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The Hindu
01-08-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Dhakshineswar Suresh enters Challenger quarterfinals
Qualifier Dhakshineswar Suresh fought his way past Mark Lajal 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinals of the $100,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Lexington, USA. In the quarterfinals, Dhakshineswar was scheduled to challenge the second seed Eliot Spizzirri of USA. Yuki Bhambri in partnership with Michael Venus of New Zealand was beaten 6-4, 3-6, [12-10] in the doubles first round by John Peers and Jan Zielinski in the $9,193,540 ATP tennis tournament in Toronto, Canada. The Indo-Kiwi pair did not get any ATP points but collected $19,050. The results: $9,193,540 ATP, Toronto, Canada: Doubles (first round): John Peers (Aus) & Jan Zielinski (Pol) bt Yuki Bhambri & Michael Venus (Nzl) 6-4, 3-6, [12-10]. €91,250 Challenger, Hagen, Germany: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Niels Mcdonald (Ger) bt Sumit Nagal 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. $100,000 Challenger, Lexington, USA: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Mark Lajal (Est) 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4. Doubles (quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Zachary Fuchs & Wally Thayne (USA) 7-6(5), 6-3. $60,000 Challenger, Astana, Kazakhstan: Singles (quarterfinals): Alexandr Binda (Ita) bt Karan Singh 6-4, 6-4. $30,000 ITF men, Brazzaville, Congo: Singles (quarterfinals): Florent Bax (Fra) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh 7-5, 6-3; Dev Javia bt Reda Bennani (Mar) 6-4, 6-4. Doubles (quarterfinals): Chinmaya Dev Chauhan & Dev Javia bt Vatsal Manikantan & Julappagari Reddy 6-4, 7-5; Matteo Covato (Ita) & Digvijay Pratap Singh w.o. Bor Artnak (Slo) & Stefan Vujic (Aus). $15,000 ITF men, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand: Singles (quarterfinals): Soonwoo Kwon (Kor) bt Sidharth Rwat 6-0, 6-1. $15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (quarterfinals): Valeria Bhunu (Zim) & Tanisha Kashyap bt Georgina Hays (GBR) & Sarah Nita (Cuw) 6-4, 6-2. $15,000 ITF women, Huamantla, Mexico: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Raphaelle Leroux (Can) bt Saumya Vig 7-6(6), 6-4. Doubles (quarterfinals): Myle McPhillips (USA) & Amanda Elkin (Mex) bt Gala Arangio (Arg) & Diva Bhatia 6-2, 3-6, [10-8].
Yahoo
29-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
US Open 2025: Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz confirmed for star-studded mixed doubles event
Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz have been confirmed as wild card entries in this year's US Open mixed doubles event. The mixed doubles championship will take place before the main tournament on August 19 and 20, where one million US dollars (£750,000) in prize money is at stake for the winners. Raducanu and Alcaraz are one of six teams who have received wild cards so far and two further wild cards are set to be announced at a later date to take the overall number of teams competing to 16. Eight of the total 16 pairs have received direct entry into the draw, including Emma Navarro and men's world No1 Jannik Sinner along with Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud. British No1 Jack Draper is also in the main draw, paired with Paula Badosa and US duo Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul will play together in front of their home crowd. Draper had initially been slated to play alongside the Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng, but he will now play with Badosa, who was beaten by Katie Boulter in the first round at Wimbledon, after Zheng pulled out of the US Open having undergone elbow surgery. He had not been listed under the 25 official applicants that the tournament announced a week ago, but he was confirmed on Tuesday to be half of one of the direct-entry pairs in the draw. Other notable wild cards include 24-time major champion Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic, while two-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion Venus Williams, who made her comeback to tennis at the Citi Open in Washington, DC, will compete with her compatriot Reilly Opelka. Current US Open mixed doubles champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori have also received wild cards. There are two more teams to be announced, according to the tournament, with the likes of Boulter and her Australian boyfriend Alex De Minaur, maverick Australian Nick Kyrgios and former world No1 Naomi Osaka, and the Italian duo Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti, both of who have made Grand Slam finals, waiting in the wings for a wild card. US Open mixed doubles entrants Direct entry Emma Navarro (USA) & Jannik Sinner (Ita) Paula Badosa (Esp) & Jack Draper (GBR) Iga Swiatek (Pol) & Casper Ruud (Nor) Elena Rybakina (Kaz) & Taylor Fritz (USA) Amanda Anisimova (USA) & Holger Rune (Den) Belinda Bencic (Sui) & Alexander Zverev (Ger) Jessica Pegula (USA) & Tommy Paul (USA) Mirra Andreeva & Daniil Medvedev Wild cards Madison Keys (USA) & Frances Tiafoe (USA) Olga Danilovic (Srb) & Novak Djokovic (Srb) Emma Raducanu (GBR) & Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) Taylor Townsend (USA) & Ben Shelton (USA) Venus Williams (USA) & Reilly Opelka (USA) Sara Errani (Ita) & Andrea Vavassori (Ita)
