New Delhi: Thirty sportspersons and support staff across disciplines were found to be COVID-19 positive after 741 precautionary tests were conducted at the National Centres of...
New Delhi: Within 20 days, Haryana’s para javelin thrower Sumit Antil has broken the world record twice in the F-64 category. On Friday, in his sixth...
Patiala: Kamalpreet Kaur’s one legal throw in the Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships on Friday rewrote the women’s discus throw national record and earned her a...
Patiala: Athlete Avinash Sable on Wednesday set a new national record in the men’s 3000m steeplechase event in the ongoing Federation Cup. The 26-year-old Avinash recorded...
Patiala: Long jumper M. Sreeshankar of Kerala on Tuesday booked a place in this year’s Olympic Games with a national record leap of 8.26 metres in...
New Delhi: The pressure will be on India’s top athletes to achieve Tokyo Olympic Games qualification standards during the Senior National Federation Cup athletics meet starting...
New Delhi: Two leading athletes — one of them an Asian Games medallist – have failed dope tests for performance enhancing drugs, said Navin Aggarwal, director...
London: The 2022 World Championship will end with the women’s 4x400m relay, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe hassaid. World Athletics announced on International Women’s Day that they...
New Delhi: Patiala: India’s middle and long distance coach Nikolai Snesarev of Belarus was on Friday found dead in his hostel room at the National Institute...
Patiala: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra began the 2021 season with an outstanding performance and a new national mark — of 88.07 metres — in the...
New Delhi: Star Indian sprinter Hima Das ran her first competitive race in more than a year and won a gold in the women”s 200m in...
Patiala: Sprinter Dutee Chand will skip Thursday’s second leg of the one-day Indian Grand Prix Meet at Patiala’s National Institute of Sports (NIS) campus due to...
Monaco: Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya has set a new 5km road world record, completing the Monaco Run in 14 minutes and 43 seconds. Sunday’s performance by...
Dubai: Indian para-athletes continued their good show at the 12th Fazza International World Para Athletics Grand Prix winning five medals, including two golds, on the second day...
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal chaired a meeting of his cabinet on Wednesday night where a decision was taken to appoint World Championship sprinter...
Guwahati: Uttarakhand’s 16-year-old Reshma Patel broke a national record for the second time in a fortnight when she won the girls under-18 5000m event in the...
New Delhi: The sports ministry has approved the appointment of Belarussian coach Nikolai Snesarev as the middle and long-distance coach of the Indian athletics team. Snesarev...
Beijing: The 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, the capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province, has been postponed to March 2023, the governing body...
New Delhi: Para-athletics coach Gajender has tested positive for novel coronavirus, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) informed on Tuesday. Gajendra, who is the husband of para-athlete...
New Delhi: Athletics Federation of India on Friday confirmed the appointment of the vastly experienced Radhakrishnan Nair as Indian Athletics’ chief coach. The 62-year-old has been...
New Delhi: Eight track and field athletes, including Dutee Chand and KT Irfan, have been included in the core group of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme...
New Delhi: Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw produced a stunning run over in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2020 held to clock the second fastest women’s time ever...
New Delhi: Athletics Federation of India’s High Performance Director Volker Herrmann, whose contract was extended by the Sports Ministry till the end of 2024 Olympics, has...
New Delhi: World record holders Brigid Kosgei and Ababel Yeshaneh have been added to the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon women’s field. The 16th edition of this...
New Delhi: Adille Sumariwalla on Saturday was re-elected as Athletics Federation of India (AFI) president while former athlete Anju Bobby George was elected as the senior...
New Delhi: Some of the world’s top runners are expected to take part in the prestigious Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on November 29, with the organisers...
New Delhi: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has finalised its deferred calendar for the year 2020-21 wherein the competitions will resume with 1st National Open...
Nairobi: Kenyan long-distance runner Patrick Siele has been handed a ban of three years and six months by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping. The...
Rome: World record holder Armand Duplantis of Sweden produced the highest-ever pole vault mark in an outdoor event as he cleared 6.15-meters to take the win...
New Delhi: National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand on Wednesday said that holding a number of shorter leagues between players in each sport can compensate for the...
New Delhi: “Doors might be closed not locked”, said double Olympic 800 meters champion Caster Semenya after she lost her long-running legal battle against regulations requiring...
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Saturday announced that it has extended the contracts of nine foreign athletics coaches, including that of high performance director Volker...
Brussels: Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan both broke the one-hour world record at the Memorial Van Damme meet. The meet is part of...
Vienna: Ivona Dadic came out with this year’s highest-scoring performance in heptathlon and tallied a world-leading 6,419 points to win the title at the Austrian Combined Events...
Kingston: Usain Bolt has tested positive for coronavirus days after partying with guests, including England and Manchester City footballer Raheem Sterling, for his 34th birthday in...
Paris: World 10,000m champion Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda announced the return of international athletics with a sensational world 5000m record of 12:35.36 at the Diamond League...
Mumbai: Olympic Marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge has agreed to become Procam International’s Sunfeast India Run As One ambassador. Community, Social Impact & Wellness are at the...
