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India triumphs

NEW DELHI: India won the fifth USIC World Railways badminton championship, beating Russia and Poland in its super league matches at the Siri Fort indoor stadium here on Thursday.

Expectedly, the India-Russia contest in the morning session turned out to be the decisive battle in the championship race in the three-team pool `A'. The home team won 7-4 over the defending champion to all but make sure of the championship. The 11-0 rout of Poland in the afternoon session that sealed the title, turned out to be a mere formality.

The Russia-Poland tie on the final day on Friday will decide the silver winner.

The results:

Super league:

India bt Russia 7-4 (Arup Baidya and Barnali Raha bt Alexy Vasiliev and Anna Efremova 15-8, 13-15, 15-12; Mangrish Palekar and Anita Ohlan lost to Stanislav Pukhov and Evgenia Dimova 2-15, 8-15; Mayank Behal bt Anton Chalepa 13-15, 15-9, 15-10; Hemant Duggal bt Sergey Lunev 10-15, 15-5, 15-10; Sachin Ratti lost to Pukhov 9-15, 1-15; Baidya bt Sergey Prusatchenko 15-4, 15-2; Dhanya Nair lost to Dimova 2-11, 10-13; Anita Ohlan bt Kim Marina 11-9, 11-4; Ratti and Palekar lost to Vasiliev and Lunev 15-17, 6-15; Duggal and Behal bt Chalepa and Prusatchenko 15-10, 15-7; Dhanya and Barnali bt Marina and Efremova 15-6, 15-11).

India bt Poland 11-0 (Baidya and Barnali bt Mila Lukasz and Agata Dorozkiewwicz 15-4, 15-5; Palekar and Anita bt Lech Dryzalowski and Patrycja Leik 15-1, 15-1; Ratti bt Krzysztof Galecki 15-2, 15-2; Duggal bt Marcin Kaniowski 15-2, 15-2; Baidya bt Dryzalowski 15-6, 15-3; Behal bt Michal Brzozowski 15-3, 15-6; Dhanya bt Leik 11-0, 11-1; Anita bt Agnieszka Jaskula 11-7, 11-2; Ratti and Palekar bt Kaniowski and Mila Lukasz 15-11, 15-3; Duggal and Behal bt

Galecki and Brzozowski 15-4, 15-4; Dhanya and Barnali bt Agata and Agnieszka

15-9, 15-11).

Germany bt Switzerland 9-2; Netherlands bt Britain 6-5; Belgium bt Czech Republic 11-0; Netherlands bt Denmark 6-5.

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