London: Mo Farah announced on Friday he was targeting a return to the track to compete in the 10,000 metres at next year’s Olympic Games. The...
Kolkata: Reigning European 10,000m champion Lonah Salpeter of Israel will be the star attraction in the elite women’s field in the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K here...
Montreal: A key World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) panel has recommended Russia be barred from all sporting competition for four years after accusing Moscow of falsifying laboratory...
Monaco: Eliud Kipchoge, the first man to run a marathon in less than two hours, and 400 metres hurdles world champion Dalilah Muhammad won the World...
Moscow: Yulia Tarasenko was appointed as interim president of Russia’s athletics body following the suspension of previous head Dmitry Shlyakhtin by World Athletics. Tarasenko, the RUSAF...
Monaco: World Athletics announced it had suspended the reinstatement process of Russian athletics and was contemplating expelling the country entirely from the sport due to doping...
Tirupati: Dope testing will be a part of the National Inter-District Junior Athletics Meet (NIDJAM) for the first time in its 17-year-old history, Athletics Federation of...
Tirupati: A record 4500 boys and girls in the under-14 and under-16 age groups from 494 districts will compete in the national inter-district junior athletics meet....
Dubai: India signed off the campaign at the World Para Athletics Championship with their biggest ever haul nine medals – finishing in the 24th position in...
Pune: US Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom has been named the face of the 2019 Bajaj Allianz Pune Half Marathon. Having already set a target of 20,000 registrations...
Dubai: India’s celebrated para high-jumpers Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu qualified for next year’s Tokyo Paralympics after claiming the silver and the bronze medal respectively in...
Dubai: Indian para athlete Nishad Kumar recorded a personal best of 2 metres to claim the bronze medal in men’s high jump T47 final at the...
New Delhi: India sprinter Dutee Chand has been named in the TIME 100 Next, an expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential persons...
Dubai: Promising Yogesh Kathuniya overcame three foul attempts to claim the bronze medal in men’s discus throw F56 final at the World Para Athletics Championships and...
Paris: Former half-marathon world record holder Kenya’s Abraham Kiptum has been given a four-year doping ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit said. The ban follows irregularities that...
Lausanne: Disgraced running coach Alberto Salazar has lodged an appeal against a four-year ban for doping offences, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced. Jeffrey...
Nairobi: Kenyan long-distance runner and reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge has been shortlisted for the World Male Athlete of the Year award. Kipchoge is among...
Dubai: Sundar Singh Gurjar overcame a shoulder injury to defend his World Para Athletics Championships title in the men’s F46 javelin throw event while also securing...
Dubai: Indian duo of Sandeep Chaudhary and Sumit created world records on way to their gold and silver medals respectively in the F64 javelin event of the...
Pune: The second edition of the ‘Bajaj Allianz Pune Half Marathon’ will be held on December 22, the organisers have announced. Apart from the half marathon...
Guntur: Telangana’s G Maheshwari on Wednesday created the sole national record on the final day of the 35th National Junior Athletics Championships here, winning the girls...
Guntur: Haryana’s Rachna marked her shift from being a single-lapper to 800m with a memorable victory in the 35th National Junior Athletic Championships, breaking Tintu Luka’s...
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh sports department has decided to extend insurance cover to all players representing the state at the national level, an official said on Monday....
Katowice (Poland): Twenty years after its formation, the world anti-doping agency WADA meets for its fifth world conference in the Polish city of Katowice from Tuesday to...
Tokyo: Tokyo “will not obstruct” moving next year’s Olympic marathon and race-walking to northern Japan over heat fears, the city’s governor said on Friday, adding that...
Tokyo: Tokyo city officials are in a public feud with the International Olympic Committee over IOC plans made without consulting the city or local organisers to...
Wuhan (China): India added two more gold medals to its kitty with para-athletes Aneesh Kumar, Surendran Pillai and Virender bagging the top honours in their respective...
Brussels: Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort ended her life through euthanasia at the age of 40, Belgian media reported. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium and the...
Wuhan (China): Para-athlete Anandan Gunasekaran scooped two gold medals in the disabled men’s 100m and 400m IT1 events to open India’s medal account at the 7th...
New Delhi: Ethiopians trumped Kenyans in a long-standing rivalry between the two East African middle and long distance running powerhouses as Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu...
New Delhi: Money would be an added motivation for Indian athletes at the 2019 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon. Indian runners would be awarded a bonus of...
New Delhi: Reflected glory is not necessarily a bad thing, there’s a certain pleasure to be derived from it. But after setting pace for Eliud Kipchoge’s...
New Delhi: The fastest woman alive, Carmelita Jeter, believes every record is meant to be broken and an official marathon can be completed under a 2-hour...
Ranchi: Dutee Chand completed a sprint double in the season-ending 59th National Open Athletics Championships, clocking the fastest time in 200m by an Indian this year...
New Delhi: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, quarter-miler Hima Das and sprinter Dutee Chand figured among the list of national campers named by the Athletics Federation...
Ranchi: Shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor broke his own national record to lit up a rainy day in the 59th National Open Athletics Championships. Representing...
Ranchi: Star sprinter Dutee Chand smashed her own national record, clocking 11.22 seconds in the women’s 100m semifinals on her way to the gold medal at...
