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Asian Shooting Championship: Arjun Babuta-Elavenil Valarivan pair bags 10m air rifle mixed team gold

Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan bagged the gold medal in 10m air rifle mixed team event of the 16th Asian Shooting Chamiponship. | Photo Credit: The Hindu/PTI India’s Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan bagged the gold medal in 10m air rifle mixed team event of 16th Asian Shooting Championship in Shymkent on Saturday (August 23, […]

Praggnanandhaa held by Sevian; Gukesh draws with Vachier-Lagrave

India’s D Gukesh. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Indian grandmaster R Praggnanadhaa was held to an easy draw by Samuel Sevian of the United States while World Champion D Gukesh signed peace with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France in the fourth round of the Sinquefield Cup, in St. Louis. Fabiano Caruana of the United States scored […]

Asian Shooting Championship: Elavenil Valarivan strikes 10m air rifle gold

File photo of Elavenil Valarivan | Photo Credit: The Hindu Indian shooter Elavenil Valarivan clinched the gold medal in women’s 10m air rifle competition of the 16th Asian Championships in Shymkent on Friday (August 22, 2025) with a characteristically composed performance in the final. The 26-year-old from Tamil Nadu, who has won multiple gold medals […]

Sinquefield Cup: Gukesh held by Sevian, Praggnanandhaa draws with Abdusattorov

R Praggnanandhaa. Photo: X@rpraggnachess World champion D Gukesh was held to a draw by the lone wild card Samuel Sevian of United States, while fellow Indian R Praggnanandhaa also split the point with Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup here. With his second draw in as many days, Praggnanadhaa […]

Sumit Malik claims 57kg silver in World under-20 wrestling

Sumit Malik lost 5-8 to European under-20 bronze medallist Magomed Ozdamirov in the 57kg freestyle final to take the silver medal at the World under-20 wrestling championships in Samokov, Bulgaria, on Tuesday. Women wrestlers Tapasya (57kg) and Srishti (68kg) reached their respective finals to ensure two more medals for India. Tapasya pinned Dolzhon Tsyngueva and France’s Romaissa El […]

Top seed Tanya Hemanth lifts Saipan International badminton crown

Top seeded Indian Tanya Hemanth capped off a strong run at the Saipan International 2025 with a straight-game win over Japan’s Kanae Sakai in the women’s singles final on Saturday (August 16, 2025). The 21-year-old, ranked 86th in the world, defeated the unseeded Sakai 15-10, 15-8 at the Oleai Sports Complex in Northern Mariana Islands […]

St. Louis Rapid and Blitz chess: Levon Aronian wins title; Gukesh ends tied sixth

World champion GM D Gukesh finished tied sixth as Levon Aronian of USA convincingly won the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz that concluded in St. Louis. Gukesh raised visions of a great comeback on the final day of the event as he raced to 3.5 points from his first four games. Conceding a draw to […]

Chennai Grandmasters chess | Champion Keymer remains unbeaten; Pranesh clinches Challengers crown

Say chess! Pranesh and Keymer will be elated with their triumphant campaigns. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ German Vincent Keymer capped a memorable triumph in the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters chess tournament 2025 with a convincing win in the final round of the Masters section over American GM Ray Robson here on Friday. As unstoppable […]

The strongest classical tournament I have won: Keymer

Keymer drew with van Foreest to seal the title. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Vincent Keymer was a wunderkind in German chess and was one destined for greatness and the 20-year-old showed why he is rated so highly with a flawless performance in the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters tournament here. Keymer drew a topsy-turvy eighth round […]

Anish not perturbed with the sequence of draws

Anish feels he is lucky to have shared the point in all the games in the Chennai tournament. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ : Anish Giri is known to play solid chess with a tight technique and has a reputation for being a ‘drawish’ player. His 14-draw performance at the Candidates tournament in 2016 […]