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U23 Asian champion Sumit won the silver medal in the 60kg Greco-Roman category at the Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial 2025 wrestling tournament in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday.

The Indian wrestler was beaten 5-1 by European champion Nihat Mammadli of Azerbaijan, also a world champion in the non-Olympic 60kg event, in the final.

The Indian contingent finished with 10 medals – three gold, three silver and four bronze – at the Budapest wrestling ranking series.

Sumit beat Sadyk Lalaev 9-3 in the pre-quarterfinals before defeating Republic of Korea’s Dayhum Kim 7-4 via fall in the quarter-finals and Kazakhstan’s Galym Kabdunassarov 10-1 in the semis.

Anil Mor, meanwhile, won the bronze medal bout after beating Ikhtiyor Botirov of Uzbekistan 7-4 in the Greco-Roman 55kg. The Indian had won the gold medal in the same category at the Ulaanbaatar Open in May.

Mor had a difficult start to the campaign after losing 6-1 to European champion Emin Sefershaev in the quarter-finals but made the bronze medal match through repechage after a 7-0 win over Artiom Deleanu of Moldova.

Meanwhile, India’s other Greco-Roman wrestlers Neeraj (67kg) and Nitesh (97kg) failed to make it past qualification in their respective weight classes.

Nishant (77kg) was also beaten 9-0 in qualification to Róbert Fritsch of Hungary before losing 4-0 to the Republic of Korea’s Boseong Kang in the repechage.

The Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial in Budapest was the fourth and final wrestling ranking series of the year.

The ranking points on offer will help wrestlers earn better seeding for the 2025 World Wrestling Championships, which will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 13 to 21.

Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial 2025 wrestling: Indian medal winners

• Antim Panghal (women’s 53kg) – gold medal
• Harshita (women’s 72kg) – gold medal
• Sujeet Kalkal (men’s 65kg) – gold medal
• Neha Sangwan (women’s 57kg) – silver medal
• Priya Malik (women’s 76kg) – silver medal
• Sumit (Greco-Roman 60kg) -silver medal
• Neelam (women’s 50kg) – bronze medal
• Manisha (women’s 62kg) – bronze medal
• Rahul (men’s 57kg) – bronze medal
• Anil Mor (Greco-Roman 55kg) – bronze medal

There had been fanciful ideas that McIlroy, enjoying what has been a week-long lap of honour in his home country, would provide the fairytale ending.

Back competing in his native Northern Ireland for the first time since winning the Masters to complete the career Grand Slam, McIlroy bounced along with a boisterous backing as he posted a 66 on Saturday.

He needed another fast start on Sunday if he was to emulate his reeling in of Scheffler from six back at the 2022 Tour Championship in Atlanta.

Two birdies and a bogey in his opening five holes was anything but. Scheffler meanwhile covered the same holes in three under par.

The thunderous atmosphere that had welcomed McIlroy on to the first tee suddenly fell flat.

There was little challenge from elsewhere.

Scheffler’s playing partner Li Haotong, who had just three bogeys in his first three rounds, posted two in his opening four holes. Matt Fitzpatrick mixed two bogeys with three birdies on the front nine.

And then.

Out of nowhere, Scheffler took two swipes to escape from a fairway bunker on the eighth and recorded a double bogey.

Meanwhile, up on the ninth, Gotterup was knocking in a birdie putt to get to 11 under. The lead was suddenly four.

But Scheffler returned to, as McIlroy put it on Saturday, “playing like Scottie”.

He fired to four feet for a bounceback birdie on the ninth. A par at the next, coupled with Gotterup and Li bogeys saw the lead return to six. Game definitely over.

Without Scheffler this would have been an Open for the ages.

The leaderboard pulsed in the jostle for the minor places. American names came to the fore as the Europeans largely failed to shine in the last global event before September’s Ryder Cup.

High finishes at majors earn big points as the race for one of the six automatic places in each 12-strong team heats up.

Two-time major winner Bryson DeChambeau closed with a 64 to reach nine under – although he must have been stewing over his opening seven-over 78 on Thursday.

