Saurabh Vij qualified for the final of the men's shot put at the World Junior Athletics Championship
All the Indians on view on the first day of World Junior Athletics Championship bowled out in the heats.
The world junior champion finished sixth following a draw with Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the ninth and final round of the Dos Hermanas International Chess tournament.
He was beaten by Andrei Volokitin in the first game of the two-game semi-final on Saturday.
The sixth seeded Indian from Uttarakhand, who had won a bronze medal in the last edition of the competition, notched up 21-19, 21-18 upset win over Vitidsarn in the summit clash that clocked 46 minutes.
'What will happen? Yes, nothing will happen. Athletics will develop, the guys will train. Well, they will miss maybe one tournament'
Sandeep Jangra and Parth Sharma lost in the third round.
GMs S S Ganguly and Harikrishna finished eighth and ninth respectively.
The world junior champion stunned the crowd by clocking a time of 44.93 seconds.
The World junior squash runner-up attributed her defeat in the final of the tournament to nervousness.
The top seeded Indian ace was beaten by Egypt's Raneem El Weleily in the final of the World Junior Squash Championships.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against top seed Alexander Motylev at the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters chess tournament
Both the girls teams booked their berth in the semi-finals of the World Junior Circuit Table Tennis championship.
Wayde van Niekerk retained his world 400 metres title in dominant fashion on Tuesday as he stormed to victory in 43.98 seconds but there was almost as much interest in the empty lane alongside him where Botswana's Isaac Makwala should have been.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Deep Sengupta lost to Zhao Jun of China after scoring upset wins over Grandmasters in earlier rounds.
16-year old Deep Sengupta shocked third seed Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev to move to second place with 7.5 points.
Harikrishna, Tigran Petrosian and Zhao Jun jointly lead the table with six points each after the seventh round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
The two players are leading the table with four points each after four rounds of the World Junior Chess championship.
India posted a comfortable 10-0 win over Bangladesh, while South Korea beat Chinese Taipei 8-2 in the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament.
They beat Japan 7-1 for their third straight victory in the tournament.
The penalty-corner ace starred in India's 17-1 rout of Sri Lanka in the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament.
The top seeded Indian was beaten by Basit Ashfaq of Pakistan in the fourth round in the World junior individual squash championship.
He was included in the Davis Cup team for the Asia Oceania Group 1 tie against New Zealand from February 6 to 8.
Top seed Shakriyaz Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan is well-placed to win the title in the World Jr chess championship.
Kadir Guseimov of Azerbaijan kept the top spot in the boys' section in the World Jr chess championships.
The signing follows the Hyderabad girl's decision last week to come out of the All India Tennis Association's sponsorship and pursue corporate patronage.
P Harikrishna leads by seven points after completion of eight rounds in the World Junior Chess championship.
After losing seven successive finals, PV Sindhu finally redeemed herself with the gold medal at the World Tour Finals.
The Indian team blanked Wales and Germany 3-0 to make the grade.
The 10-year old Tanya, captured the US Kids World Championship.
They beat Egypt in their second match on their tour of the country.
They lost to Tunisia 'A' in the final of the country's annual tournament.
The Indian ace will take on second seeded Raneem El Weleily of Egypt in the title match.
Azerbaijan Kadir Guseinov leads the boys' section in the World Juniors chess championship.
Marcin Dziuba of Poland, Leonid and Guseinov, all with 3.5 points apiece, shared the lead.
The Indian Grandmaster led the boys' field by 0.5 points after the third round in the World Junior chess championship.
The Indian GM beat Monroy Charles of France in the inaugural round of the World junior chess championship.
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