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Arab Times
5 days ago
- Sport
- Arab Times
Al-Mutairi returns home with Asian Youth Championships bronze
KUWAIT CITY, May 29: Kuwaiti boxer Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi returned to the country after securing third place and winning the bronze medal in the 71 kg category at the Asian Youth Championships, held in Sri Lanka from May 10 to 24. Al-Mutairi was welcomed upon arrival by the Secretary-General of the Kuwait Boxing Federation, Mutlaq Al-Azmi, and the Federation's Director, Abdullah Hussein. Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Head of the Delegation, Bader Al-Faraj, expressed his heartfelt gratitude to His Excellency the Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi, and to the Acting Director-General of the Public Authority for Sports, Bashar Abdullah. He praised their ongoing support for Kuwaiti boxing and their commitment to removing obstacles to the success of Kuwait's athletes.
Time of India
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Bihar's Alka wins shot put gold as Arjunan & 4 others rewrite MRs
of Tamil Nadu led a bunch of determined boys who broke five on the opening day of athletics competitions of Bihar at Pataliputra Sports Complex in Patna on Bihar's won an emotional gold for the hosts in girls' shot put with a 14.73m throw to share the limelight on the day with the record-breaking broke the boys long jump mark three times and added a silver in the 110m hurdles to be the standout performer of the day, just ahead of Rajasthan discus thrower Hansraj Dhayal. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Dhayal surprised teammate Vishal Kumar and Haryana's Nischay, an Asian Youth Championships bronze medalist, with a throw of 63.18m — a new KIYG Farooq Chafekar conquered the boys' 110m hurdles with a new meet record of 13.48 seconds. That win came soon after Maharashtra's Shourya Ambura won the first gold of track events in the girls' 100m hurdles. Late in the evening, her statemate Rohit Shivaji Binnar (boys 3000m) joined the list of record-breakers , clocking 47.67 seconds in the first heats of the 400m. A bronze medalist in the National Youth Championships in March, Kabir Khan improved on the 400m mark set at 48.34 by CR Abdul Razak in 2019. Sayed Sabeer dipped in under 48 seconds in the tougher heat that followed, to raise visions of a keen final.
Hindustan Times
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
TT: India turns focus to doubles ahead of LA 2028
Mumbai: The senior World Championships in Doha starting on May 17 and the Asian Youth Championships (June 26-July 2) in Tashkent will provide the Indian table tennis team's head coach Massimo Costantini a chance to take stock of and draw a roadmap in an area where Indians have had greater success at global level: doubles. The plan assumes greater significance given that all three doubles events will return to the TT programme at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. It is in those events that Indians have made bigger moves more frequently in top level WTT and multi-sport tournaments in the recent past. A few days ago, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale captured the mixed doubles title at the WTT Contender Tunis, beating the higher-ranked Miwa Harimoto and Sora Matsushima of Japan in the final. A couple of years ago, Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee delivered India's first women's doubles medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games going past the Chinese in their den, backing it up with another bronze medal at the 2024 Asian Championships. A few months back in Doha, Manush and Manav Thakkar became India's first men's doubles pair to reach the WTT Star Contender semis. All these pairs will be in the mix at Doha, and younger, untested ones at the Asian youth tournament. Post that, and once the format and qualification system for the Olympics is known, Costantini will start planning to firm up pairs with LA in mind and perhaps experiment and expand the combinations and pool. 'With the Olympics, doubles now is more relevant than before,' Costantini said. 'All the countries are starting to prepare and deploy more resources on this. It's something we will have to reflect too.' It helps that the current combinations have 'delivered historic results', said the Italian, with things 'quite steady and stable' in mixed doubles (Diya/Manush) and men's doubles (Manush/Manav). The latter are world No.9, while the former's win in Tunis was belief-boosting after losing to the Japanese pair in the Doha Star Contender quarter-finals. 'You don't elevate confidence from just getting points winning lower-level tournaments but by beating the relevant world-class players, the kind that maybe you didn't beat before,' Costantini said. 