(DedIcaTed to My sWeet Frns)... (MUST READ & SHARE)! THE WORLD OF SPORTS... PERSONS IN NEWS: • NIRUPAMA DEVI: Judoka Nirupama Devi has been handed a two-year ban by the court of Arbitrations for sports ( CSA) in Switzerland after two panels of National Anti Doping Agency only reprimanded her in a case of Methyl hexane amine (MHA) doping during senior National judo championship in Kolkata. The verdict issue by Lausanne-based CSA may have impact on other MHA cases pending in the NADA involving national athletes... • INDERJIT SING GILL: Indias senior womens hockey team coach Inderjit Sing Gill has passed away in a fatal road accident. He was 59. He was a sports Authority of India (SAI) coach. Gill started his coaching carrier in 1986 and was working with the junior and senior women hockey team since 1999. Gill was also part of the coaching staff of the senior womens team that won the silver medal at the recently concluded third women’s Asian championship Trophy in Japan. { BADMINTON} •MACAU OPEN GRAND PRIX GOLD ( Badminton tournament)! Indias PV Sindhu has lifted the womens singles trophy at the Macau open Grand Prix Gold Badminton tournament. In the title clash, Sindhu, top speed for the event, defeated seventh seed Li Michelle of Canada in straight games, 21-15, 21-12. With the victory, Sindhu has begged yet another Tier-III title this season, after her triumph at the Malaysia open Grand Pri in May.. { CHESS } • FIDE WORLD CHESS (CHAMPIONSHIP 2013)! Magnus carlsen, the Norwegian world number one earned his maiden world title by defeating reigning champion (since 2007) Vishwanathan Anand if India in the 12-game challenge match in Chennai. He is the second youngest player after Garry Kasparov to win the coveted chess title. Anand won World Chess Championship title in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012. It was the first time an illness clause had been included for a world championship match. { HOCKEY } • ( 3RD ASIAN CHAMPIONS TROPHY )! Mens-Defending champions, Pakistan, retained its title defeating hosts Japan in the final match of the third Asians Champions Trophy field hockey tournament played in Japans Kakamigahara city. Malaysia secured the third position in the tournament while India finished fifth. Womens: The Indian Women Hockey team won the Silver Medal, losing 0-1 to the hosts Japan in the final of the 3rd Women Asian Champions Trophy played at Kakamigahara in Japan. Indian goalkeeper Rajni Etimarpu was adjudged Best goalkeeper of the tournament. Japan won the gold, while Malaysia bagged the bronze medal. Malaysia defeated China 3-1 in the bronze-medal play-off match. { SHOOTING } ( HEENA SIDHU) ! Indias Heena Sidhu has created history by becoming the first Indian pistol shooter to win a Gold at the World Cup Final. In the Womens 10-metre Air Pistol event at the ISSF World Cup final in Munich, the 24-year-old shooter got the better of World Champion Zorana Arunovic of Serbia to bag her first Gold at the world level. { TENNIS } (DEVIS CUP 2013)! Czech Republic retained the Davis Cup by defeating Serbia 3-2 in the final played at Belgrade. Stepanek became just the third player in history to win two Davis Cup Final live fifth singles rubbers, and the first man ever to do so on consecutive occasions, after bypassing Serbian youngster Dusan Lajovic for the loss of just five games. Davis cup is the largest annual international team competition in sport with 536 players from 125 nations talking part in 2013 in the ITFs centenary year. The competition is 114 years old having been founded in 1900. ( STYLO XAKIR ) √
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:08:01 +0000