Dastarbandan crossed the finish line in 2:09.17 minutes, securing the first place and the gold medal.
Earlier today, Iran’s runner Sajjad Aghaei grabbed the gold medal in the men’s 400 meters.
Almost 400 athletes from 26 nations are competing in the event.
The 2024 Asian Indoor Athletic Championships are being held in Tehran’s Aftab e Enghelab Sports Complex from Feb. 17 to 19.
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Aghaei finished the race at 47.95 seconds and stood in the first place of the sporting event.
Runners from Bangladesh and Iraq stood in second and third places respectively.
Almost 400 athletes from 26 nations are competing in the event.
The 2024 Asian Indoor Athletic Championships are being held in Tehran’s Aftab e Enghelab Sports Complex from Feb. 17 to 19.
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The regulation period ended in a 1-1 stalemate, Mumtaz Khan and Sonika were on target in the shootout for India, while Leah Crouse scored for the losing team.
Published Date – 18 February 2024, 11:37 PM
Rourkela: A day after upsetting world No.3 Australia, India women once again played an entertaining and fast-paced brand of hockey to defeat the United States 2-1 via shootout in an FIH Pro League match here on Sunday.
The regulation period ended in a 1-1 stalemate with India scoring in the 19th minute through young drag-flicker Deepika Kumari and the US equalising through Ashley Seesa in the 45th minute.
Mumtaz Khan and Sonika were on target in the shootout, while Leah Crouse scored for the losing team. Despite the win, the Indian chief coach, Janneke Schopman, would be unhappy with the way the Savita Punia-led side dominated for most part and still could not win the contest in regulation time despite earning several penalty corners.
The win on Sunday came after India had thrashed the US 3-1 in the Bhubaneswar leg of the Pro League. The victory would have soothed the nerves of the 20,000-odd crowd at the stadium, who saw US score the equaliser in the dying minutes of the third quarter. India completed their Pro League engagements at home with five defeats and three wins — twice against the USA and once against Australia.
Having defeated Australia on Saturday at the same venue, the Indians definitely had spring in their steps but they displayed the tendency to hang on to the ball for far too long and their penalty corner conversion remained abysmal. Four minutes into the second quarter India earned their first PC, and Deepika punched in the goal, sending a solid and low shot that hit the bottom-right corner of the goal.
The US team was a bundle of energy all through and desperately tried to get back into the game, but against the run of play, India earned three more penalty corners before the end of the second quarter, all of which were not utilised. In the closing moments of the third quarter, the Americans went for a penalty-corner variation and succeeded.
Alexandra Hammel went for the shot and Savita went on her knees to make the save. However, Ashley, who had made the PC injection, had by then swiftly made her way towards goal. With the rebound falling awkwardly, the American dived forward to send a lovely looped shot over the goalkeeper and into the net. The fourth quarter did not yield any goal though a desperate Lalremsiami played in a cross from the right but the American defence was firm.
Batting first, Press Club posted a massive 227/5 with the help of Srinivas and Mahesh Muppala’s half-centuries. Later, they restricted Nizam Club to 132 in 19.2 overs.
Updated On – 18 February 2024, 11:19 PM
Hyderabad: Press Club dished out an all-round performance to crush Nizam Club by a massive 95 runs in the 20th Secunderabad Club Inter-Club T20 tournament at the Secunderabad Club, on Sunday.
Press Club rode Srinivas’s 42-ball unbeaten 60 (7×4) and Mahesh Muppala’s 22-ball 58-run blitzkrieg to post a massive 227/5 in 20 overs. Later, Press Club skittled out Nizam Club for 132 in 19.2 overs. For Press Club, Shail (2/9), Shiva Krishna (2/21) and Deekshith (2/29) scalped two wickets each while Hanuma, Mahesh took a wicket each.
Earlier, asked to bat first, Press Club got off to a strong start with Rathna (32 off 20; 7×4) and Anoop (19 off 13; 4×4) adding 41 runs in 4.2 overs for the first wicket. After their dismissals, Srinivas steadied the innings in the middle. Though Press Club lost three wickets in the middle phase, Mahesh joined hands with Srinivas and stitched an unbeaten 104-run stand in just 47 balls. Mahesh took a special liking for Nizam Club bowlers hitting runs at will. While Mahesh hit four sixes and five boundaries in his knock, Srinivas’s innings was laced with seven boundaries.
In reply, Nizam Club was off to a sedate start losing first two wickets for just 22 runs in 4.1 overs. Opener Vivaan Satwalekar waged a lone battle with a 38-ball 52 (5×4, 3×6). He added 54 runs for the third wicket before being dismissed in the 11th over. From there on, the opposition was never in the chase. Srinivas, for this all-round show, was adjudged the Player of the Match.
