SPORTS AUGUST 2009

SPORTS AUGUST 2009

Kingfisher’s Forbes India team has won 8 points for the first time in F1 Belgian Grand Prix with Fischichella achieving 2nd rank.

India’s mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju won the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold over Malaysia’s Peng Soon Chan and Liu Ying Goh.

Russian Yelena Isinbayeva set world record in Pole vault held at Zurich Golden League Meet.

Roger Federer has won the Cincinnati Masters title beating Novok Djokovic.

Rubens Barichello (Brazil) has won F1 European Grand prix.

Olympic bronze medal winner Vijender Singh achieved a career-high second rank in the International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) official rankings. Among other Indians, Beijing Olympics quarterfinalist Akhil Kumar has been placed ninth in the feather weight (57kg).

Kenenisa Bekele has won the world championship in 5000m and 10000m running consecutively for the fourth time.

Dubois won the Vancouver final beating Sania Mirza.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt obliterated his own 100 meters World record to win the World championship final in a breathtaking 9.58 seconds. He also created world record in 200m running by completing in 19.19seconds.

South Korean golf star Yang Yong-Eun beat world number one Tiger Woods by two strokes and won the PBA Golf Champions tournament.

Mahesh Bhupati and Knowles has won the Montreal tennis title.

Lin Dan won his third straight world title defeating second-seeded fellow Chinese and World No. 2 Chen Jin in men’s singles final in the BWF World badminton championship.

In the women’s final seventh-seeded Lan Lu of China defeated two-time world champion and fifth-seeded Xie Xingfang. 

World Badminton Championship started at Hyderabad. England did not participate in the championship due to security reasons. 

India is the Asia Youth Chess Champion. Second place goes to Vietnam. 

India stood at third place in the world junior squash championship. Egypt stood at first place.