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ATHLETICS

13TH WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONS

At the 13th World Athletics Championships in Daegu,

South Korea, USA won gold in three events out of

the total six events held on 1 September 2011.

Lashinda Demus in the 400 metres hurdles, 1,500

metres runner Jenny Simpson and high jumper Jesse

Williams won the gold medals and lifted the United

States to the top of the medals table. Simpsons

winning time of four minutes 05.40 seconds was

however the slowest to win a world title.Demus ran

52.47 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles, beating

defending champion Melaine Walker of Jamaica into

silver with Russian Natalya Antyukh bronze. Williamscompleted a hat-trick of golds for the United States

when he won the mens high jump with his first

attempt at 2.35 metres, the first U.S. gold in the event

in 20 years.

WOMENS 20KMWALK TITLE

In the 13th World Championships in Athletics that

started in Daegu, South Korea, olympic champion

Olga Kaniskina won her third consecutive World

womens 20km walk title on 31 August 2011. The

Russian completed the race in 1hr 29min 42sec, 18sec

ahead of her nearest rival, Chinas Liu Hong. Liu

Hong won silver and Anisya Kirdyapkina of Russia

won bronze (1:30.13). Silver medallist Liu had won

bronze in Berlin (2009 worldchampionship).

Kaniskinas three consecutive world titles matched the

feat of Jefferson Perez of Ecuador, who won the mens

20km titles in 2003, 2005 and 2007.

110M HURDLE

In the 13th World Championships in Athletics that

started in Daegu, South Korea on 27 August 2011,

Jason Richardson (USA) won gold in the 110m hurdle

on 29 August. Liu Xiang of China and Andrew Turner

won silver and bronxe respectively. Olympic

champion Dayron Robles was disqualified for pulling

rival Liu Xiang in the 110-meter hurdles on 29 August

2011 therby handing victory in one of the most

anticipated races of the world championships to

American outsider Jason Richardson.Pawel

Wojciechowski of Poland won gold in the pole vault

event. Lazaro Borges of Cuba and Renaud Lavillenie

of France was placed second and third. While inHammer throw Koji Murofushi of Japan won gold.

He was followed by Krisztian Pars (silver) of Hungary

and Primoz Kozmus (bronze). In the Womens 100m,

Carmelita Jeter (USA) won the gold. Veronica

Campbell-Brown and Kelly-Ann Baptiste won the

siver and bronze medals respectively. In the 400m

event of the womens category, Amantle Montsho was

palced first followed by Allyson Felix and Anastasiya

Kapachinskaya. While in shot put New Zealands

Valerie Adams won gold. Nadzeya Ostapchuk and

Jillian Camarena-Williams won silver and gold

respectively.MENS MARATHON TITLE

Kenyan runner Abel Kirui retained his world title in

the mens marathon here Sunday after finishing the

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42.195-kilometer race in two hours, seven minutes and

38 seconds. His fellow Kenyan Vincent Kipruto, a

newcomer to the world championships, crossed the

line second 2:28 minutes behind, which is the biggest

margin in the World Championships history.

Ethiopias debutant Feyisa Lilesa, losing the silver

medal battle in the final 1km, prevented a Kenyan

medal sweep by taking the bronze medal in 2:10:32.

The first final in Daegu last Saturday had seen the

Kenyan women making the first ever marathon medal

sweep in the Champion-ships history. Kirui pulled

away early from a leading pack of three Kenyans and

one Ethiopian after the halfway mark and ran all the

way alone to finish home with his seasonal best time.

Kipruto, the worlds third fastest man this year, who

clocked 2:05:33 when finishing runner up at the

Rotterdam Marathon in April, said he was happy to

secure a 1-2 finish for Kenya.With the two medals,

Kenya has temporarily moved to the second place in

the tally with 16 medals in total while their previous

best in the championships was 13 in Osaka 2007.

800M

David Rudisha of Kenya took the gold medal in the

mens 800m race clocking 1min 43.91sec at the World

Athletics Championships here Tuesday. Abubaker

Kaki of Sudan took the silver clocking 1:44.41.Russias Yuriy Borzakovskiy collected the bronze for

his effort of 1:44.49, Xinhua reported. Rudisha, 22,

is already a big name in the mens 800m. He set the

current world record of 1:41.01 in the Italian city of

Rieti last August.With the victory, he added another

gold medal for the African nation which swept all the

six medals on the opening day of the Championships.

