SPORTS NOVEMBER 2013

SPORTS NOVEMBER 2013

• Formula one racing driver Sebastian Vettel won the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix 2013 on 24 November 2013. With this victory Vettel matched Michael Schumacher’s record of 13 victories in a year and equaled the nine consecutive wins of Alberto Ascari. Vettel’s Red Bull teammate Mark Webber was second in his final F1 race. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was third. Recently, Sebastian Vettel also won the Formula One Indian Grand Prix 2013 at Buddha International Circuit on 27 October 2013.Sebastian Vettel is a German formulae one racing driver and at present he is driving for the Red Bull a Austrian racing team. He became the youngest driver, who won the World Drivers’ Championship in 2010 and the same year he helped Red Bull to win the first team’s World Constructors Championship.
  
• Sarah Teelow, the world champion water skier of Australia died on 25 November 2013 after a fall during a high-speed endurance race on Australia’s Hawkesbury River. The 21 year old, Teelow fell from her skis after the start of the 75 mile Bridge to Bridge Water Ski Classic near Sydney. She was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition, with spinal and head injuries and later she died in the hospital. She is the seventh water-skier to die in an accident in Australia in last five years. Teelow had won the Formula 2 category at the World Waterski Racing Championships in Spain in last September.
  
• Indian weightlifter, Deepak Lathore won Gold and two Silver medals in the Boys' 50 Kg category of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships on 25 November 2013 at Penang, Malaysia. On the opening day of the event, Lathore took the Gold in Snatch with a lift of 83 kg. In Clean and Jerk, he lifted 102 kg to claim the Silver. With a total lift of 185 kg, he won another Silver in the event. The 2013 Commonwealth Senior, Junior and Youth weightlifting Championships are being held at Penang city of Malaysia from 24 to 30 November 2013. In this event, India is represented by 41 Weightlifters in three categories.
  
• Jason Day, Australian Golfer won the Golf world cup at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne on 24 November 2013. Australia team (Jason Day and Adam Scott) also won the team Championships by beating the American team of Matt Kuchar and Kevin Streelman.With this victory Jason Day collected 1.2 million Dollars for sealing individual Title and will share another 6,00,000 Dollars with Adam Scott for winning the team trophy. Indian Golfer Anirban Lahiri finished with 25th place in the tournament. India finished 26th and last in the team Championships.
  
• Mohammed Siddikur of Bangladesh won the 50th edition of Indian Open golf tournament on 10 November, 2013 held at Delhi Golf Club, New Delhi. It was his second Asian Tour title win after Brunei Open victory in 2010. The tournament carries a cash prize of US $ 1.25 million. This win catapulted him from ninth to third spot on the Order of Merit. Siddikur scored a total of 274 to edge past his Indian friends Anirban Lahiri and S.S.P. Chowrasia to win the tournament. Mohammad Siddikur Rahman was born on 20 November 1984. He is a Bangladeshi professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour.
  
• Novak Djokovic on 11 November 2013 retained the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title after defeating the number one Rafael Nadal. The world number two Djokovic, won 6-3, 6-4 at the O2 Arena in London. The ATP world tour took place between 4 and 11 November 2013. He earned US $ 19,23,000 prize money and 1,500 Emirates ATP Ranking points, while Nadal earned US $ 10,13,000 and 1,000 points as he dropped to a 10-4 record in finals in 2013. Earlier, Djokovic won the same title in the year 2008 and 2012.
  
• The Indian Women Hockey Team on 9 November 2013 won the Silver Medal, losing 0-1 to the hosts Japan in the final of the 3rd Women Asian Champions Trophy played at Kakamigahara in Japan. Indian goalkeeper Rajni Etimarpu was adjudged Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament and Indian Women Team won Fair Play Award in the tournament. Japan won the gold, while India and Malaysia bagged the silver and bronze medals respectively in the four-team event. Malaysia defeated China 3-1 in the bronze-medal play-off match.
• India was selected by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on 7 November 2013 to host the Men’s World Cup of Hockey in 2018. The finals will be played from 1 to 16 December 2018. Also, England will host the Women’s World Cup of hockey from 7-21 July, 2018. This was announced by Leandro Negre, the President of FIH at Lausanne during the special ceremony. Hockey's World Cup is held every four years and is second only to the Olympics in significance. India hosted the world cup in 2010 at New Delhi. The 2014 edition of Hockey World Cup would be played in The Hague, Netherlands.
• Yuki Bhambri on 4 November 2013 won the ATP men’s singles title of Traralgon event in Australia. He defeated Bradely Klahn of America in the summit clash that was hit by rain. This is the second win of his career. Yuki, the 21 years old Indian defeated higher ranking Bradely by 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 in the finals in a match played on two days due to rain. This is the third straight win of Yuki over a higher ranked opponent in this tournament. The 277 ranked Yuki earlier defeated, Tatsuma of Japan ranked 191 and the James Duckworth of Australia ranked 147 in the tournament to reach the finals.
• Rohit Sharma, the Indian batsman on 2 November 2013 became the third cricketer in the world to score a double hundred in a one-day international (ODI) match. He scored 209 runs off 158 balls against Australia in seventh and final ODI match at Bangalore's M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. His runs included 12 fours and 16 sixes, which also means that he re-wrote the record of highest number of sixes in an ODI match. He out-beat Shane Watson’s record of 15 sixes in the ODI which he hit in the match against Bangladesh. It is worth noticing that all the three batsmen who scored double hundred in one day match are Indians. The milestone was at first achieved by Sachin Tendulkar who scored 200 runs against South Africa in the year 2010. The second one to do so was Virendra Sehwag who scored 219 against West Indies in the year 2011 and the third one is Rohit Sharma to score 209 runs against Australia in 2013. The records broken by Rohit Sharma are - the highest scorer against Australia, highest number of sixes in the ODI innings, second highest ODI score (209) after Virendra Sehwag (219).