Wyndham Clark hit a 65 to close on 11 under, Gotterup a 67 for -12 and English split the difference with a 66 to finish a shot better still in outright second. Defending champion Xander Schauffele was briefly in a tie for second before finishing on 10 under

MacIntyre, who didn’t get the fast start he needed, finished supremely well, with four birdies in his final seven holes to finish level with McIlroy, while Fitzpatrick catapulted above them both with his late birdies to add some European colour to a star-spangled leaderboard.

Of others likely to be in Europe’s team at Bethpage in New York, Tyrrell Hatton holed nothing as he finished back on seven under. That was the same score as his fellow Englishman Justin Rose. Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg had a ruinous eight on the par-four 11th among seven birdies in a closing 70 that saw him finish on six under.

Scottie Scheffler completed a dominant performance to win The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush and become Champion Golfer of the Year.

The 29-year-old won by four shots after a final-round 68 to finish on 17-under-par for the week.

Scheffler went into Sunday with a four-shot lead over Haotong Li and immediately extended his advantage with a birdie on 1.

He followed that up with birdies on 4 and 5 and recovered from a rare error on 8 that led to a double bogey by sinking another birdie putt on 9.

On the back nine, he birdied the par-5 12^th and played sensible golf from there, before holing out on 18 to a raucous reception.

Harris English took second on 13-under-par, with Chris Gotterup a shot further back in third, after rounds of 66 and 67 respectively.

Wyndham Clark, Matt Fitzpatrick and Li shared fourth.

Nobody was going to catch Scottie Scheffler on Sunday afternoon.

The top-ranked golfer cruised to another dominant outing to claim the British Open. Scheffler, who entered the day with a massive four-shot lead, pushed it to seven at one point en route to his four-shot victory at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. Nobody even came close to catching him.

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The win marked Scheffler’s first at the British Open, which earned him the iconic Claret Jug and a $3.1 million check. He’s now won four major championships in his career, and he’s won his last 10 tournaments where he’s held the solo lead after 54 holes. Sunday was 1,197 days from Scheffler’s first major championship win, which is the exact same stretch to the day that it took Tiger Woods to go that same span.

Scheffler is now just a U.S. Open victory away from becoming the seventh golfer in history to complete the career grand slam, too.

Harris English finished alone in second at 13-under on the week, which gave him his second runner-up finish at a major championship this season. Chris Gotterup came in third at 12-under. Gotterup played his way into the tournament this week with his Scottish Open win last week, marking what’s been a career-altering stretch for the 26-year-old.

Rory McIlroy, who was the local favorite this week in his home country, ended up posting a 2-under 69 on Sunday. That moved him T7. While it wasn’t a win, McIlroy’s outing was significantly better than the missed cut he had the last time the British Open was at Portrush. That’s something.

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Oliver Solberg has secured a sensational victory on debut for TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team at Rally Estonia, claiming both his first win as well as the 100th for TOYOTA in the history of the FIA World Rally Championship.

As part of TGR’s commitment to provide a path for young talent to reach rallying’s top level, Solberg was handed the opportunity to step up for the high-speed gravel event in Estonia after his strong results driving the GR Yaris Rally2 car in the WRC2 category, where he currently leads the championship. It would be his first start in the highest category since 2022 and his 13th in total.

After two days of testing in Finland last week to familiarise himself with the GR YARIS Rally1, the 23-year-old Swedish driver and his British co-driver Elliott Edmondson instantly looked at home in the car in the first fast forest stage on Friday morning where they scored their maiden career stage win to claim the rally lead.

After two further stage wins through the rest of Friday, Solberg took a lead of 12.4 seconds into Saturday when, despite any road position advantage over the WRC’s top drivers now being reduced, he won four more tests and extended his advantage to 21.1s over local hero Ott Tänak (Hyundai).

On Sunday, rather than be overawed by the occasion or the arrival of rain on the stages, Solberg took two more stage wins in the first two tests – taking his tally for the weekend to nine – before a third-fastest time in the rally-ending Power Stage was enough for him and Edmondson to secure one of the most remarkable victories seen for many years by 25.2s.

