Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand Open Grand Prix 2009, North Shore, Auckland

[F] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt (4) Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN) 21-16 15-21 21-13

Rupesh and Sanave performed to their top-billing in this New Zealand Grand Prix to lift Mens doubles title ... They defeated Japanese 4th seed pair in three games, after losing second game they comeback strongly to won 3rd game easily.
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Swimming News
At 13th FINA World Championship, Rome, Italy

Day 7
Men's 1500m Freestyle
32 Mandar Divase IND 16:12.28 mins +1:17.74 mins (new National record)

Women's 50m Freestyle
97 Chittaranjan Shubha IND 28.04 secs +03.80 secs
110 Talasha Prabhu IND 28.53 secs +04.29 secs

Women's 50m Breaststroke
93 Murugaperumal Mercy Venpa IND 40.67 secs +10.43 secs

Women's 4x 100m Medley Relay
33 India 4:53.02 mins +1:09.81 mins
Fariha Zaman 1:11.89 mins
Murugaperumal Mercy Venpa 1:28.78 mins
Pooja Raghava Alva 1:08.24 mins
Chittaranjan Shubha 1:04.11 mins

Mandar Divase bettered his own national record by almost 5 seconds, previous record of 16:17.07sec which he made in last year's Senior National Swimming Championships.