Indian Sports Highlights, January 15: Trap shooter Lakshay misses Paris Olympic quota by whisker

Hemraj Gurjar was the standout performer in National 10km Cross Country Championships bagging the top spot held at Gaya, Bihar today. Puneet of SSCB was second. Sawan Barwal finished third. Ankita has begun 2024 on a bright note winning the women’s events.

Lakshay Sheoran was leading the fray to get a quota place & gold medal but missed 3 out of his last 5 shots to miss out on a quota & had to contend with only a bronze medal in Trap event at Asia Olympic Qualification tournament in Kuwait city.

 Shreyasi Singh misses out on Paris Olympics Quota place as she finishes 5th in final of Women Trap event at Asian Olympic Qualification tournament Shotgun in Kuwait city.

World no. 1 Viktor Axelsen pulled out of the forthcoming India Open Super 750, starting on Tuesday in New Delhi, due to health issues. The Dane shuttler, who finished as the runner-up at the India Open last year, announced his decision to withdraw from the event on social media.

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With the Race to Paris 2024 heading into its final stretch, Indian shuttlers will have an excellent opportunity to earn valuable points and stake claims to Olympic berths across categories at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super 750 to be held at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi from January 16-21, 2024.

Asian Games gold medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and bronze medallist HS Prannoy will aim to boost their position in the world ranking ahead of the Paris Olympics while the likes of former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya Sen and the upcoming player Priyanshu Rajawat will be gunning for the second Indian spot at the Games.

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The thrilling sport of Volleyball is set to sprinkle the flavour of Hindi Cinema with superstar Hrithik Roshan joining the third season of RuPay Prime Volleyball League powered by A23 as the Brand Ambassador.

The multi-award-winning actor has garnered a reputation for his dedicated fitness and diet regimes over the past couple of decades. Hrithik, an avid sports fan himself, enjoys the physical nature of volleyball and described the partnership as a natural fit for him.

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Indian women's hockey team midfielder Beauty Dungdung has returned to the national side in the ongoing FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi after recovering from an injury which required surgery in March last year.

The hosts India, placed in Pool B, earned an emphatic 3-1 win over New Zealand in their second game of the competition on Sunday, with Beauty finding herself on the goalsheet along with Udita and Sangita Kumari.

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Indian shooter Shreyasi Singh qualifies for final with score 115/125 at 4th Rank in Trap event at the ongoing Asia Olympic Qualification Shotgun at Kuwait city. Final start 4 pm IST.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are determined to do well at the India Open Super 750, starting Tuesday, after missing a chance to win their first silverware making a runner-up finish at the season-opening Malaysia Open Super 1000 last week.

“We want to do well in our home country next week, so we don’t want to relax with this, we are more hungry and next week also we want to do well in front our home crowd,” Satwik said.

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Suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Sanjay Singh alleged that he and his predecessor Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP MP from Kaisarganj, received a death threat over the phone.

Uttar Pradesh Police registered a case against an unidentified person based on the complaint filed on January 13, when a person had called Sanjay Singh from a number and threatened to kill them.

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