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Indians flop again

NEW DELHI: Indian competitors continued to be among also-rans in most of the events on the fourth day of the World University Games in Bangkok on Sunday.

In what is turning out to be an embarrassment for a 50-odd contingent, Indians occupied the lowest positions in a majority of the events in Sunday’s competitions.

The exceptions were Amit Kumar (563) who finished eighth among 28 shooters in the men’s standard pistol event and junior World champion Navnath Fartade (587), who took the 20th position among 63 competitors in the men’s air rifle event.

Amanpreet Singh (551) and Zakir Khan (535) joined Amit Kumar for India’s fifth-place finish in the team championship in standard pistol event with 1649 points while Tejas Kusale (574-54th ) and Ravi Kumar Jatav (570-58th) contributed to the Indian team’s 13th position in the air rifle event with 1731 points.

In men’s trap, Prithviraj Tondaiman (85/100) ended up 22nd while Sidhartha Pawar (78) finished 26th. In skeet Allan Peoples (91/100) finished 18th while Man Singh (87) and Sobrab Gill (84) were 23rd and 30th and last.

In swimming, Rehan Poncha finished seventh and last in his heat of the men’s 400m freestyle in 4:10.02. Seventeen swimmers in three other heats put together broke four minutes with American Michael Patrick clocking 3:49.59, the fastest among the qualifiers for the final. In the men’s 100m butterfly heats Tarun Tokas was sixth with a time of 1: 02.55. In the slowest heat in women’s 200m freestyle, Prajakta Khangan (2:24.69) and Rajni Tokas (2:39.00) finished first and third in a three-woman field.

In athletics, Monica Joon ended up 14th among 16 starters in the women’s discus final with 41.03 metres. Cuban Yarelys Barrios Castaneda won the gold with 61.36m.

In tennis, Ankita Bhambri bowed out of the women’s singles, losing her third-round match to Chinese Taipei’s Chan Chin-Wei, the No. 2 seed, at 2-6, 2-6 on Sunday.

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