'For me, it's a little summary of the last 6-8 months, since we restarted the cycle after the (Paris) Olympics. Manav and Manush are almost always in the quarters or semis of the bigger tournaments, and so are Manush and Diya. And they're all relatively young. 'For the rest, we will have to assess from time to time, and whether some results are sporadic achievements.' In the past, such sporadic sparks have faded away in doubles. Manika Batra and Archana Kamath had surged as high as world No.4 in women's doubles but had little to show in terms of big titles. Manika and G Sathiyan teamed up for mixed doubles targetting the Paris Games, and after showing plenty of promise initially, the pair couldn't even qualify. Part of the issue in the Manika-Sathiyan dip was their inability to train together and play enough tournaments. Lessons will have to be learnt from that to sustain the doubles momentum over the next few years. It's where Costantini's role and presence of a national setup will come into play. 'We have well established a national team environment. If this is not there, players will more likely go in different directions, be more individual, and without a proper plan. One time they will play with somebody, and then somebody else, just to make the volume (for points),' the head coach said. 'The more we strengthen this aspect, the better our planning can be, including in testing certain players and getting them into more competitions.' Part of that testing was to bring together Manav and Manika, India's highest ranked singles players currently, for mixed doubles in the post-Paris reset. The combination hasn't taken off just as yet. 'They played in a couple of tournaments but haven't had too many opportunities since. Let's see how it shapes up,' he said.
Daily Express
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Daily Express
Anif clinches national U18 doubles title
Published on: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Published on: Tue, Apr 29, 2025 By: GL Oh Text Size: Anif (back) and Damien. Kota Kinabalu: Sabahan Datu Anif Datu Asrah captured the men's doubles title at the just concluded Petronas National Under-18 Badminton Championship 2025 held at the Akademi Badminton Perak in Ipoh over the weekend. The 17-year-old BAM (Badminton Association of Malaysia) based player partnered Damien Ling Tang Le and lived up to their top seeds status to defeat third/fourth seed Zi Hin Heng and Ethan Oh Jun Hui 15-6, 15-12 in the final. However, he was unable to repeat the success in the mixed doubles as the top seeds when he and Dania Sofea from Johor had to settle for silver after losing to second seeded pair Lo Ziheng and N. Maisarah Ramdan 16-14, 10-15, 14-16 in a nail-biting final. Another Sabahan Muhammad Nur Azhar Zunaide also did well in the men's doubles to take home the bronze medal with Siau Yu Hang from Johor as his partner. The pair were forced to concede a walkover to Ethan and Zi in the semi-final due to Siau's injury sustained during the quarterfinal three-set 4-15, 15-13.17-15 win over BAM pair Isyraf Hafizin Ibrahim and Ungku Mohamed Ungku Ameer Alif. Sabah Badminton Association (SBA) president, Datuk Dr. Maijol Mahap in a statement on Monday said he is very proud of their achievement. 'Anif has already displayed his potential at the Asian Youth Championships in Indonesia last year. 'His success this time further proved that his partnership with Damien Ling and Dania Sofea are on the right track to achieve more success in the future. 'The success of Anif and Nur Azhar proved that our players not only have the talent and agility on the court, but also possess fighting spirit. 'In addition we also have other junior players such as Shim Hymn Isiah, Saidatul Saadiah, Lim Xe Xuan and Jing Xuan Chua who showed great potential in the tournament,' he said. He added that Sabah also brought home four bronze medals in the 1st Leg of the Junior Elite Tour (JET) Badminton Championship held in Melaka in February, as well as one silver medal and two bronze medals in the 2nd Leg held in Selangor earlier this month. 'With the positive outing, SBA is currently actively implementing badminton development programmes with special focus on players who excelled in JET 1, JET 2 and the U18 championship. 'Some of them will be absorbed into the Sabah Badminton Academy which is being established, while others will continue training at the Malaysia Badminton Academy and the Bukit Jalil Sports School. 'This is part of a larger project from SBA to restore the glory of Sabah badminton on the national stage,' he said. * Follow us on Instagram and join our Telegram and/or WhatsApp channel(s) for the latest news you don't want to miss. * Do you have access to the Daily Express e-paper and online exclusive news? Check out subscription plans available. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express's Telegram channel. Daily Express Malaysia
