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Hosting World Para Athletics Championships gives India pride of place globally, say sporting icons

New Delhi, Oct 5(UNI) Curtains came down on the IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships on Sunday, which witnessed more than 2200 participants from 100-plus nations competing for 186 medal events, with the first-time hosts pocketing a record 22 medals, including 6 Gold, 9 Silver and 7 Bronze, their best-ever performance till date.
By hosting the World Para Athletics Championships 2025, India have entered a space usually reserved for elite and established organisers, feel celebrities of the sports world. The iconic Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium has been witness to the 2010 Commonwealth Games that included para athletics as a medal event but this WPAC has pitchforked India's capability to seamlessly host an international event to a "different level," feel several international para athletes, World Champions and Indian sports icons.
At previous world championships, India had clinched nine medals at the Dubai 2019 edition, 10 medals at Paris 2023 and 17 medals at 2024 Kobe edition. In the Paralympics too, India’s medal tally witnessed a surge from two medals at 2004 Athens to four medals in 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 19 medals in 2020 Tokyo and 29 medals, their best performance till date, at 2024 Paris Paralympics.
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Bezzecchi pulls clear to beat Marquez and Acosta in Portimao

09 Nov 2025 | 10:18 PM

Portimao(Portugal), Nov 09(UNI) It was perfection from start to finish from Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing) who led every one of the 25 laps at Portimao for the Portuguese GP. A vital victory saw him move comfortably clear in the race for third overall in the Championship, although he’ll need just a few points to secure it next week in Valencia. Behind the Italian on the track, Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) resisted a late surge in pace from Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) with the podium being reshuffled from Saturday’s Sprint.

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Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Record-breaking Akash stars with fastest first-class 50, 6 sixes in an over

09 Nov 2025 | 9:54 PM

Shillong, Nov 9 (UNI) Meghalaya’s Akash Kumar Choudhary etched his name into the history books of cricket after becoming only the third batter to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket on Sunday on the second day of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 plate group match against Arunachal Pradesh in Surat, Gujarat. .

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Anish shoots his way to World Championship silver

09 Nov 2025 | 9:48 PM

New Delhi, Nov 09(UNI) Olympian Anish Bhanwala survived a total of four shoot-offs to clinch silver, his first senior individual world championship medal on competition day two of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Cairo. The 23-year-old kept his composure in the second last series to survive a double shoot off against bronze medal winner, Maksym Horodynets of Ukraine and go into the final series to shoot for the gold medal, which was eventually won by Clement Bessaguet of France, who upgraded his back-to-back silver medals in the competition..

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Washington Sundar named ‘Impact Player of the Series’ as India clinch T20I win over Australia

09 Nov 2025 | 9:24 PM

Brisbane (Australia), Nov 9 (UNI) India’s Washington Sundar was named ‘Impact Player of the Series’ following his crucial contributions in the five-match T20I series against Australia, which India clinched 2-1.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) released a behind-the-scenes video titled ‘Dressing Room BTS’, capturing the moment Sundar received the award amid loud cheers from his teammates in the dressing room.

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ICC eyes Ahmedabad, Kolkata for T20 2026 semifinals

09 Nov 2025 | 9:18 PM

Bengaluru, Nov 9 (UNI) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has shortlisted Ahmedabad and Kolkata as potential hosts for the semifinals of the 2026 T20 World Cup, which will be jointly organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).

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