Anu Kumar wins gold in junior Asian meet

Gifu (Japan)

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Anu Kumar claimed the gold in the men’s 800m and Arpandeep Kaur Bajwa grabbed the bronze medal in the women’s discus throw as India added three more medals to its tally on the third day of the Junior Asian Athletics Championships. With one day to go, Indian athletes have already won three gold, one silver and nine bronze medals at the event. India won their third gold of the competition through Uttarakhand-based runner Anu, who clocked 1:54.11s to finish ahead of Iran’s Abdolrahim Dorzadeh (1:54.23s). India’s 4x100m relay team of Gurindervir Singh, Prajwal Mandanna Kakera Ravi, Akash Kumar and Nitin Balakumar clocked 40.75s to win the bronze medal. In the 100m event, Gurindervir clocked 11.09s to crash out in the heats. Amritsar girl Arpandeep Kaur threw the iron disc to a distance of 46.57m to take the bronze.

Eugene (US)

Tejaswin wins American Inter-University title

Tejaswin Shankar, who has decided to skip the Asian Games citing a strained neck, won the gold in the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Track and Field Championships. The 19-year-old Delhi athlete, who holds the national record of 2.28m, cleared 2.24m to win the American Inter-University title. He became only the third Indian to win the NCAA title after Mohinder Singh Gill, who won five titles from 1969 to 1971 in triple jump, and discus thrower Vikas Gowda (2006).  Shankar, who was representing Kansas State University, was the fifth freshman to win the national championship in high jump.

SAO PAULO

Brazilian tennis great Bueno dies aged 78

Maria Bueno, the Brazilian tennis great who won seven Grand Slam titles in the 1950s and 1960s, has died after being treated for cancer at a Sao Paulo hospital. She was 78. The elegant Bueno, South America’s most successful player, shot to global fame when she claimed her maiden Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 1959 and her second at the US Nationals two months later. She successfully defended her Wimbledon crown the following year and claimed back-to-back US Nationals titles in 1963-64. She also reached the final of the 1964 French Championships and the 1965 Australian Championships but lost to Margaret Court at Roland Garros and retired hurt against the Australian great at Kooyong.

Port of Spain

West Indies stretch lead over Sri Lanka past 400

Kieran Powell missed out on a century but the West Indies further solidified an already dominant position at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Trinidad. West Indies reached  209/7 in their second innings. The hosts, who declined to enforce the follow-on despite a 229-run first-innings lead, now have an overall advantage of 438 runs with three wickets in hand.— Agencies