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NDTV
2 days ago
- Sport
- NDTV
Rishabh Yadav Bags Bronze In Men's Compound Archery At World Games
Archer Rishabh Yadav secured India's first medal at the ongoing World Games 2025 as he won a bronze medal in the men's individual compound archery event on Saturday. Pitted against Abhishek Verma in an all-Indian bronze medal match, Rishabh Yadav defeated his countryman 149-147 to land on the podium, as per After a tense opening end that saw Rishabh Yadav edge Abhishek Verma 30-29, the pair traded 29s in the second before firing flawless 30s in the third. Rishabh Yadav then extended his lead to two points by edging the fourth end 30-29 before consolidating his advantage in the fifth after both archers managed perfect 30s. Earlier, Abhishek Verma had finished fifth in qualification with a total of 710, while Rishabh Yadav was 10th with a total of 707. The Netherlands' Mike Schloesser won gold and the USA's Curtis Broadnax settled for silver after the Dutchman won the final 150-148. Rishabh Yadav defeated Riku Van Tonder of New Zealand and Julio Barillas of Guatemala to progress to the men's quarter-finals, where he overcame Yagiz Sezgin of Turkiye 147-145. In the semi-final, Rishabh Yadav went down 147-145 against Broadnax. Two-time individual Asian Games silver medal winner Abhishek Verma was handed a bye in the first round and beat Puerto Rico's Jean Pizarro 149-143 in the second. He then defeated America's Sawyer Sullivan 148-145 in the quarter-finals before losing by the same scoreline to eventual champion Schloesser in the semis. Meanwhile, both Parneet Kaur and Madhura Dhamangaonkar failed to make it beyond the quarter-finals of the women's individual compound event. Madhura Dhamangaonkar and Abhishek Verma also bowed out in the quarter-finals of the mixed team compound archery event on Friday. This was India's first individual archery medal at the World Games and the second overall in the sport. At the last edition held in Birmingham three years back, Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam had clinched a bronze medal in the mixed team compound event. India has sent a 17-member contingent to the World Games 2025 in Chengdu. Besides archery, Indian athletes will also compete in medal events in billiards, racquetball, roller sports and wushu.
News18
2 days ago
- Sport
- News18
Rishabh Yadav bags bronze in mens Compound Archery at World Games
Chengdu [China], August 9 (ANI): Archer Rishabh Yadav secured India's first medal at the ongoing World Games 2025 as he won a bronze medal in the men's individual compound archery event on Saturday. Pitted against Abhishek Verma in an all-Indian bronze medal match, Rishabh Yadav defeated his countryman 149-147 to land on the podium, as per a tense opening end that saw Rishabh Yadav edge Abhishek Verma 30-29, the pair traded 29s in the second before firing flawless 30s in the Yadav then extended his lead to two points by edging the fourth end 30-29 before consolidating his advantage in the fifth after both archers managed perfect Abhishek Verma had finished fifth in qualification with a total of 710, while Rishabh Yadav was 10th with a total of Netherlands' Mike Schloesser won gold and the USA's Curtis Broadnax settled for silver after the Dutchman won the final Yadav defeated Riku Van Tonder of New Zealand and Julio Barillas of Guatemala to progress to the men's quarter-finals, where he overcame Yagiz Sezgin of Turkiye the semi-final, Rishabh Yadav went down 147-145 against individual Asian Games silver medal winner Abhishek Verma was handed a bye in the first round and beat Puerto Rico's Jean Pizarro 149-143 in the then defeated America's Sawyer Sullivan 148-145 in the quarter-finals before losing by the same scoreline to eventual champion Schloesser in the both Parneet Kaur and Madhura Dhamangaonkar failed to make it beyond the quarter-finals of the women's individual compound Dhamangaonkar and Abhishek Verma also bowed out in the quarter-finals of the mixed team compound archery event on was India's first individual archery medal at the World Games and the second overall in the the last edition held in Birmingham three years back, Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam had clinched a bronze medal in the mixed team compound has sent a 17-member contingent to the World Games 2025 in Chengdu. Besides archery, Indian athletes will also compete in medal events in billiards, racquetball, roller sports and wushu. (ANI)
Hans India
3 days ago
- Sport
- Hans India
India's compound archery mixed team to be seeded first
India's compound archery mixed team of Madhura Dhamangaonkar and veteran Abhishek Verma topped the qualification to be seeded first at the World Games here on Thursday. Madhura, who was the winner of the World Cup stage in Shanghai earlier this year, was leading the women's field for much of the afternoon but fell away in the last couple of ends to be placed third in the women's individual section, while Abhishek was placed fifth in the men's individual. However, Madhura's third-place score of 705, along with Abhishek's fifth place (710), puts India in pole position (with 1415) of the eight teams in the mixed team competition on Friday, where they will face a young Korean pair, Moon Yeeun and Lee Eunho, in the first round. Another Indian, Parneet Kaur, placed 12th in the individual qualification and will face South African archer Jeanine Van Kradenburg, who finished 21st in the qualification. In the men's individual, Rishabh Yadav (707) and Rakesh Kumar (699) placed 10th and 19th, respectively. Rishabh will begin the main round against America's Riku Van Tonder, while Rakesh will kickstart against Batuhan Akcaoglu of Turkey. Elsewhere, Mike Schloesser and Andrea Becerra have seeded at the top of the men's and women's fields. Schloesser, who is looking for his first World Games title and after an up-and-down season during which he became a father for the first time, scored 715 with 43x. Despite winning every major title available – some of them several times – this is Schloesser's third attempt at an elusive World Games gold medal. Last time out, at Birmingham 2022, he was beaten by Abhishek Verma in the quarterfinals. Mexico's Andrea ended on top of the women's list with 706 with 27x, just ahead of the USA's Alexis Ruiz in second and India's Madhura in third.
