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Wow .....great seeing the latest list of 2023 world championship results ..... India at 16th position on the 2023 list is unbelievable .... above Jamaica and Kenya .... pinch me am I awake .... .... it is not unusually large in terms of total medals (10) but the 4 golds are rocketing India up ....hope this will be sustained in Paris .....

Yes that would be conservative as the rights for a cricket world cup would be 500 million dollars .... so if it is somewhat equally popular I would say at least 300 million more ,.now figure that you get at least 20% of that in Bangladesh , Pakistan and sreelanka .... less of an impact in other countries but again South Africa or Zimbabwe would go up as well So the question whether cricket would pay for itself in the Olympics is moot ... the question is what preventive measures would icc do to ensure that cricket in Olympics does not overshadow their money spinners ( like only 3 over 21 players or something ) Also just the viewership of the Olympics would be hugely going up by a billion or so ... for countries like Bangladesh , srilanka and Pakistan give them genuine medal choices and teams to follow .... In my view a no brainer for IOC and the resistence would come from ICC ....

It would be crazy for the IOC not to push cricket .... it will earn huge amounts for the IOC on television rights in the sub continent alone ....the recent world cup of cricket television rights to cricket were sold for 3 billion dollars.... I am not sure in which sport the television rights sell for so much with the exception of football, And possibly tennis With the enormous diaspora in America / Canada of Indians , if they get a rare chance to see world class cricket in US they will buy tickets like crazy ..... I really find some of the comments that it is a difficult sport to understand or that it is not followed in Europe really limited in their world view. Cricket is not one of those sports followed by a few thousand or million. It is the second most followed sports in the world with over 2.5 billion viewers, second only to soccer . It is an extremely rich sport as well. I think the reason that it has not been in the Olympics already is that the cricket association is parochial and has not been open to the integration. With the board open now , it is only for IOC to benefit hugely by the inclusion.

Our wrestling preperation for this championship is really poor. There has been the terrible me too scandal with the president at the center. Our top wrestlers on the street. Then the federation election issues. Finally our federation suspended...with this drama our wrestlers have been without proper coaching , participation in any ranking tournaments and hence not ranked. It is total chaos. Also the experienced core team was at the center of this so ( bajrang , vinesh, Deepak punia our world medallists have opted out of the tournament , Ravi our tokyo Olympic silver lost the trials , anshu our world silver medallist is injured ) .. The Indian side for the world wrestling Greco-Roman Ajay - 55kg Manish - 60kg Vikram - 63kg Vinayak - 67kg Ankit Gulia - 72kg Gurpreet Singh - 77kg Sajan - 82kg Manoj Kumar - 87kg Shailesh - 97kg Mehar Singh - 130kg Women’s freestyle Neelam Sirohi - 50kg Antim Panghal - 53kg Neha - 55kg Sarita Mor - 57kg Anjali - 59kg Manisha Bhanwala - 62kg Antim Kundu - 65kg Priyanka - 68kg Jyoti Berwal - 72kg Divya Kakran - 76kg Men’s freestyle Aman Sherawat - 57kg Akash Dahiya - 61kg Anuj Kumar - 65kg Abhimanyu - 70kg Naveen Malik - 74kg Sachin More - 79kg Sandeep Mann - 86kg Pruthviraj Patil - 92kg Sahil - 97kg Sumit Malik - 125kg FREESTYLE Our hopes will rest on Aman sherawat who is after all the Asian and u23 gold medallist in 57 Naveen in 74 came 5th last year so may be a long shot .... Sachin More is a cadet gold medallist from last year and pruthviraj is cadet bronze from 2021 so are very young but we need see how they make their transition to senior ranks GRECO No hopes realistically but gurpreet (77) and sajan (82) may be our best bets. WOMEN Two youngsters are our best bet here Obviously antim pangal who is a double gold medallist in the under 20 world championship and a silver in the senior Asian championship can be our best bet in 53 KG Antim kundu is a silver medallist from the same under 20 edition in 65 would be a long shot Sarita mor is the only existing world championship medallist in this bunch so hasa chance along with Divya kakran, an asian games bronze and u23 world bronze ... But with no preperation or ranking this may be a tough road for us, I am hoping a couple of wrestlers from this may still break through

I think the fact that it is very different from the rest is its charm .... Else you will have more and more fight sports ( boxing , taekwondo , karate , judo, wrestling etc ) which while understandable are not very different in essence ....

