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Indians corner glory at Asian Youth

Indians bag 21 medals
Six of them gold

NEW DELHI: Indian boys and girls won 21 medals, including six gold medals, to top the medals tally in the Asian Youth chess championship that concluded in Teheran on Monday.

Out of the 36 medals, spread over 12 categories, India made a clean sweep of medals in the boys’ under-12 and girls’ under-10 sections. Significantly, India won at least a medal in every category.

In all, India bagged six gold, five silver and 10 bronze medals to finish way ahead of host Iran that collected three gold and as many silver medals. Vietnam, Kazakhstan and United Arab Emirates shared the remaining three gold medals.

The Indian medal winners:

Gold (6): Prasanna Rao (boys U-14), Girish Koushik (boys U-12), Diptayan Ghosh (boys U-10), P. Uthra (girls U-18), Padmini Rout (girls U-14) and M. Mahalakshmi (girls U-10).

Silver (5): B. Adhiban (boys U-16), Vidit Gujarati (boys U-14), Sonakshi Rathore (girls U-12), Ivana Furtado (girls U-10) and Tejaswini Sagar (girls U-8).

Bronze (10): Debashis Das (boys U-18), Ankit Rajpara (boys U-14), Shardul Gagare (boys U-12), Sidhant Mahapatra (boys U-10), Y. Grahesh (boys U-8), R. Preethi (girls U-18), Bhakti Kulkarni (girls U-16), Priyanka Kumari (girls U-14), Pratyusha Bodda (girls U-12) and G. K. Monnisha (girls U-10).

Final results (involving Indians):

Boys U-8 (seventh round): Adrash Srivastava (3.5) lost to Arya Omidi (Iri, 6); Munirjon Sharipov (Tjk, 3.5) lost to Y. Grahesh (5).

Boys U-10 (ninth round): Sidhant Mahapatra (7.5) bt Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tri (Vie, 5.5); Diptayan Ghosh (7.5) bt Koosha Jafferian (Iri, 4.5); Alikhan Irgaliyev (Kaz, 4) lost to C. H. Mohineesh (6).

Boys U-12 (ninth round): Girish Koushik (7.5) drew with Tran Tuan Minh (Vie, 6); Shardul Gagare (6) drew with Oleg Artemenko (Uzb, 4.5); Alihan Guseynov (Uzb, 5) drew with Shiven Khosla (5.5); Amir Kowsarinia (Iri, 4.5) lost to Praveen Kumar (6); Sayantan Das (6) bt Zhokhar Zhanbai (Kgz, 4).

Boys U-14 (ninth round): Vidit Gujarati (7.5) bt Johangir Vakhidov (Uzb, 5); Prasanna Rao (7.5) bt Pouya Oliazadeh (Iri, 4); Ankit Rajpara (6.5) bt Mehdi Hosseinipour (Iri, 4.5); Fenil Shah (5) bt Pranav Shetty (4).

Boys U-16 (ninth round): Ikrom Ilhomzade (Tjk, 6.5) drew with S. Nitin (5); B. Adhiban (6.5) bt Rahmatjon Rahimov (Uzb, 5); S. P. Sethuraman (6) bt K. Kottahachchy (Sri, 4); Shyam Sundar (6) bt Assylkhan Karayev (Kaz, 4); K. Priyadarshan (4) lost to Antonio Viani D’cunha (3.5).

Boys U-18 (seventh round): Arslan Otichiyev (Tkm, 4) bt Saravana Krishnan (4); Debasis Das (4.5) bt Shahin Sadeh (Iri, 3.5); Adhulwahab Marwan (UAE, 1.5) drew with Pradeep Kumar (1.5).

Girls U-8 (seventh round): Mouza Al Mansouri (UAE, 4) lost to Tejaswini Sagar (6); Riya Savant (4) lost to Vu Thi Dieu Uyen (Vie, 5).

Girls U-10 (ninth round): M. Mahalakshmi (8) drew with Dorsa Derakhshani (Iri, 5.5); Vu Thi Dieu Al (Vie, 5) drew with Sweety Patel (6); Ivana Furtado (6.5) bt Mohadeseh Alijanzadeh (Iri, 4.5); G. K. Monnisha (6) bt Diana Omurbekova (Kgz, 4.5); Shoumi Mukherjee (5.5) bt Nirmanie Tharusha (Sri, 4.5).

Girls U-12 (ninth round): Sonakshi Rathore (7) drew with Kimia Moradi (Iri, 5); Pratyusha Bodda (7) bt Nadia Bagheri Taleghani (Iri, 4); P. V. Nandhidhaa (5) bt Yenglik Zhaksybek (Kaz, 4); Zadjali Reem (UAE, 1) lost to M. Navya Vaishnavi (4.5).

Girls U-14 (seventh round): Padmini Rout (5.5) bt Minoo Asgarizadeh (Iri, 4); Mohana Priya (4.5) lost to Sarvinoz Qurbonboyeva (Uzb, 5); Priyanka Kumari (4.5) bt Nguyen Thao Han (Vie, 3); Zhanna Karabayeva (Kaz, 3) bt N. Anusha (3).

Girls U-16 (ninth round): Shalmali Gagare (5) lost to Korlan Rysbayeva (Kaz, 5.5); Bhakti Kulkarni (6) bt Asila Muhtojzoda (Tjk, 4); Alina Esenbaeva (Kgz, 3.5) lost to Pon N. Krithika (6); Mahdieh Ataei (Iri, 2.5) lost to A. Niji (5).

Girls U-18: Tatyana Shalukhina (Kaz, 3.5) drew with P. Uthra (5.5); Nafisa Muminova (Uzb, 5) bt K. Manasa (3.5); Golnaz Jafari (Iri, 3.5) lost to R. Preethi (5).

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