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Indian Grandmaster, P Magesh Chandran who presently lives in the USA, won the prestigious title of the Hastings International Chess Congress. The tournament was held in Hastings, England.
He completed the game with 7.5 points and remained unbeaten in all rounds. The 36-year-old chess player became the Grand master in 2006. With 6 points each, other Indian players Deep Sengupta and Swayam Mishra were placed in the 13th and 14th ranks respectively.

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The international sports event for the members of the Common wealth, the Commonwealth Games of 2022 will be conducted in the city of Birmingham, England. England plays host to the event for the third time. The prestigious event is scheduled to take place between July 27 and August 7, 2020.
Recently, Commonwealth Games India (CGI) submitted its proposal to host a Commonwealth shooting event and an archery event in India during 2022. But the federation is yet to announce that if the medals won in the proposed Shooting Championship will be added to the final CWG tally of the countries.

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The 23rd National Youth Festival is to be organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in Lucknow from January 12 to 16, 2020, in association with the Uttar Pradesh Government. The festival is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
Every year, the birthday of the famous Indian monk from Kolkata, Swami Vivekananda is celebrated as the National Youth day on January 12 and the week commencing from the day as the National Youth week. During the youth festival, several competitions are held for the youth and National Youth awards are also presented.

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The team representing Serbia defeated the team of Spain  in the inaugural ‘ATP Cup’ 2020 Tennis tournament held at Sydney. The top-rated Tennis player of Serbia and World No 2  Novak Djokovic defeated the World No 1 Rafael Nadal of Spain. With this victory, Serbia won the title by defeating Spain 2-1.
Djokovic subsequently partnered with his team-mate Viktor Troicki to win the doubles match and confirmed the country’s victory.

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Shivangi Sharma is a top freestyle swimmer, who belongs to the state of Assam. She has won five gold medals and two silver medals for Assam, in the recently held Khelo India Youth Games. She became the most successful girl in the event with 7 medals.
Shivangi won her fifth Gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle event in the category of women (Under-21), in addition to her earlier gold in 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 800 m freestyle events and 2 silver medals in the team events.

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The 18-year-old top Indian cyclist Esow Alben was seen in news, as he recently won the gold medal in the Six Day Berlin Tournament. He won the medal in the men’s Keirin individual event category.
Esow was the first-ever Indian to participate in the Six-Day Berlin Cycling Tournament. The event is a six-day track cycling race and all cyclists compete on every day of the competition. Esow also won bronze on the second day and a silver medal on the fourth day in the individual Keirin event. The gold medal was bagged by him at the fifth day of the event. The young cyclist is currently at world number 51 in Elite Keirin event.

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Indian hockey star and the Indian women’s team captain Rani Rampal was recently named as the ‘World Games Athlete of the Year’. She also became the first-ever hockey player worldwide to win the award.
The FIH (International Hockey Federation) has recommended her name for the prestigious award. Rani has topped the 20-day-poll conducted by the World Games with the highest number of votes. She was the player of the tournament in the last year’s FIH Series Finals, in which she led the country to win.

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Christine Sinclair is a famous footballer of Canada and the captain of Canada National Team. She recently created a record of becoming the world’s all-time international leading goal scorer.
She achieved this feat after her 185th career goal during the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament. She has broken the world record of American Footballer Abby Wambach who had scored 184 goals. This record includes both male and female category. Ali Daei of Iran tops the men’s international scoring list with 109 goals.

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Rubigula, the Flame-throated Bulbul is the official state bird of Goa. The bird, also known as Ruby-throated yellow bulbul, has been named as the official mascot for the 2020 National Games.
Goa is set to play host to the 36th edition of the National Games from 20th October to 4th November, 2020 in 37 sports disciplines across 24 venues. In a ceremony recently held, Chief Minister of Goa Pramod Sawant and Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju unveiled the state bird as the mascot.

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Ace Indian weight-lifter, Mirabai Chanu set a new national record in the National Weightlifting Championships in Kolkata, by improving her previous record. The former world champion and common wealth gold medallist belongs to the state of Manipur.
Mirabai lifted a total of 203kg to win the 49kg gold, which was better than her previous best- 201 kg, which she had achieved at the World Championships at Thailand, in September last year. The 25-year-old weight-lifter was placed fourth in the world rankings. Jeremy Lalrinnunga, another top weight-lifter from India won the men’s 67kg title in the Championship.