@Sindo the medal sequence seems disturbed for example South Korea is showing 6 golds but is ranked lower ,

India's 3rd in these championship

Sui not poland

This is a 28 member squad with 5 who qualified not there ( 2 injured and 3 preferring to focus on asian games and opting out ) ..... This is our biggest squad ever .... ( Narrowly crossing the 25 at London 2017 ) ..... This is our best squad ever .... ( 3serious medal contenders .... Javelin - neeraj ( world no 3 in season world leading ) , long jump - murali and Aldrin ( 1,2 in world leading times) and one long shot in Praveen at Triple- ( 5th in world leading times) ..... The rest may hope for PB or final appearance

First time ever India finished in top 10 ( 7th) in worldwide multigames .... So great for us .... India is on a roll ... Thrashed china in shooting which also was a first .....so yaaah....thanks Chengdu .....

Retelling the David and Goliath legend.... by *nitin sanker* Since 1995 for 14 world championships , there was one country which won every championship , beyond all sports, the pride of korea was her archery team unmatched , unrivalled , unbeaten , a synonym for metronomic excellence , supported by the best coaching system in the world and with unmatched budgets .... Then there was this team which never had won a gold medal in archery in 92 years. They were famous for having the most nervous hands in archery, faltering at the last leg time and again, with 7 silvers and 2 bronzes over 40 odd championships .... many of them were trained at satara by a constable and former ward boy pravin sawant at a small archery center set up with pawned jewellery from his wife ... But come 2023 when the dust settled in Berlin the shining resplendent truth was revealed ...... Yes yes yes ...korea was in second place for the first time around 30 years .... India finished first at the 2023 world archery championship .. *Remember this day* ....

The full story of this academy reads like a Bollywood movie .... World champion archers Aditi and Deotale products of same academy built on sugarcane farmland in Satara Pravin Sawant, a police constable in Satara in Maharashtra, now hopes his archery training academy, built on one-acre sugarcane farmland, will finally get due recognition, after producing India's two world champions Aditi Swami and Ojas Deotale. Both Aditi and Deotale trained under Sawant at the Drushti Academy in Satara's Wadhe Phata area before becoming world champions. Hailing from Satara, Aditi on Saturday became the youngest senior world champion at 17 when she secured India's first-ever individual title at the World Archery Championships with compound women's gold in Berlin. Later in the day, Ojas Deotale also became the world champion when he bagged the compound men's title with a perfect score of 150. Aditi learnt the sport under Sawant. Nagpur's Deotale honed his skills after joining Sawant's academy exactly a year ago. "Aditi was really unimpressive, an emaciated 10-year-old when she came to the Stadium where I used to train. But her stubbornness caught my eyes and the journey began," Sawant recalled, in a conversation with PTI. "She was really hardworking, would not take any break after a competition and train here for hours. I knew she is a champion in the making." Nagpur's Deotale heard about Sawant's newly-launched academy from his friend who trained there and came under the coach's wings in 2022. "His shooting was unorthodox but impactful. I just had to motivate him and tune him mentally. He did the rest," he said about Deotale. The journey to become an archery coach has come with a lot of failures and hardships for Sawant, who is now an NIS certificate holder. The 32-year-old had won a silver medal at the school Nationals in Jharkhand but he failed to make it big and worked as a part-time ward boy at a private hospital to make ends meet from 2009-11. In the day time, he did his hospital duty and in the evening he would practice archery for long hours at the stadium. Seeing his passion for the sport, Manabendra Kadam, a medicine shop owner at the same hospital, became curious about him. "I was coaching kids as well as doing my shooting to take part in tournaments. Aditi had joined by then and started winning too," said Sawant. "But lack of a proper facility was a hinderance as I used to teach them at the stadium and then at another makeshift facility." Kadam then came to Sawant's rescue and decided to gift him one-acre farmland where he used to grow sugarcane. But getting a land was not enough, Sawant needed money to build walls, give the land a shape. His wife and mother came to his rescue and agreed to mortgage their jewellery. "I got Rs 2 lakh in exchange of the jewelleries, which are still mortgaged to a bank. Parents too chip in with their contributions and Drushti Academy came on it own," he recalled. "Last year we have installed floodlights and there is accommodation facilities for about 15 people. I mostly stay here with the kids, and it helps in training," he said. But the facilities are still lacking. "We still don't have lack proper equipment. I've written to the Zila Parishad, but the files have not moved till now. "But I'm sure people will take notice of the archery academy now after their (Aditi and Deotale's) success and hoping it would be given the status of a centre."

