Indian team won 2 Gold medal in World Archery Youth Championship 2019
Indian junior (U-21) compound mixed team of Markoo Raginee and Sukhbeer Singh picked up the first gold for India.
They defeated Switzerland rivals Andrea Vallario and Janine Hunsperger with 152-147 scores at the World Archery Youth Championships 2019.
The event is organized by the World Archery Federation in Madrid, Spain from 19 -25 August 2019.
17-year-old Komalika Bari got 2nd Gold medal in the final of recurve cadet class Defeated by Japan’s Sonoda Waka with 7-3 scores.
The Indian team of Sukhbir Singh, Sangampreet Singh Bisla and Tushar Phadtare won the junior compound men’s team bronze medal by beating Colombia’s Jagdeep Teji Singh Mejia, Gomez Zuluga Felipe and Toro Vasquez Manuel got 234-231scores.
The Indians scored 60 out of 60 points in the final round. The Colombian team managed only 56 points.
World Archery Federation
Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
First Vice-president: Mario Scarzella
President: Ugur Erdener
PV Sindhu won gold at the 2019 BWF World Championships
Indian badminton and World number five PV Sindhu won gold at the BWF World Championships 2019. She became the first-ever Indian badminton player to win a gold medal at the event. PV Sindhu defeated world number four Nozomi Okuhara of Japan and secured 21-7, 21-7. This is her fifth medal at the world championships. With this, she has become only the fourth singles player ever to have a full set of world championship medals.
In the previous editions of the World Championships, she secured:
- Bronze in 2013
- Bronze in 2014
- Silver in 2017
- Silver in 2018
- Gold in 2019
BWF World Championships 2019:
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships was held from 19 to 25 August in Basel, Switzerland. It is the 25th edition of the championship. 45 countries participated in the badminton tournament.
Result:
Men`s singles: Kento Momota (Japan)
Women`s singles: P. V. Sindhu (India)
Men`s doubles: Mohammad Ahsan, Hendra Setiawan (Indonesia)
Women`s doubles: Mayu Matsumoto, Wakana Nagahara (Japan)
Mixed doubles: Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong (China)
V K Vismaya won gold in womens 400m held at MJS athletics Czech Republic
Indian sprinter V K Vismaya won a best timing of 52.12s and won the gold medal in the women`s 400m run at the International Athletic Meeting Josef Seckr Memorial (MJS) in Brno, Czech Republic.
The 22-year-old Indian won the yellow metal, while compatriots Poovamma Machettira and Subha Venkatesan finished second and third with timings of 53.47s and Sudha 53.67s respectively.
Vismaya scored a personal best of 52.48 at Nove Mesto and Metuj (CZE) along with the quartermilers in Europe .Hima Das recently won six gold medals in European races.
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President: Sebastian Coe