1. Indian heavyweight boxer Sanjeet defeated Olympic silver-medallist Vassiliy Levit in the 91kg final to clinch gold medal at the Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai.
2. Earlier, Defending Champion Amit Panghal and Shiva Thapa settled for silver medals at the Asian Boxing Championship in Dubai.
3. Pablo Andujar beats two-time French Open finalist Dominic Thiem in French Open: In French Open, Spaniard Pablo Andujar made a remarkable recovery from being two sets down, for the first time in his career, to beat a top-5 player when he shocked fourth seed Austrian Dominic Thiem 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the first-round.
4. Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker, IndiaтАЩs medal hopes in the WomenтАЩs 25M Pistol event at the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, shot identical Precision round scores of 291, at the on-going European Shooting Championship in Osijek, Croatia, on Monday.
The second Indian team comprising of Sanjeev Rajput and Tejaswini Sawant ended 33rdoverall with a tally of 862. Both Shooters had scores of 431 each.
Anjum shot 438 out of 450 after 15-shots each, in the 3 Positions of Kneeling, Prone and Standing, while Aishwary was a point behind with 437.
5. The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police is mulling booking two-time Olympic winner Sushil Kumar under the destruction of evidence act. In the wee hours of Monday, the Crime Branch took wrestler Sushil Kumar to Haridwar for the recovery of cell phone and clothes that he had worn on May 4, the night when the murder of Sagar Dhankar took place inside Chhatrasal Stadium.
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