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P16.E$S Layout 1 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 SPORTS Korea leaps over India, China to grab top spot Kuwaiti shooters bag gold, bronze medals By Abdellatif Sharaa Rashidi in 2011, defeated India’s Mana Singh ing hard in order to raise his level and always Sandhu, who was world champion in 2006, 2010 have Kuwait’s flag flying high. Shooter Khalid Results of competition of the 13th Asian KUWAIT: Kuwait shooters were outstanding and 2014 in a shoot off and took the trap’s Murad lauded the competition and said it makes Championship for November 9, 2015 once again and snatched one gold and 2 bronze bronze. them all gain experience and improve their medals during the seventh day of competition, Meanwhile Talal Al-Rashidi dedicated his skills. Lebanese player Edmond Jalakh said he while Korea was able to leap over China and medals in the individual and team events to HH was happy to win the gold medal for his country Trap Men - Individual 2. Lakshay Lakshay - India India to take first place in the medals standing of the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- in the trap event, as this made him feel the 1. Sik Young Lee - Korea 3. Patrick Akoury - Lebanon the 13th Asian Shooting Championship, which Sabah, HH The Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- tremendous responsibility. He added that he 2. Alexander Hagen Topacio - Philipines comes to a close today at Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Kuwait shooting wish to participate by Kuwait in the future, as 3. Talal Al-Rashidi - Kuwait Trap Men - Junior Team Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex. federation. He said the three medals are the organization here is great and is no less than 1. Lebanon World Juniors Champion, Kuwait’s Talal Al- result of collective work, adding that he is work- world or Olympic events. Trap Men - Team 2. India 1. Kuwait 3. Kuwait 2. China 3. India 50 M Rifle 3 Position - Men 1. Jonghyun Kim - Korea Trap Men - Junior 2. Qinan Zhu - China 1. Artyom Chikulayev - Kazakhstan 3. Zicheng Hui - China. Nepal players bailed in ‘Legendary’ champion World Cup fixing case KATHMANDU: A court granted bail yester- integrity or national unity. Eddery dead at 63 day to Nepal’s national football captain and “The court has declared bail in the four other players charged with treason over amount of 500,000 rupees ($5,000) for Anjan alleged match-fixing in World Cup qualifiers, KC and Ritesh Thapa, 100,000 rupees for LONDON: Pat Eddery, the legendary 11-time 1973 at Bath and in all had nearly 400 winners a lawyer for one of the defendants said. Sagar Thapa and 50,000 each for Sandip Rai British flat champion jockey, has died at the for me. “I was lucky to be training in a vintage “The Special Court has ordered the play- and Bikash Singh Chhetri,” Budhathoki told age of 63, the racing manager for owner era of jockeys and the fact Pat rode for me on ers to be released on bail,” said Nani Babu AFP. A physiotherapist, Dejiv Thapa, has also Prince Khalid Abdullah announced yesterday. and off for 30 years tells you everything.” Budhathoki, representing former national been charged with treason in absentia. The Irish-born horseman won over 4,600 Dunlop added: “He was a delightful man to footballer Bikash Singh Chhetri. Detectives said the arrests came after sig- races before retiring in 2003. Among his haul spend time with, he had huge success but All five players, including skipper Sagar nificant sums of money were found deposit- of big race wins were four Prix de l’Arc de was great company at the same time. Above Thapa and national goalkeeper Ritesh ed in the six suspects’ bank accounts from Triomphes and three Derbys, making him one all, he just worked harder than the others I Thapa, have denied any involvement in suspected match-fixers based in Southeast of the greatest jockeys of all time. think. “Silver Patriarch was special. To come match-fixing following their arrests last Asia. month in the capital. The six men are suspected of involve- “It is extremely sad news,” said Teddy back from being beaten a nose in the Derby Prosecutors have sought life sentences ment in match-fixing over a period of Grimthorpe, racing manager to Juddmonte and win the St Leger, and for it to be his for the five, including defender Sandip Rai eight years, including several games owner Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. 