Brief Scores: Press Club 227/5 in 20 overs (Srinivas 60 not out, Mahesh Muppala 58 not out; Shashank Sonthalia 2/41, Ausaaf 2/52) bt Nizam Club 132 in 19.2 overs (Vivaan Satwalekar 52; Shail 2/9, Shiva Krishna 2/21, Deekshith Reddy 2/29);
FMC Club 212/4 in 20 overs (Vishnua Alladi 53, Alankrit Agarwal 45 no; Yudish Surapaneni 2/37) lost to JHIC 213/4 in 17.2 overs (Yudish Surapaneni 86 no, Aravind 45 no; Srujan Vadla 2/38).
Cricket Excellence Academy in line with International standards will be set up at the Rajiv Gandhi stadium in Uppal.
Published Date – 18 February 2024, 10:53 PM
Hyderabad: Cricket Excellence Academy in line with International standards will be set up at the Rajiv Gandhi stadium in Uppal. A decision to this effect was taken at the 86th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hyderabad Cricket Association held under the chairmanship of HCA president A Jagan Mohan Rao on Sunday.
The academy will have provision for boarding and other facilities for 250 persons. A separate academy for women cricketers with an intake of 100 students is also being planned besides constitution of a special committee for the welfare of women cricketers.
The HCA has also decided to establish four satellite academies within the Greater Hyderabad Municpal Coproration (GHMC) jurisdiction. A proposal to build an international stadium in Hyderabad at a cost of Rs 100 crores was also mooted in the AGM. It was also decided that the Apex Council should work for the release of pending funds from BCCI.
The AGM has also decided to promote the sport in a big way in districts. Towards this a District Cricket Development Committee would be set up. Construction of mini stadiums would also be taken up. Former cricketers and adminitsrators including Mohammad Azharuddin, Shivlal Yadav, Arshad Ayub, G Vinod, Anil, John Manoj, V Hanumanth Rao, Chamundeswarnath, SeshNarayan, Amarnath, Vanka Prathap, Agam Rao and others attended the AGM.
He defeated his Brazilian rival Elielton De Oliveira in the final match of the J1 -60kg, Tehran Times reported.
Shiwen Zhu from China and Uruguayan judoka Henry Borges won the bronze medals.
Almost 250 judokas from 47 nations compete in the city of Heidelberg, Germany, for the first Paralympic qualifier of 2024.
Iran’s Vahid Nouri will also partake in the J2 +90kg J2 in the event.
The tournament is being held from Feb. 14 to 19.
Germany hosts the first tournament of three that holds the final list of athletes qualified for Paris 2024.
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Secunderabad Blues Junior FC rallied from a goal down to record a 2-1 win over Susai Senior FC in the Telangana Football Association’s C-Division Football League clash
Published Date – 18 February 2024, 09:08 PM
Hyderabad: Secunderabad Blues Junior FC rallied from a goal down to record a 2-1 win over Susai Senior FC in the Telangana Football Association’s C-Division Football League clash at Reeds Football Ground Bowenpally on Sunday.
Aman Kumar Yadav opened the scoring to give Susai Senior’s 1-0 lead in the 17th minute. But Secunderabad Blues bounced back through Vishal and Jahil Ali’s strikes in the 35th and 45th minute respectively to turn the tie in their favour.
Results: Secunderabad Blues Jr FC 2 (Vishal 1, Jahid Ali 1) bt Susai Sr FC 1 (Aman Kumar Yadav 1).
The result gave India their biggest win by runs in Tests to go 2-1 up in the five-match series
Published Date – 18 February 2024, 06:56 PM
Rajkot: Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a phenomenal unbeaten double-century while local lad Ravindra Jadeja followed up his first-innings century with a five-wicket haul in the fourth innings as India hammered England by 434 runs in the third Test at the Niranjan Shah Stadium here on Sunday.
Jaiswal, who retired hurt on 104 due to back cramps on Day Three, remained unbeaten on a career-best score of 214 off 236 balls. He hit 14 fours and 12 sixes and levelled with Wasim Akram for the world record for most sixes in a Test innings.
Jaiswal is also the first Test player to hit 20 sixes in a series. With his smooth power game enthralling fans under bright sunshine, Jaiswal is now the leading run-getter in the ongoing series and also became the third-youngest player to smash two double-centuries in Tests, behind Vinod Kambli and Don Bradman.
On the other hand, Gill made a fine 91 while Sarfaraz piled on the misery for England’s inexperienced spin bowlers by making 68 his second fifty on Test debut, becoming the fourth Indian batter to do so. Sarfaraz and Jaiswal, who come from the same school in Mumbai, produced plenty of fireworks in their entertaining 172-run partnership for the fifth wicket in just 26.2 overs as India declared on 430/4, showing that the future of Indian Test cricket batting is indeed very bright.
Given a mammoth 557 to chase, England crumbled under the pressure of runs and were skittled out for 122 in 39.4 overs, with Jadeja taking 5-41.
The result gave India their biggest win by runs in Tests to go 2-1 up in the five-match series. From 33/3 on the opening day, India have now gone to win at Rajkot with a day to spare. It is also England’s second-biggest defeat in Tests, with their implosion coming under bright sunshine, leaving them a lot to ponder ahead of the fourth Test at Ranchi starting on February 23.
