GOLF

PGTI Players Championship to start with 124 members

Defending champion Sachin Baisoya, Manu Gandas and Rahil Gangjee will likely be in motion on the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2024 introduced by Tollygunge Club right here from Tuesday.

The event, providing a prize purse of INR 1 crore, will mark the beginning of the 2024 TATA Steel PGTI season. The Pro-Am occasion will likely be performed on February 17.

The event will see participation of 124 gamers, together with 121 professionals and three amateurs.

Other prime gamers within the fray will likely be Khalin Joshi, Aman Raj, Karan Pratap Singh, Udayan Mane, Angad Cheema, Jairaj Singh Sandhu, Harshjeet Singh Sethie, Sunhit Bishnoi and Gaurav Pratap Singh, to call a couple of.

The distinguished international names competing are Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and Ok Prabagaran, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill and Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai.

Among the rookies collaborating within the occasion will likely be PGTI Qualifying School winner Matias Dominguez of Chile, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Italy’s Michele Ortolani, Czechia’s Stepan Danek, South Korea’s Si In Kim, American Dominic Piccirillo and Germany’s Wenzel Krzenck.

The Kolkata-based professionals within the discipline are Shankar Das, Divyanshu Bajaj, Mohammad Sanju, Indrajit Bhalotia, Karan Verma and Arjun Puri. The three Kolkata-based amateurs collaborating are Uzair Firdausi, Rohan Shroff and Sandeep Yadav.

- PTI

SHOOTING

India indicators off with out a medal from Rabat Shotgun World Cup

Ganemat Sekhon and Munek Battula completed twelfth within the last skeet blended group occasion on Monday as India ended its marketing campaign on the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Rabat, Morocco, with out a medal.

The duo shot a mixed rating of 140 after three qualification rounds every because the USA topped with 149.

A second Indian pair, Abhay Singh Sekhon and Areeba Khan shot 134 to take seventeenth place.

Italy was on the prime of the medal tally, sweeping all 4 golds on supply earlier than the skeet blended group last.

- PTI

PRO WRESTLING

Sangram Singh to face Pakistan’s Muhammad Saeed

Making his comeback after six years, former Commonwealth Heavyweight champion Sangram Singh will face Pakistan’s Muhammad Saeed in what would be the headline occasion of the International Pro Wrestling Championship on February 24 in Dubai.

The occasion carrying a prize purse of Rs 3-crore can have a lineup of 5 matches, together with the one that includes Sangram and Saeed.

“This sport of wrestling exemplifies gentlemanly conduct, and I aim to inspire the youth through this event keeping in mind the ideology of FIT India,” mentioned the 38-year-old who gained the Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship in 2015 and 2016.

“Competing against Muhammad Saeed, who is an elite athlete in his own right will be the perfect way to emphasize that age is no barrier and I look forward to a great fight to complete my anticipated comeback facilitated by World Professional Wrestling Hub.”

The different match ups function Ilias Bekbulatov (Russia), 2017 European Wrestling Champion vs Damon Kemp (USA); Andrea Carolina (Columbia), Olympian, vs Vescan Cynthia (France), Olympian; Bader Ali (UAE), Silver medallist, Arab Championship vs Mbo Isomi Aron (Congo), Gold Medalist, Games of La Francophonie; Mimi Hristova (Bulgaria), Olympian vs Skiba Monika.

- PTI