Crazy good performance by India .... 92 years not a single gold ....then 3 over 2 days 🔥..... And a 17 year old in her maiden appearance figures in 2 . She is the youngest ever world champion .... Aditi Gopichand what an amazing performance a gold in women's compound individual and team.... The men's individual compound gold medallist is just 21 and this is his first appearance ...... Ojas Deotale 💥...... Incidentally they both are from a tiny academy in a small Indian town satara ....

But doesn't cover all events in women properly . India is taking 10 in women so Iran taking 8 means they are not taking a full team in women at least ....

You have to have (2+2)*3 to cover full teams in rifle / pistol in each gender ....so you are surely missing out in your key events in shooting ....

That is a really suprising drop ... You did have I think almost 400 last time ... I think with team events in shooting just 8 shooters seem that you are surely dropping medals there .... Rowing seems you seem to be losing some medals there as well with just 2 men ....

Indian interstate meet ...... Sreeshanker has a massive leap of 8.41 in long jump which takes him to position 2 on world leading times this season .... position 1 is also held by an Indian Jeswin Aldrin with 8.42 ...A rare sight to see in world athletics 2 positions held by Indians The Neeraj Chopra effect on Indian atheletics has been great he has ....we have great world season positions right now in 3 events .... Triple 4th with Praveen chitravel , Long jump 1 and 2 , and in javelin 2 ( Neeraj) and 9 ( manu) ...

For India we had a bit of a suprise in MS with 4 players making the round of 16 , i cannot remember when we have seen that before in a BWF 1000 event ..... Rajawat had the luck of the draw when kunlavut was a no show .... But the rest were legitimate wins ..... Sen overcoming the 8th seeded Lee Jia was a good victory .... Kidambi and prannoy were more expected.... PV Sindhu overcame Tunjung which was good as she has lost to her a couple of times this year Satchi win in men doubles was expected ..... But no one in XD or WD in round of 16 .....

@Sindo when you be adding boxing world champ results ?

Semi finals ... .. Uzbekistan 9 Cuba and Russia 6 Kazakh - 5 India , Georgia , France and spain -3 Mongolia , Brazil , aze - 2 And few others one each . ..

Unfortunately did but thanks for the info about rupin , he lost 3-1 so not overwhelming loss against pouya who is the under 23 world champ

Bro can you give the India breakup that would be awesome

Can we preserve this table for posterity

Final results from the championship. For India this is huge result in the last 20 odd years that I have following India's performance in world championships .... This is the first time we have won a major world championship in an Olympic sport so definately a big big day for India 🎉🎉🎉🎉💥💥🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 India* 4 0 0 4 2 China 3 1 3 7 3 Russia 1 1 1 3 4 Italy 1 1 0 2 5 Brazil 1 0 1 2 Morocco 1 0 1 2 7 Chinese Taipei 1 0 0 1 8 Kazakhstan 0 2 4 6 9 Colombia 0 2 2 4 10 Australia 0 2 1 3 11 Mongolia 0 1 1 2 Thailand 0 1 1 2 13 Vietnam 0 1 0 1 14 France 0 0 3 3 15 Azerbaijan 0 0 1 1 Belarus 0 0 1 1 Bulgaria 0 0 1 1 Japan 0 0 1 1 South Korea 0 0 1 1 Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1 Totals (20 entries) 12 12 24 48

That is a real pity she is one of my fav boxers with such a distinctive style