PORTLAND ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET

Ace Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia won the

Gold medal on 14 August 2011 in the Annual Athletic

Meet at Portland in the United States. Taking part inthe first competition of her training stint in the USA,

she hurled the discus to 58.88 metres to bag the yellow

metal.

VOLLEYBALL

FIVB WORLD JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL TITLE

Russia defeated top-ranked Argentina 25-19, 23-25,

21-25, 25-18, 15-12 to win the FIVB World junior

volleyball title in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 11 August

2011. It was the second-seeded Russias eighth title

in the under-21 event. Russias Leonid Shchadilov,

the championships best spiker, was adjudged as the

most valuable player and his teammates Igor Filippov

(best blocker) and Aleksey Kabeshov (best libero)

won special prizes for their performance in the

tournament.Serbia on the other hand defeated the USA

25-15, 25-20, 23-25, 25-13 and won the bronzemedal.

CHESS

SUNITA SINGH MEMORIAL NATIONAL YOUTH

CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Top-seeded International Master Rahul Sangma of

Delhi won the Sunita Singh Memorial National youth

(under-25) chess championship at Indore on 27

August 2011. The championship was a 50-player

event. Sangma scored a final round victory with black

over Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Andhra to reach sevenpoints. Sriram Sarja of Karnataka defeated second

seed C.R.G. Krishna to tie for the first place. Of the

two undefeated players, Sangmas Buchholz tie-break

count was higher and he was declared winner. Sriram

gained about 10 Elo for finishing second. Sangma

picked up Rs. 20000 from the prize fund of Rs.

75000.The event was organised by S.K.M. Chess

Academy and J.J. Public School, Indore, from 21 to

27. August 2011. Pranesh Yadav of Shivamogga,

Karnataka was the chief arbiter.

FOOTBALL

BAICHUNG BHUTIA RETIRES

Veteran Indian footballer Baichung Bhutia announced

his retirement from international soccer on 24 August



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2011. He however will continue to play for his club

that he is currently associated with, Sikkim United.

The decision to retire was prompted by constant

injuries in the past year. He was picked for the

upcoming tour of England.

However calf-muscle injury caused him to retire.

Baichung Bhutia made his debut as a substitute in the

1995 Nehru Cup in Calcutta. In his career spread over

16 years he scored 42 goals in 107 international

appearances. Nicknamed the Sikkimese Sniper, he is

currently contracted by the club he owns, United

Sikkim. He has thrice in the past been named Indian

Player of the Year.

Bhutia had four spells at I-League football team EastBengal Club, the club where he started his career.

When he signed up to play for the English club Bury

F.C. in 1999 he became the first Indian footballer to

play professional football in Europe. He played for

JCT Mills, which won the league once during his

tenure as well as Mohun Bagan, which failed to win

the league once during his two spells, in his native

India. His international footballing honours include

winning the Nehru Cup, LG Cup, South Asian

Football Federation (SAFF) Championship (three

times) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)

Challenge Cup.

He is also Indias most capped player, and in the 2009

Nehru Cup he received his 100th international cap.

He has a stadium named after him- Baichung Stadium

in Namchi, the district headquarters of South Sikkim

district in the state of Sikkim, India. He was honoured

with the Arjuna award in 1995 and Padma Shri in

2008.

TENNIS

CINCINNATI MASTERS

World No. 4 Andy Murray won the ATPs Cincinnati

Masters title for the second time after defeating WorldNo. 1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 3-0. Murray made the

most of Djokovics sluggish start, opening the match

with a service break. Murray had won the Cincinnati

Masters title last in 2008. Djokovic who was hindered

during the match by a sore right shoulder conceded

just his second defeat of 2011 against 57 victories.

Fourth-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova defeated

Serbias Jelena Jankovic to win the womens title.

With the victory Sharapova earned her second title

of 2011 after a triumph in Rome.

In the doubles final, Leander Paes and Mahesh

Bhupathi won their third title of 2011 and first at

Cincinnati after 10 years, following a hard-fought win

over French-Serbian combination Michael Llodra and

Nenad Zimonjic.

The third seeds edged past the fourth-seeded French-

Serbian combination 7-6(4), 7-6(2) after battling for

one hour and 41 minutes. This is the third title of the

season for the Indian Express as they are referred.

They had earlier won titles at the Sony Ericsson Open

and Chennai Open.

