Volleyball News
At 2009 FIVB Men's Junior Volleyball World Championship, Pune, India

Pool A
India bt USA 25-23 25-22 25-18 (85m)
Belarus bt Tunisia 24-26 26-24 25-17 25-17 (107m)

India made history Sunday night by defeating USA to first time enter into final 8 ... Yesterday we played poor match and today when needed our boys showed their best performance ... Against USA they were almost flawless ... Superb blocking and smashes by our players, our players played like oiled team unit ... Gurinder Singh was player of the day, he scored 19 points but he was also very good with blocking.

With this win India topped Pool A and now they will grouped in Pool E with Belgium, Argentina and last edition's runner-up Russia.
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Swimming News
At 13th FINA World Championship, Rome, Italy

Day 8
Men's 400m Individual Medley
42 Rehan Poncha IND 4:31.34sec +21.30 secs (new National record)

Women's 400m Individual Medley
44 Pooja Raghava Alva IND 5:28.37sec +53.75 secs

Men's 4x 100m Medley Relay
30 India 3:48.85sec +19.37 secs
Ashwin Menon 1:00.83sec
Sandeep Sejwal 1:02.28sec
Rehan Poncha 55.52sec
Virdhawal Khade 50.22sec

Rehan Poncha bettered his own national record by more than 2 seconds in Men's 400m Individual Medley, he created record in 2007 of 4:33.59sec.