Yahoo
25-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Mafia bosses in Italy secretly voiced 'great respect' for Toronto man now fighting to stay in Canada
A man who police called Toronto's top Mafia boss was highly respected by Mafia bosses in Italy, a senior police officer from Italy told an immigration hearing for the man Canada has been trying — and failing — to deport for more than 40 years. Vincenzo (Jimmy) DeMaria, 71, is facing another deportation attempt over allegations he has secretly been a powerful boss helping oversee a shadowy global criminal cabal called the 'Ndrangheta. An immigration tribunal heard this week that accused Mafia bosses in Italy were caught on covert police recordings praising DeMaria, saying they 'consider him a person worthy of respect,' and he 'could carry a lot of weight within their organization,' the Italian police witness said. The hearing will decide if DeMaria should be deported to Italy. DeMaria was born in Siderno, Italy, and came to Canada in 1955 with his parents when he was nine months old and has lived here since, but he didn't become a Canadian citizen. His eligibility for citizenship ended in 1981 when he shot dead a man who owed him money. DeMaria was convicted of second-degree murder in 1982 and given a life sentence without parole for 10 years. He was first ordered out of Canada in 1984 because of his murder conviction. From that moment, DeMaria has mounted stubborn, well-resourced and remarkably successful challenges — in courts, at immigration tribunals, and at parole hearings — to rebut allegations of involvement in organized crime. In disputing, denying, and delaying, he has remained with his wife and children in Canada while periodically being yanked back into prison for alleged parole violations before fighting his way back out. The federal government is trying once again to deport him. All week, an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) tribunal has been hearing the government's appeal of a prior decision that allowed DeMaria to remain in Canada. The adjudicator at that hearing ruled evidence of DeMaria's membership in the Mafia was 'circumstantial.' In pressing its case this time, the Canada Border Services Agency is trying to bolster allegations with evidence captured by Italian police in a probe against alleged members of 'Ndrangheta who, while under investigation, visited Canada in 2019. The wiretaps are contentious because, as first reported by National Post, the sneaky wiretaps were secretly recorded through the Italian visitors' own mobile phones that were turned into constant microphones, and these interceptions on Canadian soil were not authorized by a Canadian court. DeMaria's lawyers referred to them as 'foreign interference.' Called as the government's first witness was a senior officer who led several Italian probes that linked mobsters in Italy's Calabria region, which is the birthplace of the 'Ndrangheta, to affiliates in Canada, including the probe involving the Italian visitors who came to Toronto. Chief Commissioner Giampiero Muroni headed the Polizia di Stato's Central Anti-Crime Directorate from 2008 to 2019. He spoke in Italian, through an interpreter. Muroni said Italian operations showed that the 'Ndrangheta was based on individual family clans rooted in a geographic region that were linked by a centralized hierarchy in Italy with international branches in Canada, Germany, and Australia. He said information in police files, which included information from informers in Canada, disclosed the presence of nine 'Ndrangheta clans in Ontario, each based on a family originally from Calabria, mostly from the town of Siderno, where DeMaria was born. He said there was a powerful 'Camera di Controllo' — literally meaning 'control room,' which acts as a board of control for the 'Ndrangheta — in Canada that mirrored the structure in Italy. 