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With nine different events on tap on the first day of swimming competition at the World Aquatics Championships on Sunday morning in Fukuoka, Japan, there was little doubt that the fourth and fifth heats of the women's 400-metre freestyle preliminaries would serve as the highlight.
Talented youngster Antim Panghal made a statement by winning the 53kg trials, moments after her plea challenging the exemption given to Vinesh Phogat was dismissed while Mansi Ahlawat surpassed expectations by sealing her place in the Indian team for the Asian Games from the 57kg field that had two World Championship medallists in New Delhi on Saturday. The 19-year-old Panghal put up a dominant show in the 53kg category, winning all her bouts without much fuss. Handed a bye in the first round, the 2022 Under-20 World Champion began with a 7-2 win over Tamanna and followed that up with a technical superiority win against Neha to move into the semifinals.
The Delhi High Court on Saturday refused to interfere with the exemption granted to top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia from Asian Games trials. Justice Subramonium Prasad dismissed the petition by Under-20 World Champion Antim Panghal and Under-23 Asian Champion Sujeet Kalkal against the direct entry allowed to Phogat and Punia to participate in the tournament.
FUKUOKA, Japan : The United States will look to continue their dominance when the swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships get underway in the Japanese city of Fukuoka on Sunday, with Australia also aiming to lay down a marker before next year's Paris Olympics.
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The IOA appointed ad-hoc committee has decided to conduct the Asian Games wrestling trials behind closed doors after parents of some of the wrestlers got into a heated argument with panel members at the IG Stadium on Friday. Frayed tempers and heated exchanges was the order of the day as angry wrestlers and their family members threatened to boycott the trials in protest of the exemption given to Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia (65 kg) and world medallist Vinesh Phogat (53 kg).
Most monarch butterflies live somewhere in the neighbourhood of 14 brilliant days.
In his final swim competition at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), Jacob Mitchener, Team N.W.T.'s flag bearer, narrowly took third place.