News18
5 days ago
- Sport
- News18
17 Indian athletes to compete in World Games 2025
New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): For the World Games 2025, which will be held in Chengdu, People's Republic of China, from August 7-17, India has sent a squad of 17 members, according to This is the 12th edition of the World Games, a quadrennial competition for sports not included in the since 1981, the multi-sport event typically takes place a year after the Olympics. The 2025 World Games will feature 253 medal events across 34 sports and 60 disciplines, with powerboating and cheerleading making their debuts at the quadrennial India will be represented in 23 medal events throughout five sports: billiards, archery, racquetball, roller sports or skating, and medal winners from the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou are among the members of the Indian World Games team that will travel to list includes archers Abhishek Verma and Parneet Kaur, speedskaters Velkumar Anand Kumar and Aryanpal Singh Ghuman, as well as wushu athlete Naorem Roshibina this month, the Archery Association of India (AAI) announced the first-of-its-kind Archery League, a path-breaking global initiative, bringing together men and women recurve and compound archers from India and the world, who will be competing in an intense franchise-styled league aims to enhance the growth of Indian archers to support the nation's Olympic movement and to enhance the global popularity of the sport. It aims to be a professional platform that strengthens the overall archery ecosystem across India and the league will feature foreign archers from among the world's top 10, along with top Indian archers who will all be representing six franchise teams. (ANI)
Indian Express
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Rules of game can't be changed once it's begun': Punjab and Haryana HC raps Haryana for changing recruitment rules mid-way
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Thursday struck down Haryana's retrospective application of amended recruitment rules, holding that it violated the fundamental rights of job applicants. It also imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on the state for what it called a deliberate attempt to undo legitimate claims. Both appeals challenged a common order passed by a single judge on April 18, 2022, in two Civil Writ Petitions. The petitioners, Abhishek Verma and Ankur Mittal, had alleged that they were wrongfully denied appointments to the Haryana Civil Services and Haryana Police Services (HCS/HPS) despite meeting the criteria outlined in the Haryana Outstanding Sportspersons (Recruitment & Conditions of Service) Rules, 2018. In its judgment pronounced on July 17, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sumeet Goel observed, 'The act of the State in making amendment on 09.03.2019 to have effect retrospectively from 05.09.2018 appears to be a deliberate act to scuttle the legitimate claim of the petitioners (respondents herein), which had matured under the 2018 Rules.' The bench held that Haryana's move violated applicants' fundamental right to fair consideration for public employment. Reaffirming that 'rules of the game cannot be changed once the game has begun', the court said recruitment processes must remain transparent and equitable. The bench also remarked, 'This litigation ought not to have arisen in the very first place had the State of Haryana and its functionaries obtained proper legal advice. The action of the appellants herein appears to be merely to scuttle the genuine claim of the petitioners. Thus the appellant-State of Haryana is liable to be saddled with cost of Rs.50,000/- out of which Rs.10,000/- each shall be paid to both the petitioners, namely, Abhishek Verma and Ankur Mittal and the remaining amount of Rs.30,000/- shall be credited in the account of Punjab & Haryana Bar Association, Chandigarh for having wasted precious time of this Court in pursuing this avoidable piece of litigation.' The court emphasised that altering recruitment rules once the process has begun undermines the principles of fairness and transparency. Citing the Supreme Court's ruling in K Manjusree vs State of Andhra Pradesh (2008), the court said, 'Introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for interview, after the entire selection process… was completed, would amount to changing the rules of the game after the game was played, which is clearly impermissible.' This view was echoed by a Constitutional Bench in Tej Prakash Pathak vs Rajasthan High Court (2023), which held that recruitment benchmarks cannot be altered mid-process. The case arose from a Haryana Government amendment to recruitment rules notified on March 9, 2019, but made effective retrospectively from September 5, 2018. The petitioners, who had applied under the 2018 Rules, argued that their right to be considered under those rules had crystallised at the time of application. The retrospective change, they contended, unfairly altered eligibility criteria, wiping out their valid claims.
