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The Vijender Singh juggernaut rolled on without a glitch as the Indian boxing star took less than 10 minutes to successfully defend his WBO Asia-Pacific Super Middleweight title with an emphatic Technical Knockout win over Tanzania’s Francis Cheka here on Saturday. Vijender landed the winning blow in the third round of what was to be a 10-round contest to leave […]

Usain Bolt won an unprecedented sixth IAAF male Athlete of the Year award on Friday. “I live for the moments I walk into the stadium,” said Bolt, who will retire next year.

Teen golf sensation Aditi Ashok scripted history on Sunday as she became the first Indian woman to win a Ladies European Tour title by clinching the Hero Women’s Indian Open. The 18-year-old shot an even par-72 in the final round to win the title. Aditi’s round included birdies on the par-four second and 10th holes and bogeys on the seventh, […]

Aditi Ashok qualified for the Stage III of the Ladies PGA Tour, the most lucrative platform for professional women golfers, by finishing tied 24th in Stage II in Venice, Florida. The 18-year-old Indian carded rounds of 69-76-75-72 and totalled four-over 292 to advance to the next stage to be held in Daytona, Florida from November 30 to December 4.

Swimmer D.V. Charu Hamsini, pursuing her MBBS in Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College in Kalaburagi, brought laurels to the college and the region by winning a record nine gold medals in different individual events in the swimming competitions organised by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bengaluru recently. Ms. Hamsini won gold medals in the 200 metres individual medley, […]

Aditi Ashok stayed on course for yet another good result with an extremely steady one-under 71 that took her to three-under 141 for 36 holes in the Xiamen International Ladies Open on Friday. She is now Tied-14th, following on three straight Top-10 finishes on the Ladies European Tour. At the Orient Golf Club in Xiamen, Aditi had Indian company into the weekend, […]