'This is the highest and most important structure of 'Ndrangheta in Canada,' Muroni said. DeMaria was named in Italian court documents as one of the men allegedly sitting on the board. Under questioning by government lawyer Daniel Morse, Muroni said secretly recorded conversations heard that the 'Ndrangheta in Italy, including its top boss at the time, knew of DeMaria and spoke of him warmly. This is the highest and most important structure of 'Ndrangheta in Canada In another probe, in 2019, an alleged mobster named Vicenza Muià was coming to Canada to try to learn who within 'Ndrangheta had murdered his brother so he could avenge his death. Muià needed to be 100 per cent certain before seeking retribution and wanted to check in with DeMaria as well as other alleged 'Ndrangheta bosses in Canada. Muroni was asked why. 'Vincenza Muià, but also other persons, have great respect for Vincenza DeMaria. They consider him a person worthy of respect. They think he could carry a lot of weight within their organization,' Muroni said. Muià also thought DeMaria could have information on his brother's murder, Muroni said. Muià allegedly also said he hopes DeMaria remains free in Canada because 'they think that he alone could fix the situation that 'Ndrangheta has undergone in that city.' The men in Italy discussed several violent incidents in the Toronto area involving alleged 'Ndrangheta families, including a murder and an arson attack on DeMaria's family bakery. Under cross examination, Jessica Zita, one of DeMaria's three lawyers, questioned the legitimacy and accuracy of the police wiretaps and Muroni's explanations of what the men were talking about. She also suggested the officer misidentified the man they were speaking about as DeMaria. Zita also said the wiretap evidence would not be acceptable as evidence in criminal court because they were illegally obtained in Canada under Canadian law. The IRB, however, has different rules of evidence than a criminal court and a lower standard of proof. Earlier, Benjamin Dolin, the IRB member deciding the case, denied DeMaria's motion to exclude the wiretaps. DeMaria sat each day watching the testimony on a video screen at his lawyers' office, dressed in a shirt and tie underneath a suit jacket, with heavy-framed glasses attached to a loop of cord around his neck. He occasionally scribbled notes, typed on his phone and a laptop, and sometimes leaned to speak with a lawyer in a gravelly whisper. Documentation filed in the case is so voluminous — more than 20,000 pages — that the computer system the IRB used crashed when more than one of the huge files was opened at same time. Also called to testify this week was Mark Grenon, a federal government forensic accountant who does analysis for investigations into money laundering and other financial crimes. Grenon told the IRB his number crunching, requested by the Canada Border Services Agency, suggested several red flags for potential money laundering in the various financial accounts of members of the DeMaria family and their businesses. He studied transactions reported to Fintrac, Canada's anti-money-laundering agency, from 2006 to 2013, that included DeMaria's property management and investing companies, and those of Cash House, a money services business run at the time by DeMaria's son, Carlo DeMaria. Grenon said he found several red flags of potential money laundering after tracing about $143 million sent by Cash House to accounts in about 50 different countries, most of it in 2013. The top 10 destination countries were, in order: Barbados, China, Israel, United States, Mexico, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece. The Cash House business was sold in 2015 for about $1 million, the IRB was told. That seemed a low price for a company doing that volume of business, Grenon said. In her cross examination of Grenon, Zita highlighted rebuttal evidence explaining some of the transactions he found unusual, and noted potential flaws in the data and missing information. Grenon agreed that in all the financial transactions he studied, most involved DeMaria's family and family businesses; he found only two that were directly tied to DeMaria himself. Stephen Schneider, a criminology professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax also testified to give expert opinion evidence on money laundering and organized crime. He described the 'Ndrangheta as a globally powerful, extraordinarily wealthy, and extensively active organization involved in a variety of crimes around the world. He said money services businesses were popular among money launderers. 'They are really the perfect money laundering vehicle,' Schneider said. The hearing continues. • Email: ahumphreys@ | X: AD_Humphreys When cops can't convict a 'top Mafia boss,' they turn to desperate measures Ottawa tries yet again to kick an alleged top Mafia boss out of Canada Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our newsletters here.