Resuming from 196/2 and the lead at 322 runs, nightwatchman Kuldeep danced down the pitch to hit Tom Hartley for a delightful six over mid-on, also his first maximum in international cricket. He then slapped a short ball from the left-arm spinner over extra cover for four. Gill joined the boundary-hitting spree with a trademark short-arm jab and sumptuous drive, even as Kuldeep grew in confidence by drilling Hartley over the bowler’s head and bringing in a deft late cut off Wood to bring the fifty up of his stand with Gill. England’s frustration was summed up when they burnt a review on Kuldeep off Wood and failed to take one when the batter was trapped plumb LBW on the sweep.
Luck deserted India when Kuldeep didn’t time the ball well to mid-on and set out for a non-existent single. He took a couple of steps but sent Gill back, who was too late to get back into the crease and was run out by a direct hit from mid-on despite the batter making a full-length dive, ending his knock at 91, which was coincidentally the same score he made in the 2021 Gabba Test chase. Shortly later, Kuldeep fell when his drive sent an outside edge to slip off Rehan Ahmed. From there on, Jaiswal and Sarfaraz, the Mumbai lads, took a six each off Root over long-on fence, while entertaining the fans with sweeps, flicks, slog-sweeps and lofts till lunch came.
Post lunch, Jaiswal took a single to get his 150 and then scooped James Anderson over fine leg for a boundary. If this wasn’t enough, Jaiswal treated Anderson with absolute disdain – smashing sixes over fine leg, cover, and straight down the ground to take 21 runs off the over. Sarfaraz continued to get boundaries by picking the leg-side gaps with ease, and eventually got back-to-back fifties on debut. Jaiswal’s carnage had no stopping as he reached his 200, leaping in joy, kissing the helmet and raising his hands to soak in the applause from the crowd. He celebrated the landmark in style by slicing and slog-sweeping Root for back-to-back sixes. Sarfaraz then crunched Rehan for two leg-side sixes and a four lofted over extra cover, before Rohit Sharma declared the innings, leaving England with a mountain to climb. Chasing 557, England were off to a watchful start, in complete opposite of their aggressive nature. Zak Crawley took two boundaries but was involved in a horrible mix-up as Ben Duckett went in pursuit of a single after pushing the ball to mid-wicket. Crawley sent Duckett back, but it was too late as Mohammed Siraj fired in a throw and wicket-keeper Dhurv Jurel rushed towards the stumps and collected the ball in motion to break the stumps quickly.
At the stroke of tea, Crawley was trapped lbw by Jasprit Bumrah by a sharp nip-backer, which England couldn’t overturn on review. Post tea, England fell like nine pins. Ollie Pope tried a cut shot off Jadeja but was caught at first slip. Jonny Bairstow tried a sweep off Jadeja but was trapped plumb lbw. Root battled for 40 balls before missing Jadeja on the sweep and was trapped lbw. Capitan Ben Stokes was beaten on the sweep against Kuldeep and became the third batter in the innings to be trapped LBW. Rehan Ahmed went for a big shot down the ground off Kuldeep but found long-on. Ben Foakes and Hartley put some resistance with a 32-run standoff 67 balls for the eighth wicket, but the former gave a thick edge on a cut to an impressive Jurel behind the stumps.
Ravichandran Ashwin, who left the match mid-way due to a family medical emergency, came back to take Hartley’s inside edge to the stumps and Jadeja ended the match by ending Wood’s cameo of 33 off 15 balls when the batter holed out to long-off to complete a dominating win for India.
Brief scores: India 445 & 430/4 dec in 98 overs (Yashasvi Jaiswal 214 not out, Shubman Gill 91, Sarfaraz Khan 68 not out; Tom Hartley 1-78, Rehan Ahmed 1-108) beat England 319 & 122 all out in 39.4 overs (Mark Wood 33; Ravindra Jadeja 5-41) by 434 runs
Farzaneh Fasihi from Iran won Iran’s first gold medal in 2024 Asian Indoor Athletic Championships on Sunday.
In the women’s 60m event, she crossed the finish line faster than other opponents. The representatives of Kazakhstan, Thailand and China were ranked next.
In the final of the Tehran-hosted event, she crossed the finish line in 7.20 seconds to not only break Iran’s record but also became the Asian champion for the second time in a row. Fasihi was the Iranian record holder of the 60 metres indoor with 7.25 seconds before today’s match.
The 11th Asian Indoor Athletic Championships is being held with the participation of 400 athletes from 26 countries at Aftab Englebal Complex on February 17-19.
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Safdarian topped the Men’s speed final with 12.83 seconds, followed by Mongolia’s Nyamdoo Kherlen (15.03).
The other Iranian ice climber Mohsen Beheshti Rad stood in third place with 15.69 seconds and gained the bronze medal.
The 2024 UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships was held in Edmonton, Canada from February 16-18.
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