SUNIL JOSHI DOB:              9th April, 1975 State:             Maharashtra City:               Mumbai Club:              ClubMK Sunil Joshi started playing Pickleball in 2014. It was around spring that year when Sunil Valavalkar gave a demonstration of the game at Mangal Kripa Society, located in the busy Goregaon area of …

Bainbridge Cup was started in 2017 by the International Federation of Pickleball (IFP) to meet the growing demand of organized international Pickleball competition among the member countries. It is the first intercontinental Pickleball event where the format consists of competition among teams representing different continents. The first two editions saw …

Deepa Malik, who became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Paralympic Games when she bagged a silver in shot put F 53 at the Rio Paralympics in 2016, is named the recipient of the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019. Deepa has …

Graham Reid, the Olympic medal-winner former Australian player, is the latest entrant in the Indian Hockey scenario. Reid has been appointed as the new chief coach of the India Men’s Hockey team. Reid has been handed a contract till the end of 2020, which can be extended depending on his …

The Olympic Charter affirms, “The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.” Following this, it can be stated that sport can play a major role in …

Indian shooters claimed 16 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze to sign off with a total of 25 medals at the Asian Airgun Championship in Taipei. On the final day the shooters won 6 gold medals. Yash Vardhan and Shreya Agrawal bagged three gold medals each. Yash won the 10m …

To promote happiness, health and well-being among professional and budding Badminton players, Pulella Gopichand Badminton Academy has entered into collaboration with IIT Kharagpur. The engineering institute has signed an MoU with PGBA to carry out joint training and research in the area of the happiness and well-being of players. The …

Young Indian shooters had a profitable day at the Asian Airgun Championship when they won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze on Day 3 of the competition. India now has a total of 5 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medals with half the competition still to go. Manu …

India had a successful start to the 12th Asian Airgun Championship in Taipei as India’s young guns clinched gold in both 10m Air Pistol junior and senior events. Exactly a month after a gold medal winning feat at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary continued …

India created history. The Indian team of ‘Special Olympians’ returned with a whopping tally of 368 medals from the Special Olympics World Games 2019 that was hosted in Abu Dhabi from March 14 to 21, 2019. India finished with 85 gold, 154 silver and 129 bronze.   Medals were won …