RTÉ News
15-07-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Rory McIlroy set for afternoon start in Open Championship first round
Rory McIlroy will have to wait for his shot at redemption at Royal Portrush after being given a mid-afternoon tee time for Thursday's first day of The Open. The Northern Irishman, who shot 61 as a 16-year-old on this course, has been paired with Ryder Cup team-mate Tommy Fleetwood and American rival Justin Thomas. On his last appearance here in 2019, McIlroy hit his opening tee shot out of bounds, made a quadruple-bogey eight, shot an eight-over 79 and went on to miss the cut by one. However, he has been given the reverse draw this time around and will go off at 3.10pm on Thursday and 10.09am on Friday. Shane Lowry is on the opposite sid of the draw, playing alongside world number one and US PGA champion Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa. Xander Schauffele begins his defence of the Claret Jug in the 9.58am group with Jon Rahm and US Open champion JJ Spaun. Two-time Open champion Padraig Harrington will hit the opening tee shot at 6.35am, alongside Northern Irishman Tom McKibbin and Denmark's Nicolai Hojgaard. Darren Clarke will tee off at 7.52am on day one. Tee-off times in the first round of the 153rd Open Championship, Royal Portrush, County Antrim (a) denotes amateurs Starting at hole 1 06:35 Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin 06:46 K. J. Choi (Kor), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 06:57 (a) Justin Hastings (Cay), Marco Penge, Cameron Smith (Aus) 07:08 Jason Day (Aus), Jacob Skov Olesen (Den), Taylor Pendrith (Can) 07:19 Phil Mickelson (USA), Ryan Peake (Aus), Daniel van Tonder (Rsa) 07:30 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Max Greyserman (USA), Niklas Noergaard (Den) 07:41 Dustin Johnson (USA), Haotong Li (Chn), Jordan Smith 07:52 Darren Clarke, Lucas Herbert (Aus), Davis Riley (USA) 08:03 Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Chun-An Yu (Tai) 08:14 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup (USA), Lee Westwood 08:25 Patrick Cantlay (USA), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Cameron Young (USA) 08:36 (a) Filip Jakubcik (Cze), Matthew Jordan, Thorbjoern Olesen (Den) 08:47 Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe), Henrik Stenson (Swe) 09:03 Martin Couvra (Fra), Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), Adrien Saddier (Fra) 09:14 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), (a) Bryan Newman (Rsa), Justin Walters (Rsa) 09:25 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fox (Nzl), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn) 09:36 Akshay Bhatia (USA), Ben Griffin (USA), Sepp Straka (Aut) 09:47 Sam Burns (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa) 09:58 Jon Rahm (Spa), Xander Schauffele (USA), J. J. Spaun (USA) 10:09 Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa (USA), Scottie Scheffler (USA) 10:20 Wyndham Clark (USA), Corey Conners (Can), Tom Hoge (USA) 10:31 Nicolas Echavarria (Col), Denny McCarthy (USA), Patrick Reed (USA) 10:42 Ryggs Johnston (USA), Matthias Schmid (Ger), (a) Richard Teder (Est) 10:53 John Axelsen (Den), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Dylan Naidoo (Rsa) 11:04 Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe), Justin Suh (USA) 11:15 Sadom Kaewkanjana (Tha), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Sampson Zheng (Chn) 11:26 Stewart Cink (USA), Marc Leishman (Aus), Matteo Manassero (Ita) 11:47 (a) Connor Graham, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe) 11:58 Daniel Brown, Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Zach Johnson (USA) 12:09 (a) Ethan Fang (USA), Rickie Fowler (USA), Adam Scott (Aus) 12:20 Laurie Canter, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Elvis Smylie (Aus) 12:31 Andrew Novak (USA), Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace 12:42 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Davis Thompson (USA) 12:53 (a) Sebastian Cave, Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Si-Woo Kim (Kor) 13:04 Bud Cauley (USA), Michael Kim (USA), John Parry 13:15 Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Matt McCarty (USA), Shaun Norris (Rsa) 13:26 Daniel Berger (USA), Keegan Bradley (USA), Sung-Jae Im (Kor) 13:37 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Romain Langasque (Fra) 13:48 Harry Hall, Aaron Rai, Sahith Theegala (USA) 14:04 Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Justin Leonard (USA), Antoine Rozner (Fra) 14:15 Chris Kirk (USA), Carlos Ortiz (Mex), J. T. Poston (USA) 14:26 Brian Harman (USA), Maverick McNealy (USA), Joaquin Niemann (Chi) 14:37 Tyrrell Hatton, Russell Henley (USA), Min-Woo Lee (Aus) 14:48 Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose 14:59 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Jordan Spieth (USA) 15:10 Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas (USA) 15:21 Harris English (USA), Tony Finau (USA), Nick Taylor (Can) 15:32 Lucas Glover (USA), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven) 15:43 Brian Campbell (USA), John Catlin (USA), (a) Frazer Jones 15:54 (a) Cameron Adam, Nathan