MONTREAL MASTERS

Novak Djokovic defeated American Mardy Fish 6-2,

3-6, 6-4 to win the Montreal Masters on 14 August

2011 thereby winning his ninth ATP title of 2011.

Djokovic became the first man to win five Masters

1000 titles in the same season having also claimed

trophies at Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Rome.

He stands a phenomenal 53-1 in 2011, with his onlyloss coming against Roger Federer in the French Open

semi-finals. The win also made him the first to capture

an ATP tournament on debut as number one since Pete

Sampras in 1993.

ATP WASHINGTON CLASSIC

Radek Stepanek on 7 August 2011 defeated Gael

Monfils of France 6-4, 6-4 to win the ATP

(Association of Tennis Professionals) Washington

Classic. With this win, Stepanek became the ATPs

oldest champion since Frances Fabrice Santoro at 35,

won at Newport in 2008.Radak is 32 years old and

from Czech Republic. He also became the oldest

winner of the ATP Washington Classic since Jimmy

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CRICKET

INDIA SLIPPEDTO NO 3 POSITIONIN

TEST RANKINGS

England under the captaincy of Andrew Strauss

defeated India 4-0 in the test series that concluded in

Oval on 22 August 2011. The hosts won the last Test

at oval by an innings and 8 runs. Team India, after

following on in the fourth and last Test was bundled

out at 283 on the final day of the match. Swann the

most successful English bowler took 6 wickets in the

final test. Broad took 2 wickets while Anderson and

Bresnan took 1 wicket each. England bowler Stuart

Broad was named man of the series for his side.Seamer Broad excelled with the ball, taking a total

of 25 wickets across the four Tests. He was also

brilliant with the bat scoring unbeaten 74 in the first

Test at Lords to set an imposing target for India. In

the second Test Broad scored a total of 110 in two

spells at the crease to help England to a 319-run

victory. Indias man of the series was named as Rahul

Dravid, who averaged 76.83 in his eight innings of

the series, his three centuries were the only hundreds

scored by Indians

With this emphatic victory, England officially

crowned themselves the number one team in Testrankings with 125 points followed by South Africa

with 118 points. The Indians, who started the series

as the number one Test team, surrendered the number

one tag after losing the third Test in Birmingham and

later slipped to the number three position following

the 4-0 defeat.Indias World Cup victory was preceded

by a tour of South Africa and less than a week after

winning the World Cup in Mumbai, Dhoni and his

men played in the Indian Premier League (IPL). A tour

of the West Indies followed and by the time they

landed in England, most of the players were either

jaded or injured.

RAHUL DRAVID-SECOND HIGHEST SCORERIN

TEST CRICKET ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT

Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announced his

retirement from both the versions of the game- Test

and ODI. His announced his retirement after he was

chosen for the ODI and T20 series in England. He

was recalled to the Indian squad for the one-off

Twenty20 and five match One-Day International

series against England two years since his last

appearance in an ODI. Dravid decided to play in the

five-match ODI series against England beginning on

3 September 2011 and the one-off T20 match on 31

August 2011 before retiring.Dravid had last played

an ODI match against the West Indies during the 2009

Champions Trophy in Johannesburg, South Africa. He

became the second highest run-getter in Test cricket-

12576 runs from 155 matches during the India-

England test series. Dravid also equalled Sunil

Gavaskars record of 34 Test tons during the ongoing

Test series against England. Dravid has to his credit

over 10000 runs in both the Test and ODI cricket, with

10765 runs in 339 one-dayers which is the seventh

highest scorer in that format. Dravid has made 10765

runs in 339 ODIs with an average of 39.43 with 12

hundreds and 82 fifties.

ENGLAND BEAT INDIABY SIX WICKETSIN

TWENTY20

England beat India by six wickets in their Twenty20

international match at the Old Trafford here

Wednesday. Mahendra Singh Dhoni had won the tossand opted to bat first. Opener Ajinkya Rahane scored

61 from 39 balls for India to power his team towards

a total of 165. England scored 169 for 4 (Morgan 49).

Needing 10 from the final over from Vinay Kumar,

Samit Patel squeezed a pair of fours, and then sealed

the match with a lofted drive over extra cover with

three balls of the contest remaining.

India: Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Dravid,

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Mahendra

Singh Dhoni (captain/wicketkeeper), Praveen Kumar,

Ravichandran Ashwin, R. Vinay Kumar and Munaf

Patel. England: Alex Hales, Craig Kieswetter(wicketkeeper), Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan, Ravi

Bopara, Samit Patel, Jos Buttler, Tim Bresnan, Stuart

Broad (captain), Graeme Swann and Jade Dernbach.



