November 2012

MACAU OPEN

Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar on 14 October 2012 fired a three-under 68 to complete a start to-finish win in the Venetian Macau Open Golf. Gaganjeet Bhullar finished with 16-under 268 for a two-shot win and bag his second title on Asian Tour within a month.

With this he took over his fourth title of his career, keeping aside the inaugural Gujarat Challenge Tour win in 2011. American Jonathan Moore finished two shots back in second place after a 65 and Thai youngster Thitiphun Chuayprakong closed with a 70 to share third place with Bangladeshi Siddikur (66).

ABOUT MACAU OPEN

The Macau Open is a men’s professional golf tournament on the Asian Tour which take place in Macau ever year. It was founded in 1998. The venue is the Macau Golf & Country Club at Coloane. The best known golfer who won the tournament is eight-time European Tour Order of Merit champion Colin Montgomerie.

IJM LAND PENANG OPEN SQUASH TITLE 2012

Joshna Chinappa, one of the top squash players of India claimed the IJM Land Penang Open after defeating top most squash player Siti Munirah Jusoh of Malaysia in straight games on 30 October 2012. Joshna Chinappa defeated her Malaysian opponent Siti Munirah Jusoh with 11-9 11-7 11-1 in a 34-minute match between them at the Nicol David International Squash Centre.

Both had dropped just one game to finish for the route to the final. Joshna Chinappa is the first Indian girl who had won the British Squash Championship title in 2003 in the under 19 category, at Sheffield in U.K and she is also counted among the youngest Indian women’s national champion.

LANCE ARMSTRONG STRIPPED OF FROM SEVEN TOUR DE FRANCE TITLES

Lance Armstrong on 22 October 2012 was stripped of from all the seven Tour de France Titles and banned for life from cycling. This event occurred as a follow up of the 202 page report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA ) that accused Armstrong of leading a doping programme on his team.

President of International Cycling Union (UCI) Pat McQuaid cleared on 22 October 2012 that the report from the anti-doping agency, USADA was accepted and no appeals would be made in the Court of Arbitration for Sports. Organisers of Tour de France would now officially remove the name of Armstrong from all its record books that will include omission of his consecutive victories from 1999 to 2005. Christian Prudhomme the Tour Director announced that no official winners of these years would be declared and the race would follow the decisions made by the UCI.

SAHARA INDIA PARIWAR FELICITATED LONDON OLYMPIC MEDALISTS

Sahara India Pariwar on 31 October 2012 at the Sahara Shaher in Lucknow felicitated six Indian athletes who won medals at the London Olympics in July-August 2012. The function was attended by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and by renowned businessmen, politicians and officials and was marked with a cultural programme which included some memorable performances by Sonu Nigam and Shiamak Davar’s troupe. The silver medalist Sushil Kumar and Vijay Kumar were presented with gold weighing three kg while bronze medalist Gagang Narang, Saina Nehwal, Mary Kom and Yogeshwar Dutt were presented with 2 kg of gold by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Sahara India Pariwar is a major business conglomerate and the prime promoter& patron of sports in India. It had been already declared by Sahara India Pariwar prior to the commencement of the London Olympics that it is going to award medals of pure gold of 5 Kg, 3 Kg and 2 Kg to every Indian winning gold, silver and bronze medal respectively in the London Olympics 2012.

VIJAY KUMAR NAMED SERVICES BEST SPORTSMAN

London Olympic Shooter and silver medalist Vijay Kumar on 19 October 2012 was honoured with the Services Best Sportsman award for 2012 at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi. The award which include trophy and cash award of one lakh rupees is generally given to the best sportsman from the three defence forces of Army, Air Force and Navy. Vijay Kumar is the current world number and had earlier won three gold medals and one silver medal at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Vijay Kumar won a silver medal at the July-August 2012 London Games in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol. Vijay Kumar is from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh and is presently a serving Subedar Major in the Dogra Regiment (16th Battalion) of the Indian Army. He was also awarded with Arjuna Award in 2007 and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2011-12 by the Government of India.

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