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HANGZHOU: Singapore's Letitia Sim set a new national record in the women’s 50m breaststroke at the Asian Games on Sunday (Sep 24), amid a clean sweep of golds from China on day one of swimming competition.
Star swimmer Srihari Nataraj and the Indian women's team qualified for the men's 100m backstroke and 4x100m freestyle relay finals at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday. The quartet of Olympian Maana Patel, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Janvi Choudhary and Shivangi Sarma clocked 3:53.80s to finish sixth in the 10-team affair and make the final. Sirhari, on the other hand, touched the pad at 54.71s to finish second in his heat and fifth overall to progress to the final.
Three Olympic champions from Russia were cleared to compete at the wrestling world championships this week because they were judged to have been pressured to appear at a pro-war rally in Moscow last year.
India's men's freestyle wrestlers cut a sorry figure at the World Championships as none of them could earn quota for next year's Paris Olympics or win a medal. What was more disappointing was that the Indian wresters lost to rivals from the nations that are not known for their wrestling prowess, raising suspicion over their fitness before flying to Belgrade. Sachin Mor (79kg) lost his repechage round by technical superiority to North Macedonia's Ahmad Magomedov, while Anuj Kumar (65kg) could not even clear the Qualification round, losing 7-8 to Mexico's Austin Klee Gomez.
SINGAPORE: A typical contest first begins with fencing.
Australia's world and Olympic swimming champion Ariarne Titmus said on Friday (Sep 15) she was recovering from surgery to remove benign tumours from an ovary.
Penny Oleksiak, Canada's most decorated Olympian, is taking her training south of the border to California to prepare for the Paris Olympics.
SINGAPORE: When Singapore’s swimmers stand atop the starting blocks at the Hangzhou Asian Games later this month, they will have the end of their lane in sight, but a bigger target in mind.