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CHESS

Sahiti Varshini Reti-Farkas Chaladi Boraszati ​​won the Blitzverse Blitz Chess Championship

Hyderabad: M. Sahiti Varshini won the Reti-Farkas Chaladi Boraszati ​​Blitzversny Blitz Chess Championship in Budapest, Hungary by seven points after nine rounds, her father, coach Lokeshwara Rao said.

Sahiti cheated the three general directors Aveskulov Valery and Neverov Valery, Ukrainian and Hungarian Chebe Attila.

Thanks to this performance, 15-year-old Sahiti scored 58 points in the blitz rating.

For information, the young talent from Visakhapatnam, who recently won the Women’s Magnus Chess Challenger Championship, has already won nine international medals.

-VV SUBRAHMANYAM

Asian Chess Championship: Nandhidhaa punishes Priyanka, Harsha holds off Pragnanandhaa to stay ahead

New Delhi: PV Nandhidhaa ended overnight leader N. Priyanka’s dominance in 61 moves to take a one-point lead in the women’s division with 5.5 points after six rounds of the Asian Chess Championship here on Monday.

Priyanka made a mistake on the 21st move and made her suffer for the next 40 moves in the top board battle.

In the open division, Harsha Bharatakoti (5 points) maintained his half-point lead after holding off top seed R. Praggnanandhaa by 33 strides. Three rounds left.

Sixth-round leading scorers (Indians unless otherwise noted):

Open: Harsha Bharatakoti (5) tied with R. Pragnanandhaa (4.5); Leon Mendonca (4.5) tied with SP Sethuraman (4.5); M. Karthikeyan (4.5) tied with B. Adhiban (4.5); Shamsiddin Vohidov (Uzb, 4.5) tied with Maksat Atabaev (Tkm, 4); Sandipan Chanda (3.5) lost to SL Narayanan (4.5); Ayush Sharma (3.5) lost to Aravindh Chitambaram (4.5); Saparmyrat Atabaev (Tkm, 4.5) bt Rinat Jumabayev (Kaz, 3.5); V. Pranav (4) tied with Aditya Mittal (4); M. Shyam Sundar (4) tied with Arystanbek Urazaev (Kaz, 4); Koustav Chatterjee (4.5) bt Viani Antonio Dcunha (3.5).

Women: N Priyanka (4.5) lost to PV Nandhidhaa (5.5); Padmini Rout (4.5) bt Nilufar Yakubbaeva (4); Divya Deshmukh (4) tied with Soumya Swaminathan (4); Wo Thi Kim Fong (Wie, 4) tied with Mary Ann Gomez (4); Saina Salonika (3.5) tied with Tanya Sachdev (3.5); Altan-Ulziy Enkhtuul (Mgl, 3) lost to Thi Mai Hung Nguyen (Vie, 4); Amina Kayyrbekova (Kaz, 3.5) tied with Srishti Pandey (3.5); Rakshitta Ravi (4) bt V. Varshini (3); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (3.5) tied with Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel (Mgl, 3.5).

– Rakesh Rao

ATHLETICS

Parvei broke Gamanda’s 20-year-old national record

Bilaspur: Madhya Pradesh’s Parvej Khan broke Gamanda Ram’s 20-year-old Indian record by bettering his 800m personal best by more than three seconds at the Under-23 National Open Athletics Championships in Bilaspur on Monday.

The 17-year-old Services runner, who is also the reigning National Open 1500m champion, clocked 1:47.96 seconds (the previous U-20 record was 1:48.37 seconds) to make it a double victory. He completed a golden double in the 1500m on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh’s 19-year-old Animesh Kujur (200m) and Maharashtra’s Dhavel Uttekar, who moved from the high jump to the 400m hurdles, set personal bests.

Results (for gold medals only):

Men: 200 meters: Animesh Kujur (Thursday) 21.12. 800m: Parvej Khan (MP) 1:47.96. 5000m: Sunil Dawar (MP) 14:13.92s. 400 meters hurdles: P. Yashas (Snow) 50.89 seconds. High Jump: Kaustubha Jaiswal (MP) 2.13m.

Long jump: S. Arya (Snow) 7.56 m. Hammer throw: Nitesh Poonia (Raj) 64.75m. Javelin: Rishabh Nehra (High) 76.97m.

Women: 200m: Giridharani Ravikumar (TN) 24.80s. 800m: Mittal Chaudhry (Gudge) 2:12.79s. 5000m: Basanti Kumari (Jhd) 17:01.86s. 400m Hurdles: Pragyan Prasanth Sahu (Odi) 1:00.28s. Long Jump: PS Prabhavathi (Blind) 6.03m. Javelin throw: Karishma Sanil (Kar) 51.07m. Heptathlon: Tanushree (Raj) 4910 points.

Sunday Events:

Men: 100m: Pranav Gourav (Mah) 10.39s. 400m: Nitin Kumar (High) 47.04s. 1500m: Parvej Khan (MP) 3:51.79s. 110 meters hurdles: G. Nishant Raja (TN) 14.17s. 3000m steeplechase: Shubham Bhandare (Mah) 8:54.79s. Discus throw: Ikram Khan (MP) 51.62m. Shot put: Samardeep Gill (MP) 17.79m. 20,000m race walk: Sanjay Kumar (Raj) 1:27.13s. Decathlon: Mohit (6384 points).

Women: 100 m: T. Daneshwari (Snow) 11.63s. 400M: 1. Olimba Steffi (TN) 55.90s. 1500m: Nikita Sharma (HP) 4:29.52 seconds. 100m hurdles: Agasara Nandini (Tel) 13.73s. 3000m steeplechase: Bhagyashree Navale (Guj) 10:27.89s. High jump: Keweenaa Annawi (TN) 1.76m. Pole Vault: Pavitra Venkatesh (TN) 4.00m. Discus throw: M. Karunya (TN) 48.39 m. 20,000m race walk: Mansi Negi (Utkd) 1:40.01s.

– STAN RYAN