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MAHARASHTRA LIFT BUCHI BABU TROPHY

Maharashtra snatched a thrilling two-wicket victoryagainst Kerala in the final to lift the All-India Buchi

Babu cricket tournament trophy here Tuesday.

Chasing a target of 320 in 90 overs, openers Ashok

Khadiwale (55, 87b, 54, 16) and Chirag Khurana

(82, 133b, 84) provided Maharashtra a sound start

while Rohit Motwani (46, 87b, 14) and Ankit

Bhawne (59, 75b, 44, 16) added 75 for the fourth

wicket to have Kerala on the ropes. However, a flurry

of wickets reduced Maharashtra from 300 for four to

307 for eight before Ajinkya Joshi (13 not out) and

Dominic Joseph Muthusamy (6 not out) guided their

team home amidst mounting tension.For Kerala, off-spinner K.R. Sreejith picked up five wickets, but bled

runs and his effort eventually went in vain as

Maharashtra coasted home with 3.2 overs to spare.

FOOTBALL

INDIAS UNDER-16 FOOTBALL TEAM DEFEATED

BY PAKISTANIN SAFF CHAMPIONSHIP

Indias under-16 football team coached by India coach

Thomas Joseph was defeated by Pakistan 1-2 in the

title clash of the SAFF Championship on 10 August

2011. Mohammed Zaseen put Pakistan ahead whenhe found the back of the net in the 25th minute. India

drew level through Daniel Lalhlimpuias strike at the

stroke of half-time. Lalhlimpuia restored parity

scoring off a goal-mouth melee as both teams went

to the breather with the scoreline reading 1-1.

However, Pakistan took the lead again when

Mohammed Mansoor scored early in the second half,

a strike which eventually decided the fate of the

match.Indian was shocked as Mansoor sealed the deal

for Pakistan off a corner four minutes from the change

of ends. From there on India desperately looked for

an equaliser, but Pakistans defence stood tall.MESSIIN KOLKATA

Football magician Lionel Messi arrived in Kolkata on

31st of August amid stringent security for Fridays first

ever FIFA official international friendly in the Indian

sub-continent featuring Argentina and Venezuela.

However, the large number of people, who were

waiting for hours at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

International Airport to welcome the Argentine

superstar, were left heartbroken as the organisers

packed him into a vehicle from the tarmac and drove

him out of the airport through a sidegate.Messi was

accompanied by his Barcelona FC teammate Javier

Mascherano. The duo reached the eastern Indian

metropolis after playing the clubs La Liga game with

Villareal Monday. Messi scored twice in the second

half as Barca cantered to a 5-0 victory.

SPAIN WONTHE TENTH EDITIONOFTHE UEFAEUROPEAN UNDER-19 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE

Spain won the tenth edition of the UEFA European

Under-19 Championship title in Romania beating the

Czech Republic 3-2 on 1 August 2011. Spain become

the first country to hold both u-19 and u-21 title in

the same year. Spain which is European and World

champion at senior level defeated Switzerland 2-0 in

the under-21 final on 25 June 2011. Paco Alccer who

came off the bench to score twice in the final 12

minutes played a significant role in helping Spain

attain the title.Spain was Champion in European

Under-19 Championship in the years 2002, 2004,2006 and 2007. The victory achieved on 1 August

marked the fourth for their coach, the irrepressible

Gins Melndez.

GOLF

INDIAN GOLF TEAM WON BRONZE

An amateur Indian golf team won bronze in a team

event at the 48-year old Nomura Cup in Fiji on 19

August 2011. The competition witnessed participation

by teams from 18 countries. The Indians edged past

golf power-house and defending champions Korea byfive strokes for the third place on the final day. They

finished at a four-day total of 865, and 5-under on

the final day. Indias Khalin Joshi, who also finished

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his team with a 4-under 68 as teammates Faldo Series

Asian champion Abhijeet Chaddha, reigning All-India

winner S Chikkaran-gappa and Angad Cheema shot

average scores. The best of three scores were counted

every day for the team total. The victory at Fiji came

a fortnight after Indian golfers bagged silver at the

Asia-Pacific Junior Championships. Australia and

New Zealand won gold and silver.

