Gukesh Youngest Ever To Win Candidates Tournament, Tan Wins Women's By 1.5 Points

Chess.com— After 14 rounds and over three weeks of play, 17-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament and is the youngest player in history to qualify for the FIDE World Championship.

Chess.com—Gukesh Leads Candidates Before Last Round, Tan A Draw Away From Winning Women's. 17-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju has taken the sole lead of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament with one round to go after exacting revenge against GM Alireza Firouzja in round 13.

Scroll.in—Chess: Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest winner in history of Candidates tournament. Gukesh held Hikaru Nakamura to a draw in the final round to win the 2024 Chess Candidates.

CNN—Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir wins London Marathon women’s elite race and breaks women’s-only world record. It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...