4,000th winner made it a very memorable and coach Anjan KC, after they were played in 2011 as part of Nepal’s unsuc- “Everyone at Juddmonte is very shocked and day.” Carson, the five-time champion and a charged on Sunday under a 1989 act against cessful bid to qualify for the 2014 World saddened by it. close friend and rival of Eddery, said: “Part of unlawfully jeopardising Nepal’s sovereignty, Cup in Brazil.—AFP “He spanned the greatest era for jockeys my life has gone because I knew Pat for a very ever. Lester Piggott, Steve Cauthen, Willie long time. He was an absolute gentleman and Carson, all were exceptional, yet Pat’s ability one of the greatest jockeys to ever put a leg was unquestioned.” over a horse. “He was a born rider and always In total Eddery triumphed in 14 British did the right thing and got horses running for Classics, including three Derbys aboard him.” Pebbles’ trainer Clive Brittain recalled: Grundy (1975), Golden Fleece (1982) and “He was ice cool in any situation and nothing Quest For Fame (1990). Perhaps his finest hour bugged him. There was nobody stronger and came aboard Dancing Brave in the 1986 Prix as a tactician he was out on his own. de l’Arc de Triomphe, when he made a late “You didn’t instruct Pat-he was natural. charge down the centre of the track to snatch Whatever happened in the race Pat would a sensational victory against a glittering field. adjust to and I’ll miss him greatly.” Tony His other Arc winners came aboard Detroit McCoy, the 20-time champion jump jockey, in 1980, Rainbow Quest (1985) and tweeted: “Very sad news to hear of the pass- Pat Eddery Trempolino (1987). He achieved other memo- ing of Pat Eddery, true genius in the saddle and a gentleman RIP.” rable successes with Pebbles at the Breeders’ #legend.” After retiring from the saddle Eddery took KATHMANDU: Nepalese national football team goalkeeper Ritesh Thapa kisses his Cup and Silver Patriarch in the St Leger, which Another multiple flat champion, Johnny up training, sending out Hearts Of Fire to son as he arrives during ongoing hearings into a corruption case at court in gave him his 4,000th win, in 1997. Murtagh, wrote: “Sad to hear the passing of claim a Group One victory in Italy. Jockeys Kathmandu yesterday. —AFP Silver Patriarch was trained by John Dunlop legendary jockey Pat Eddery. Everybody held a minute’s silence in his honour before who said: “Pat rode his first winner for me in looked up to him in the weigh room, real pro racing at Lingfield. —AFP Lapasset backs Japan inclusion in Rugby Championship BENGALURU: World Rugby chairman a similar deal at international level is a New Zealand, Australia,” Lapasset told nations in the South.” ens tournament in Rio. Bernard Lapasset has voiced his back- distinct possibility.Japan beat off a bid reporters in Tokyo on Monday. “That’s The popularity of rugby in Japan Television viewing figures in Japan ing for Japan’s inclusion in the from Singapore to enter next year’s the top five-with Japan. Not just Tier 2 has rocketed after the Brave Blossoms soared after the South Africa game Southern Hemisphere Rugby expanded 18-side tournament and will and Tier 1, the top five,” the Frenchman stunned two-time world champions and Lapasset has fixed his sights firmly Championship competition alongside get their first taste of Super Rugby added. South Africa with a last-gasp 34-32 win on increasing the sport’s popularity New Zealand, Australia, South Africa action at the Prince Chichibu Memorial “We need to achieve the process at the recent World Cup in england. across the rest of Asia. and Argentina. Stadium in Tokyo on Feb. 27 when that all five will be pushing together to They went on to become the first “The Super Rugby is a good format The sport is enjoying a surge in they host the Lions of Johannesburg. develop the southern competition and team to bow out of the pool stages to promote rugby in the South that popularity in the country that will host “Japan is part of the total global to promote the best rugby ever that with three wins but had better luck in includes some matches in Singapore. the next World Cup in 2019 and after vision of the rugby that we are pro- we can do in the South. completing a second-half rally against That’s important to extend the value securing a franchise in the Super moting in the world, especially in the “We did the same in the North with hosts Hong Kong on Sunday to book a and the quality of the game in Asia,” he Rugby tournament, Lapasset believes South with Argentina, South Africa, the Six Nations. Now it will be the five berth at the 2016 Olympic rugby sev- said. — Reuters.
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