SNOOKER

NATIONAL SNOOKER TITLE

Aditya Mehta claimed his maiden National snooker

title by defeating Alok Kumar 6-2 (66-6, 29-69, 72-

65, 67-41, 67-10, 74-58, 43-52, 82-5) in the best-of-

eleven frame final at the Hash10 World Sim

championships on 9 August 2011. Successive breaks

of 24, 14 and 21 gave Aditya Mehta the first frame

but Alok Kumar soon levelled the frame-score with a

69-29 verdict in the second. Leading 51-16 in the

third, Alok Kumars slightly heavy touch on the cue

ball directed it into one of the pockets after having

potted a colour (he later admitted to his touch being

either too heavy or too light all match) to let Mehta

back into the frame again.Alok Kumar is a 13-time

National champion.

VARIOUS

SIX CITIES BIDFOR 2020 OLYMPICS

Six cities have officially lodged bids to host the 2020

Olympic Games, the International Olympic

Committee (IOC) said Friday. The cities that have

shown interest are Baku, Doha, Istanbul, Madrid,

Rome and Tokyo. The deadline for bidding was at

midnight Thursday. The IOC will vote on the host city

for the 2020 edition on Sep 7, 2013 in Buenos Aires,

Argentina.The cities will now undergo a technical

review leading to the IOC drawing up a shortlist inMay next year, the Xinhua reported. In January 2013,

the candidate cities should submit bid documents to

the IOC which will then send its evaluation committee

to each city between February and April 2013 to

assess their respective merits.The 2012 Olympics will

be staged in London and the 2016 edition in Rio de

Janeiro.

INDIAN COURTOF ARBITRATIONFOR SPORTSTO

SETTLE SPORTS DISPUTE

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) set up an eight

member Indian Court of Arbitration for Sports

(ICAS). ICAS was set up under the Chairmanship of

Dr. AR. Lakshmanan, former Supreme Court Judge

and former Law Commission chairman to resolve all

sports related disputes in India. The other Members

of ICAS include M.R. Culla and retired judges,

Justices R.S. Sodhi, B.A. Khan, Usha Mehra,

Lokeshwar Prasad and S.N. Sapra.All sports related

disputes in the whole world are settled by the

International Court of Arbitration for Sports situated

at Lausanne, Switzerland through a panel of eminent

experts in the field of law, medicine, sports and others.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had

given directions to the IOA to constitute the Indian

court of Arbitration for Sports in order to resolve all

sports related disputes within the territory of India.

All disputes in relation to sports under the Indian

Olympic Association will therefore be decided by the

Indian Court of Arbitration for Sports.

CABINET REJECTS PROPOSED SPORTS BILL

The union cabinet Tuesday rejected the proposed

National Sports Development Bill aimed at bringing

more transparency and accountability in the

functioning of the National Sports Federations (NSF),

saying the legislation needs to be reworked. The

cabinet decided not to table the bill in this session of

parliament and asked Sports Minister Ajay Maken to

rework it. At the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime

Minister Manmohan Singh, five cabinet ministers

were present Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, C.P. Joshi,

Farooq Abdullah and Vilasrao Deshmukh. Under thecurrent version of the bill, all sports federations would

have been covered by the Right to Information (RTI)

Act and would need to submit their audited reports

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the Board of Control of Cricket India a public

organisation like other sports federations and bringing

it under the purview of the RTI. The sports ministrys

move to include the BCCI in the bill drew support

from most of the former Indian cricketers earlier in

the day.

Former India captain Kapil Dev, who led the team to

1983 World Cup win, acknowledged the good work

done by the BCCI but said it should work with the

government. It is a vast issue and we cant talk about

it off-hand but in my opinion every organisation

should come under a uniform system. At the same

time, BCCI is doing well as a private organisation and

we should respect that. But at the end of the day,

everything should come under the government, Kapil

said on the sidelines of a seminar of the Confederation

of Indian Industries (CII) here Tuesday. Another

former captain, Mohammad Azharuddin, now a

Congress MP, hoped the bill will improve sports in

the country. BCCI has done a good job in running

the sport but nobody is above the law. When a

government passes a law, you cant look at one

individual or one body. And if they are going to come

out with a bill covering sports bodies, I dont see

anything wrong in that, he said.On BCCI coming

under the RTI, Jadeja added: There is nothing wrong

if they fall under the RTI. But you have to leave out

key things like players selection away from public

scrutiny.



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