Sasikiran upsets Fedoseev, joins Nihal
The Hindu
In the women’s section, D. Harika drew with the 2015 World championship finalist Natalija Pogonina to reach 3.5 points.
Veteran K. Sasikiran upstaged fancied Russian Vladimir Fedoseev and caught up with an unbeaten Nihal Sarin in the second score-group at 3.5 points after five rounds of $425 FIDE Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga, Latvia, on Sunday.
In the women’s section, D. Harika drew with the 2015 World championship finalist Natalija Pogonina to reach 3.5 points.
Harika is sharing the sixth spot behind the five-leader pack.
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Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.