Hyderabad: Telangana Grandmaster Raja Rithvik clinched a silver medal at the Laplagne International chess championship in France on Saturday. Ninth seed Rithvik scored seven points from nine rounds and won the tie-breaker with Iniyan, GM Prraneeth Vuppala and IM Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad for the second place. GM Iniyan Panneerselvam took the bronze.Shivani bags doubleShivani Karra clinched gold in 100m backstroke Group 2 and 200m butterfly group 2 events of the 9th Telangana sub-junior and junior Inter-district swimming. Results: Boys: 200m breaststroke Group 1: 1 Yashaswi Nune (RR), 2 Gowtham Chirumamilla (RR), 3 Gajjala Virinchi Reddy (Hyd). 400m freestyle Group 1: 1 Varshith Dhulipudi (Hyd), 2 Edakkolathur Stash Joseph (RR), 3 Thanmay Rithwick Kasula (Hyd). 200m freestyle Group 3: 1 Abdul Hameed Eshaan (RR), 2 Aashish Raj Nandikanti (RR), 3 Adhrith Kode (Hyd). Girls: 200m freestyle Group 2: 1 Meghana Nair (Hyd), 2 Annika Deborah Paripooranam Ananth (RR), 3 Devapalli Ritu Snehal (Hyd). 800m freestyle Group 1: 1 Preethika Manduri (Hyd), 2 Hema Varshini Jambuluri (RR), 3 Shambhavi Rai (Hyd). 1500m freestyle Group 2: 1 Jona Shiju (Hyd), 2 Devapalli Ritu Snehal (Hyd), 3 Vilakshana Patel Porandla (RR). 100m backstroke Group 2: 1 Shivani Karra (Hyd), 2 Annika Deborah (RR), 3 Ishi Agarwal (RR). 200m butterfly Group 2: 1 Shivani Karra (Hyd), 2 Harshitha Varma (RR), 3 Merupula Likhitha Goud (Hyd).Narrow win for Shastri FC Siva Reddy scored two goals while Arron John and Zidane added one each as Shastri FC defeated Deccan Sporting FC 4-3 in the TFAs Shiv Kumar Lal B division football league. Danny shines for StarsDanny scored 19 points while Kamal added 13 as Rising Stars Hyderabad defeated State Bank of India, Amaravati 60-24 in the first round match of Level II of HDBAs annual league championship.Results: Rising Stars (Secbad) 53 (Karthik 11; Akhil 8) bt KVBR Stadium 18 (Amshul 16). Rising Stars (Hyd) 60 (Danny 19; Kamal 13; Ajay 9) bt State Bank of India (Amravati) 24 (Kala Sagar 17).TNN

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