Solberg’s previous best finish was fourth during a first stint driving Rally1 machinery. He joins his father Petter (the 2003 World Rally Champion with Subaru) as a winner in the WRC and is the third youngest driver to ever win a round, behind his team-mate Kalle Rovanperä and Team Principal Jari-Matti Latvala.

He also becomes the 16th driver to win behind the wheel of a Toyota car, his victory bringing up a century of victories wins for the Japanese manufacturer since Walter Boyce triumphed in the inaugural season of the WRC in 1973 at the Press-on-Regardless Rally in the United States.

Rovanperä couldn’t match the form that had taken him to victory in the WRC’s last three visits to Estonia but did win the Power Stage and finished second to Solberg in the Super Sunday classification, to scoreing valuable extra points alongside fourth position overall with co-driver Jonne Halttunen.

Once more tasked with running first on the road and sweeping the loose gravel stages on Friday, Elfyn Evans also had a strong final day with co-driver Scott Martin, gaining sixth overall and finishing fourth on Super Sunday and fifth in the Power Stage to leave just one point behind the championship lead. TGR-WRT continues to lead the manufacturers’ standings by 52 points.

Takamoto Katsuta and Aaron Johnston had been running ahead of Evans until the penultimate stage but ultimately had to retire before the final test due to a mechanical issue. Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen finished seventh in their TGR-WRT2 entry, building their feeling and pace on fast roads after an early mechanical issue was resolved on Friday lunchtime.

In Solberg’s absence from the WRC2 category this weekend, two more GR Yaris Rally2 drivers finished on the class podium, with Estonian driver Georg Linnamäe (RedGrey) securing second on home soil and Finland’s Roope Korhonen (Rautio Motorsport) taking third.

Quotes:
Akio Toyoda (TGR-WRT Chairman) 
“Oliver, Elliott, congratulations on your victory!
It was three years ago in Belgium when I met Oliver in a Hyundai driving racesuit at the podium. When he got out of the i20, he spotted the legend, Juha Kankkunen. Determined to take a photo with the legend, he handed me his mobile phone and asked me to take the photo. I bent down and took a picture of him and Juha. Afterward, his father said “thank you” to me, but I think I only got a shy smile from him… There is still a video of that moment, which I will post on my official Instagram. I took today’s victory by Oliver as a ‘thank you’ for three years ago. If he wins next time while I’m on site, I will rush over to him, so I hope he will take a photo with me and if Juha is there, I will ask him to take the photo!

I’ve heard from the team that Juha has been giving Oliver various pieces of advice as it was his first time to compete with the GR YARIS Rally1. I am very grateful to Juha. I believe they will take another nice photo together, this time with Oliver in a TOYOTA GAZOO Racing overalls.

The next rally is our home rally. We will put on the best performance for the people of Jyväskylä who always support us. I’m counting on everyone in the team!”

Juha Kankkunen (Deputy Team Principal) 
“This has been such an unbelievable weekend from Oliver. I think I felt more nervous watching him than he was behind the wheel. It was such a very clean drive against some really experienced drivers. Anyone would feel a bit of pressure when such drivers are pushing hard behind you, but he handled it so very well. It’s been a pleasure for us to give him this opportunity and to see him take it so well, and for this to be the 100th win for Toyota too. It was also good that Kalle could win the Power Stage today, and now we will concentrate on Rally Finland and keep working to be strong there on our home rally.”

Elfyn Evans (Driver car 33) 
“It’s been a tough weekend. Of course, our road position did hamper us a bit on Friday but I also think we didn’t have the speed to challenge like we wanted to. We tried our best today and scored a few extra points but we can’t be too satisfied at the end of the weekend. I’m looking forward to Rally Finland like always and we’ll keep working together with the team to find a bit more speed there.”

