat him last year to emerge as the […]
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Ten Year Old Chennai Kid Praggnanandhaa Is Creating Ripples on Global Chess Scene
August 25, 2016 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Praggnanandhaa, World ChessWhile all of us had our attention focused at the recently concluded 2016 Rio Games or at best followed Indian cricket team’s tour to the Caribbean, a chess prodigy from Chennai did something that no other 10-year old had ever done before. Nearly 4 weeks ago, India’s R Praggnanandhaa defeated Czech Grandmaster Jan Krejci in […]
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Narsingh Yadav Handed a 4-Year Doping Ban by Court of Arbitration
August 22, 2016 R K Gupta
Indian Sport News, Indian wrestling, Narsingh Yadav, WrestlingEven without the ban, it was unlikely that wrestler Narsingh Yadav would have done anything spectacular at Rio. He joined the Indian Olympic Squad after being exonerated by NADA and waited for his 74-kg qualification round on August 18. NADA’s Navin Agrawal may not admit but he acted under heavy government influence in hastily upholding […]
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After Bolt’s Triple-Triple Britain’s Mo Farah Ends His Olympic Career with a Double- Double
August 22, 2016 R K Gupta
#OlympicsWithKridangan, Athletics, Mo Farah, Olympics, Rio 2016, Rio OlympicsOn the last day of 2016 Games’ Track-and-field action, legendary long-distance runner Mo Farah of Great Britain added 5000m gold medal to the one he had already collected in 10000m last Sunday. Farah thus repeated his 5K/10K performance in London 4 years ago and joined Finland’s Lasse Viren, who was the only man to win […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor AXELSEN | 72,500 |
| 2 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 61,240 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 61,110 |
| 5 | Kodai NARAOKA | 55,370 |