India National Thread

[Prashanth 183]

Teens in Top 250 in Fencing Rankings

Women Epee

Anoushka    - 15 yrs  - 196

 

 

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

19 hours ago, sanjaydas said:

Instead of all crap; let us focus on the main sports. The rest are all of also-ran type.

 

These sports are:

1. Shooting

2. Wrestling

3. Badminton

4. Boxing

5. Hockey

6. Archery

7. Weightlifting

8. Athletics

 

India has traditionally performed well at the Olympics in these disciplines. 

 

The rest like Judo, Swimming, etc. are just a waste of time at the Olympics.

 

Let's have a guess from the participants about the number of medals we can get.

I disagree with this view simply because we shouldn't measure our sporting pedigree by just medals but with progress as well. We being a developing nation are not able to invest much and with no accountability in various Sports Federations they have become political fiefdoms. Also public and media visibility is less other than for Cricket.

But our mindset has changed in the last decade or so. Earlier, we were merely content with qualification; now we genuinely want to win the tournament.This feeling has seeped in our core sports like Cricket, Badminton, Hockey, Shooting, Wrestling and will slowly come in other sports as well.

With each Olympics our contingent becomes larger but like a large nation like ours its still pathetic but at the same time slow and steady progress

[Dolby 754]

Indian team for Wrestling World Championships:

Freestyle (Men):
 

57kg: Ravi Dahiya

65kg: Bajrang Punia

86kg: Deepak Punia

97kg: Mausam Khatri

125kg: Sumit Malik

 

Trials for other freestyle categories will take place in second week of August. Trials for Freestyle (Women) will be held on Sunday. 

 

Greco Roman Team:

 

55kg: Manjeet

60kg: Manish

63kg: Sagar

67kg: Manish

72kg: Yogesh

77kg: Gurpreet Singh

82kg: Harpreet Singh

87kg: Sunil

93kg: Ravi

130kg: Naveen

[Shravan Kumar 109]

Olympic Channel is available at Sony Liv

[Sanjib 17]

Swimming - New NR(25.83s) by Srihar Natraj in 50 backstroke today morning in world championships.

[Prashanth 183]

Indians in Action

 

FINA World Championships 2019

50mBS:- Srihari creates NR with 25.83(old 23.84)

 

India end with 2 NR from Srihari n achieving QST timing in 1500mFS by Aryan and 200mBF by Sajan

 

BWF

 

Japan Open 2019

MS:- Sai looses in SF

WS:- Sindhu looses in QF

MD:- Satwik/Chirag looses in QF

 

Lagos International Challenge 2019

MD:- Arjun/Shlok play in Finals

WD:- Pooja/Sanjana play in Finals

XD:- Arjun/Maneesha, Shlok/Rutuparna play in Finals

 

LPGA Evian Championship 2019- Rd3

T64 Aditi

 

ATP Tour

 

 

ATP 250

Atlanta:- Divj/Jonathan looses in QF

 

Edited July 27, 2019 by Prashanth

[Sanjib 17]

33 minutes ago, Prashanth said:

Indians in Action

 

FINA World Championships 2019

50mBS:- Srihari creates NR with 25.83(old 23.84)

 

India end with 2 NR from Srihari n achieving QST timing in 1500mFS by Aryan and 200mBF by Sajan

 

BWF

 

Japan Open 2019

MS:- Sai looses in SF

WS:- Sindhu looses in QF

MD:- Satwik/Chirag looses in QF

 

Lagos International Challenge 2019

MD:- Arjun/Shlok play in Finals

WD:- Pooja/Sanjana play in Finals

XD:- Arjun/Maneesha, Shlok/Rutuparna play in Finals

 

LPGA Evian Championship 2019- Rd3

T64 Aditi

 

ATP Tour

 

 

ATP 250

Atlanta:- Divj/Jonathan looses in QF

 

In world championship Swimming I don't think we have achieved any QST. Aryan and Sajan fell well short.

[Dolby 754]

2 hours ago, Sanjib said:

In world championship Swimming I don't think we have achieved any QST. Aryan and Sajan fell well short.

Sajan's timing of 1:58.45 is well within the OST time of 2:01.03 but quite behind OQT of 1:57.50. Aryan's time of 15:59.47 is way outside of OST time of 15:28.02.

 

Basically, all swimmers who achieve OQT (A standard) are guaranteed to be part of Olympics. If after inviting OQT swimmers, relay swimmers and Universality places, there are any additional quotas left, FINA starts inviting OST swimmers. So, in order to qualify through OST, one needs luck and needs to be close to OQT timing to be quite high up in the ranking list. 

 

Apart from Sajan, Kushagra Rawat and Advait Page have also achieved OST in 800m freestyle. 

[Sanjib 17]

You are right thanks.

[Vaibhav Manocha 2]

On 26/07/2019 at 00:31, Madhusudhan said:

Good bets

 

Vinesha Phogat in womens wrestling... she has some thing in her.... even though she has changed her weight category to 53 kgs (which am unable to understand even now considering she won the gold at Asiad in 50 kgs) she is too good to be defeated by wrestler from countries other than japan or russia

 

Mirabhai Chanu in weight lifting…. only worrying factor is change in weight category from 48 kgs to 49 kgs

 

Amit phangal in Boxing... again worrying factor is change in weight category to 52 kgs from 49 kgs in which he won gold at Asiad

 

Womens boxing - I have a strong feeling that atleast one of womens boxer will win a medal... 

 

apurvi chandela / manu bhaker in shooting

Madhu ji, let me comment on Vinesh and Amit. 

 

Vinesh: it was on cards considering she has had difficulties in cutting down weight and has admitted to struggle. Remember 1st qualifying tournament during Rio 2016 where she failed to be under 48? Secondly, her decision of shifting to 53 (which she feels is natural body weight) seems justified for now. Only a couple of losses - one to Chinese whom she later defeated at Asian repechage and then Mukaida. So been doing pretty good so far, reaching two ranking tournament finals and bronze at Asians.

 

Amit: As far as international tournaments go, he has participated in two and won both at 52. At Asians in April, he defeated Hasanboy (Gold at 49 in Rio) again, and before that the Chinese (Bronze at 52 in Rio). Also his level could be guaged from his domestic domination. At 52, we have some good boxers like Sachin, Gaurav... but Amit does stand apart.

 

Hope that answers your question!