Kalle Rovanperä (Driver car 69) 
“We kept pushing this weekend and trying everything we can, and at least we could take full points from the Power Stage. Overall though it’s clear that I don’t currently have the pace we want on gravel with this year’s package. There are no excuses and we will keep working on it with the team, keep pushing and trying to find something more for Rally Finland, which we will look forward to like every year.”

Takamoto Katsuta (Driver car 18) 
“We have been managing something on the car since yesterday and unfortunately today it got worse, so the decision was taken to retire before the Power Stage. Performance-wise we were not so far away here but it was enough in this kind of very fast event that we couldn’t challenge at the front. We will keep working to make another step forward for Rally Finland which is important for myself and the team.”

Sami Pajari (Driver car 5) 
“It’s been a tricky rally. Our chances for a good result went with the issue on the first forest stage on Friday, but at least the team could solve the problem and after that I’ve been able to enjoy it and have some good times. The start position was tricky for the last two days so it was more about learning and trying to take all the experience, which is still the main target this year. The feeling was quite good and I’m looking forward to going again at Rally Finland.”

Oliver Solberg (Driver car 99) 
“It’s been the most amazing weekend. I’m feeling so overwhelmingly happy, after so many years of dreaming and working for this moment. I want to say a big thank you to Toyota for giving me this opportunity and the chance to prove myself and have fun driving this amazing car. Thank you to the test team who helped me get so comfortable. I also never thought I’d get to celebrate on a podium with Juha, who has been a hero of mine since I was a kid and one I’ve been looking up to together with my father. Now this weekend he has been supporting me so well, keeping me calm and telling me what to do. I’ve never had such a good time in my life, so thank you.”

PROVISIONAL FINAL CLASSIFICATION, RALLY ESTONIA 
1 Oliver Solberg/Elliott Edmondson (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1) 2h36m35.1s
2 Ott Tänak/Martin Järveoja (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) +25.2s
3 Thierry Neuville/Martijn Wydaeghe (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) +48.3s
4 Kalle Rovanperä/Jonne Halttunen (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1) +55.6s
5 Adrien Fourmaux/Alexandre Coria (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) +1m33.0s
6 Elfyn Evans/Scott Martin (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1) +1m43.4s
7 Sami Pajari/Marko Salminen (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1) +2m55.6s
8 Mārtiņš Sesks/Renārs Francis (Ford Puma Rally1) +3m36.0s
9 Josh McErlean/Eoin Treacy (Ford Puma Rally1) +5m29.8s
10 Grégoire Munster/Louis Louka (Ford Puma Rally1) +5m57.5s
Retired Takamoto Katsuta/Aaron Johnston (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1) 
(Results as of 12:30 on Sunday, for the latest results please visit www.wrc.com)
 

2025 FIA World Rally Championship for drivers after round 8: 
1 Ott Tänak 162 points
2 Elfyn Evans 161
3 Sébastien Ogier 141
4 Kalle Rovanperä 138
5 Thierry Neuville 114
6 Adrien Fourmaux 71
7 Takamoto Katsuta 63
8 Oliver Solberg 52
9 Sami Pajari 38
10 Grégoire Munster 19
 

2025 FIA World Rally Championship for manufacturers after round 8: 
1 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team 399 points
2 Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team 347
3 M-Sport Ford World Rally Team 111
4 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WRT2 68
 

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Rally Finland (July 31-August 3) is the fastest rally on the calendar, run over smooth gravel roads containing many jumps. It’s also a home rally for TGR-WRT, which has its headquarters close to the service park in Jyväskylä.

 

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New Zealand claimed the win in the thrilling three-boat winner-takes-all final on Sunday (20 July) in the Portsmouth edition of the Sail Grand Prix series.

The Black Foils, led by three-time Olympic sailing medallist Peter Burling, won a few boat lengths ahead of the GBR team sailing in their home waters, with the Swiss team, in their first-ever SailGP final, finishing third.

New Zealand now lead the annual series on 54 points, with five events to go until the Grand Final in Abu Dhabi in November, with Australia’s Flying Roos in second (52 points) and Spain in third (51 points). GB are just one point behind in fourth.

More to follow…