1. Archery World Cup: Deepika Kumari completes golden hat-trick with win in individual event: Star archer Deepika Kumari led from the front and grabbed a hat-trick of gold medals as India made an unprecedented clean sweep at the World Cup Stage 3 on 27 June.
2. Women’s ODI cricket
England vs India; 27 Jun
Eng 202/2
Ind. 201/8
England won by 8 wkts st County Frnd Bristol
3. Aarthie Ramaswamy (born 28 June 1981) is a chess player from India.
She is Woman Grand Master (WGM) and is the national champion on year 2003. In 1999, she won the girls’ under-18 world championship, held in Oropesa, Spain.
4. PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat views on Sports; ge said most sportspersons hail from smaller towns & villages. He said the team going to the Tokyo Olympics has many such players whose lives are very inspiring. He mentioned Praveen Jadhav who hails from a village in Satara district of Maharashtra. A very good at Archery. His parents run the family by working as labourers & now their son is going to participate in his first Olympics at Tokyo.
5. PM also highlighted about Deepika Kumari whose life has been full of ups and downs. Deepika’s father drives an auto rickshaw and her mother is a nurse. Deepika is at present the only female archer from India in the Tokyo Olympics.
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