June 13: Indian sports news wrap of the day

June 13 daily sports wrap: Here are all the major developments from Indian sports today.

Gurunaidu Sanapathi has become India's first weightlifter to win a gold at the IWF Youth World Championships in Leon, Mexico.(Representative Image)

WEIGHTLIFTING

Gurunaidu Sanapathi becomes first Indian to win Youth World Championship gold

Gurunaidu Sanapathi has become India's first weightlifter to win a gold at the IWF Youth World Championships in Leon, Mexico.

The 16-year-old claimed the yellow metal with a total effort of 230kg (104kg+126kg) in the boy's 55kg event late on Sunday night.

While Sanapathi, the 2020 Asian Youth Weightlifitng Championships bronze medallist, stood on top of the podium, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ali Majeed 229kg (105kg+124kg) came in second and Yerassyl Umrov of Kazakhstan 224kg (100kg+124kg) third.

Besides Sanapathi, compatriot Soumya S. Dalvi bagged the bronze in her event on the second day of competitions.

Maharashtra's Dalvi, a two-time Khelo India Youth gold medallist, heaved 148kg (65kg+83kg) to claim the third spot in the 45kg girl's event behind Rose J Ramos of Philipines 155kg (70kg+85kg) and Venezuela Kerlys M. Montilla 153kg (71kg+82kg).

The other Indian in the fray, R Bhavani finished eighth with a best effort of 132kg(57kg+75kg).

India's tally at the world event now stands at four medals.

On the opening day of competition, Akansha Kishor Vyavhare and Vijay Prajapati had won silver medals in their respective events.

India had not participated in the previous edition of the tournament which was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia last year.

- PTI

TENNIS

Indian teams make a winning start in South Asia under-12 tennis tournament

The Indian boys and girls teams outplayed Bhutan without dropping a single game in the opening league matches of the ITF South Asian under-12 tennis tournament in Kathmandu on Monday.

The boys team has been clubbed with Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan in group ‘B’, while the girls team finds itself with Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan in the round robin format.

 

BOPANNA AND SANIA SECURES WINS

Rohan Bopanna in partnership with Denis Shapovalov beat Pedro Martinez and Diego Schwartzman 7-6(6), 6-4 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the € 2,275,275 ATP tennis tournament in London on Monday.

In the WTA event in Birmingham, Sania Mirza, seeded third with Lucie Hradecka, beat the British pair of Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls 7-5, 6-2 in the pre-quarterfinals.

The results:

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