Indian Sports Highlights, January 21: Devika Sihag wins women's singles title at Swedish Open
Catch the live updates of Indian athletes' performances across events happening across the world on January 21.
Devika Sihag
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Skeet Mixed Team pair of Gurjoat Khangura and Raiza Dhillon wins bronze medal at Asia Olympic Qualification Shotgun in Kuwait. They beat the home team of Al Rashidi and Al Shamaa 41-39 (out of 48) in bronze medal match. They were 7th in qualification with score 138/150.
The soon-to-be world no. 1 pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty fought valiantly in a 21-15, 11-21, 18-21 defeat against reigning World Champions Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae of Korea.
Devika Sihag wins the women's singles at the Swedish Open International Series beating World Rank 79 Leonice Huet of France by 18- 21, 21-14, 21-19.
With just over six months left for the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Indian men's hockey team is set to compete in a series of preparatory matches in Cape Town, South Africa, between 22nd January and 28th January, against France, South Africa and the current World No. 1 side the Netherlands.
The Indian Women’s Hockey5s Team commenced their journey from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru to Muscat, Oman on Sunday morning to take part in the first edition of the FIH Hockey5s Women’s World Cup.
The Indian Women's Hockey5s Team, which comfortably beat Thailand 7-2 in the Final of the 2023 Women's Asian Hockey5s World Cup Qualifier to confirm a spot for the prestigious tournament, find themselves in Pool C alongside the United States of America, Poland and Namibia.
Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha made a runner-up finish at Nonthaburi Challenger III held at Nonthaburi, Thailand, as part of the ATP Challenger Tour. They lost to British Luke Johnson and Tunisian Skander Mansouri by 5-7, 4-6 in the final.
In a comeback tournament since the 2022 World Championships, Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Ravi Kumar Dahiya wins bronze in Men's 61 kg Freestyle at Henri Deglane Grand Prix in France.
Man Singh wins gold at the Asian Marathon Championships 2024 in Hong Kong today. He clock an impressive time of 2:14:19. He has rewritten history by becoming only the 2nd Indian man to win the Asian Marathon Championship.
After the Indian women's hockey team failed to book their berth for the 2024 Paris Olympics in front of the home crowd in Ranchi, many speculations have come forward regarding the future of the current Indian coach Janneke Schopman.
Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey assured the federation would not make any hasty decision.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty reached their second straight final in two weeks in a row on the BWF World Tour on Saturday at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall in New Delhi, as they beat their arch-nemesis Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia in the India Open Super 750 men's doubles semifinal.
Now, following their ascendency to the India Open final, the Indian pair, who became the world no. 1 in October last year following their Asian Games gold medal-winning show in Hangzhou before losing the spot to Liang and Wang, will reclaim the spot in the men's doubles category.
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