Indian Sports Calendar June 2024: Major events to look forward to in third week

India’s golden boy Neeraj Chopra will compete at the Paavo Nurmi Games

With the Paris Olympics 2024 drawing close, only few events are left in the Indian Sports Calendar. Several Indian athletes are still in contention to qualify for Paris 2024, while some athletes will use these events to wrap up their preparation for the Summer Games.

For Indian archers, the Archery World Cup in Antalya will be the last World Cup before teams can qualify through rankings. Both Indian teams are more or less secured of a ranking spot via the world rankings route until some disaster happens. Neeraj Chopra will also be in action this week at the Paavo Nurmi Games.

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The Indian men’s cricket team are also in action at the Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup and have already secured their spot in the Super 8 stage. Meanwhile, back home the South African women are touring India for a full-fledged bilateral series. The Asian Fencing Championships will also be taking place this week.

Major events to watch in June third week of Indian Sports Calendar

Archery

After failing to grab a quota in the final World Olympic qualifier, the Indian recurve teams will have the last chance via world rankings. The women’s team are currently in pole position to qualify via rankings and a good run at the World Cup can seal the deal for them. The men are assured of a ranking quota.

• June 18-23: Archery World Cup Stage 3, Antalya

Athletics

Neeraj Chopra will be in action this week at the Paavo Nurmi Games. The reigning Olympic, World and Asian champion will be returning to the field after taking some time off due to injury concerns. Apart from that there are also other athletics events lined up this week.

• June 18: Paavo Nurmi Games
• June 19-20: JBL Fest, Slovakia
• June 22: Atleticageneve, Switzerland
• June 22-23: XXXIII Qoasanov Memorial, Kazakhstan

Badminton

After the BWF 500 Australian Open, the badminton caravan moves to Chinese Taipei for the BWF 100 Kaohsiung Masters 2024. While several top shuttlers are expected to rest or continue their preparation for Paris Olympics 2024 elsewhere, young Indian shuttlers will be in action.

• June 18-23: Kaohsiung Masters 2024

Beach Volleyball

The Continental Cup will be taking place in Ningbo, China. India will be participating in this event, which will also serve as an Olympic qualifier.

• June 16-23: Beach Volleyball Continental Cup

Chess

• June 9-21: Asian Youth Chess Championships 2024 (Ongoing)

Cricket

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 enters the knockout stages with the ‘Super 8’ round set to start this week. India have already qualified for the Super 8 stage and are paired in Group 1 alongside defending champions Australia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

ALSO READ: ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Super 8 full schedule

Meanwhile, the Indian women’s team will continue with ODI series against South Africa women. The Indian women in Blue are also set to host the Protea women in a one-off Test match followed by a three-match T20I series in Chennai.

• June 1-29: ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 (Ongoing)
• June 16-09 July: South Africa Women Tour of India (Ongoing)

Fencing

The Fencing Asian Championships will begin this week. Indian fencers will look to do well here. The focus will be on Bhavani Devi to improve her colour of medal from the last edition.

• June 22-27: Asian Fencing Championships

Golf

Aditi Ashok will be the sole Indian participating in the Women’s PGA Championships. There are also other Indian golfers who will be in action this week.

• June 20-23: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
• June 20-23: 66th Kolon Korea Open Golf Championships
• June 21-23: Czech Ladies Open 2024
• June 20-3: KLM Open, Netherlands

Para Sports

The Indian para shuttlers will be in action this week in Scotland. Meanwhile, the Powerlifting World Cup will be taking place this week in Georgia.

• June 18-23: 4-Nation Para Badminton International, Scotland
• June 20-26: Para Powerlifting Tbilisi World Cup 2024

Sailing

The Indian sailors will be in action at the Keelboat Cup in Taiwan.

• June 19-25: 2024 ASAF Keelboat Cup, Penghu, Taiwan

Shooting

The Indian shotgun contingent is currently participating at the ISSF World Cup 2024 in Lonato, Italy. The tournament ends on June 19 (Tuesday). This will be the final Shotgun event before the Paris Olympics.

• June 10-19: Shotgun ISSF World Cup 2024, Lonato (Ongoing)

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Sports Climbing

The Olympic qualifier series will be taking place this week in Hungary.

• June 20-23: Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest

Swimming

The Indian swimmer will be in action and will look to breach the automatic qualification mark for the Olympics.

• June 16-21: French Elite Championships

Table Tennis

Several Indian paddlers will participate at the WTT Contender Lagos. They will look to do well and win titles in Nigeria.

• June 19-23: WTT Contender Lagos

Tennis

Yuki Bhambri and Rohan Bopanna will be in action with their respective doubles partners at the ATP 500 tournaments.

• June 17-23: Halle Open (ATP 500)
• June 17-23: Queen’s Club Championships (ATP 500)

ALSO READ: Confirmed: Rohan Bopanna will play doubles with N. Sriram Balaji at 2024 Paris Olympics

Wrestling

The U-17 and U-23 Asian Championships will start this week. India has done well in this event and will look to repeat their past performance.

• June 22-30: Asian U17 and U23 Championships

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