Sports – Page 19 – Karnataka First

** Muddappa posts fastest time as Bengaluru riders dominate drag races

Riders from Bengaluru, spearheaded by reigning champion Hemanth Muddappa, swept the honours in the first round of the MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship which concluded at the MMRT, here on Sunday amidst Covid-19 safety protocols.

Muddappa, 31, astride his Suzuki Hayabusa, was the quickest of all riders, clocking 07.882 seconds over 302-metres strip while winning the featured Super Sport Above 1051cc category ahead of fellow-Bengalureans Hafizullah Khan (08.116) and Harish Naik (08.538).

** Three Belagavi footballers make it to Indian team

It is a proud moment for Belagavi as three budding women football players from the city have made it to the Indian side for the Mini Football Women’s World Cup-2021, which will be held in Ukraine this month.Anjali Hindalgekar, Aditi Jadhav and Priyanka Kangralkar are all degree students studying in different colleges. Apart from them, Vibha and Sanjana from Bengaluru too have made it to the national team.

With this, Karnataka has a lion’s share five players in the 11-member Indian side.

** Bengaluru woman cycles across Golden Quadrilateral on a tandem

Meera Velanker logged 6,263km in 41 days and seven hours, battling rains and punctures

** Suvarana Belaku Foundation supports Indian Olympians

** Sailor K.C. Ganapathy All Set To Make A Mark At Olympics

** ASF Athlete Jyothika Selected For National Junior Camp At Patiala

** Aditi Ashok swings well, finishes third in US tournament

With the Tokyo Olympics round the corner, Bengaluru girl Aditi Ashok is making all the right noises before she heads for the quadrennial event

** Making waves: Tokyo Olympics is a dream come true for swimmer Srihari Nataraj

Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, B’luru swimmer Srihari Nataraj, goes back in time, recalling his love for the sport from an early age

** Have you chosen the right sport? Find out here

Sports laboratory is coming up in Karnataka, would assess if sportsperson has chosen the right sport for their body frame

In what is said to be the first of its kind facility in South India, a sports laboratory that would assess and tell a sportsperson if they have chosen the right sport for their body frame is coming up in Karnataka.

The ₹29 crore facility in government-run Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics in Bengaluru is touted to be the second such facility in the country after the State-run Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. The foundation stone for the new building that will house the laboratory was laid on Thursday.

** Kodagu Hockey Coach Leaves For Tokyo With Women’s Team

Ankitha Suresh, a Hockey Coach from Kodagu, who has made a mark in national and international-level hockey, has left for Tokyo Olympics along with the Indian Men’s and Women’s Hockey teams.

She has been selected as Assistant National Coach by Hockey India for the Indian Senior Women’s Hockey Team.