Kimsey, Jason Kokrak (USA) 16:05 Curtis Knipes, Curtis Luck (Aus), Daniel Young 16:16 George Bloor, OJ Farrell, Young-Han Song (Kor) Second round: Starting at hole 1 06:35 Stewart Cink (USA), Marc Leishman (Aus), Matteo Manassero (Ita) 06:46 (a) Connor Graham, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe) 06:57 Daniel Brown, Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Zach Johnson (USA) 07:08 (a) Ethan Fang (USA), Rickie Fowler (USA), Adam Scott (Aus) 07:19 Laurie Canter, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Elvis Smylie (Aus) 07:30 Andrew Novak (USA), Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace 07:41 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Davis Thompson (USA) 07:52 (a) Sebastian Cave, Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Si-Woo Kim (Kor) 08:03 Bud Cauley (USA), Michael Kim (USA), John Parry 08:14 Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Matt McCarty (USA), Shaun Norris (Rsa) 08:25 Daniel Berger (USA), Keegan Bradley (USA), Sung-Jae Im (Kor) 08:36 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Romain Langasque (Fra) 08:47 Harry Hall, Aaron Rai, Sahith Theegala (USA) 09:03 Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Justin Leonard (USA), Antoine Rozner (Fra) 09:14 Chris Kirk (USA), Carlos Ortiz (Mex), J. T. Poston (USA) 09:25 Brian Harman (USA), Maverick McNealy (USA), Joaquin Niemann (Chi) 09:36 Tyrrell Hatton, Russell Henley (USA), Min-Woo Lee (Aus) 09:47 Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose 09:58 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Jordan Spieth (USA) 10:09 Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas (USA) 10:20 Harris English (USA), Tony Finau (USA), Nick Taylor (Can) 10:31 Lucas Glover (USA), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven) 10:42 Brian Campbell (USA), John Catlin (USA), (a) Frazer Jones 10:53 (a) Cameron Adam, Nathan Kimsey, Jason Kokrak (USA) 11:04 Curtis Knipes, Curtis Luck (Aus), Daniel Young 11:15 George Bloor, OJ Farrell, Young-Han Song (Kor) 11:26 Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin 11:47 K. J. Choi (Kor), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 11:58 (a) Justin Hastings (Cay), Marco Penge, Cameron Smith (Aus) 12:09 Jason Day (Aus), Jacob Skov Olesen (Den), Taylor Pendrith (Can) 12:20 Phil Mickelson (USA), Ryan Peake (Aus), Daniel van Tonder (Rsa) 12:31 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Max Greyserman (USA), Niklas Noergaard (Den) 12:42 Dustin Johnson (USA), Haotong Li (Chn), Jordan Smith 12:53 Darren Clarke, Lucas Herbert (Aus), Davis Riley (USA) 13:04 Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Chun-An Yu (Tai) 13:15 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup (USA), Lee Westwood 13:26 Patrick Cantlay (USA), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Cameron Young (USA) 13:37 (a) Filip Jakubcik (Cze), Matthew Jordan, Thorbjoern Olesen (Den) 13:48 Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe), Henrik Stenson (Swe) 14:04 Martin Couvra (Fra), Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), Adrien Saddier (Fra) 14:15 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), (a) Bryan Newman (Rsa), Justin Walters (Rsa) 14:26 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fox (Nzl), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn) 14:37 Akshay Bhatia (USA), Ben Griffin (USA), Sepp Straka (Aut) 14:48 Sam Burns (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa) 14:59 Jon Rahm (Spa), Xander Schauffele (USA), J. J. Spaun (USA) 15:10 Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa (USA), Scottie Scheffler (USA) 15:21 Wyndham Clark (USA), Corey Conners (Can), Tom Hoge (USA) 15:32 Nicolas Echavarria (Col), Denny McCarthy (USA), Patrick Reed (USA) 15:43 Ryggs Johnston (USA), Matthias Schmid (Ger), (a) Richard Teder (Est) 15:54 John Axelsen (Den), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Dylan Naidoo (Rsa) 16:05 Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe), Justin Suh (USA) 16:16 Sadom Kaewkanjana (Tha), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Sampson Zheng (Chn)
United News of India
09-07-2025
- Sport
- United News of India
Indonesia gears up to host 2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
Jakarta, July 9 (UNI) Indonesia is set to host the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, which will take place in Senayan, Jakarta, from October 19 to 25, chair of the Indonesian Gymnastics Federation Ita Yuliati announced on Tuesday. So far, 86 countries and regions have registered for the 53rd edition of the championships, which is a new record, according to Ita. "Usually, this world championship is attended by around 70 countries [and regions], and this time there are already 86 countries [and regions] that have registered. This is a record in itself," she stated. The event will bring together over 600 athletes from across the globe to compete at this major international tournament. As the host nation, Indonesia is continuing to refine all aspects of its preparations, including arena readiness, technical arrangements, budgeting, and training camps for the national team, Ita added. UNI XINHUA GNK
