Birmingham: Bajrang Punia was a class apart while defending his title before Sakshi Malik produced a sensational gold medal winning effort as Indian wrestlers grabbed five...
Tokyo: India capped off its best-ever performance in the Olympics with a haul of seven medals, including a gold. As the Tokyo Olympics come to a...
Tokyo: He did not live up to the sky-high expectations but India’s Bajrang Punia will return from Tokyo with a bronze medal on Olympic debut after...
Tokyo: Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia faced a crushing defeat in the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics at the hands of Haji Aliyev of Azerbaijan in the...
Tokyo: Their remarkable performances in the build-up to the Tokyo Games creating high hopes of multiple medals at the Olympics, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat will...
New Delhi: India’s star badminton player and Rio Games silver medallist PV Sindhu is a front-runner to become one of the two flag-bearers for the Indian contingent at...
New Delhi: Pandemic has disrupted training, says India’s star wrestler Bajrang Punia, who will represent India in the mens 65kg freestyle event in the Tokyo Olympic...
Rome: Decorated wrestler Bajrang Punia on Sunday won a second successive gold medal at the Matteo Pallicone ranking series here as he defeated Mongolia’s Tulga Tumur Ochir...
New Delhi: Indian men’s 65 kg freestyle wrestler Bajrang Punia, who is currently training at the Cliff Kean Wrestling Club in Michigan, US, is planning his...
New Delhi: Mission Olympic Cell has approved a one-month training camp in the USA for wrestler Bajrang Punia, one of India’s biggest medal hopes at the...
New Delhi: The Indian players in the Delhi Capitals squad underwent tests for Covid-19 in Mumbai ahead of their departure to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
New Delhi: Top India batsman Shikhar Dhawan saw it as a historic day of celebration, while former cricketer Mohammed Kaif reminded the country of its culture...
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Tuesday told aspirants for this year’s national sports awards to e-mail their nominations in view of the lockdown to contain...
New Delhi: Star Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia is assured of a top-four seeding in the 65kg category at next year’s Tokyo Olympics even if he skips...
New Delhi: WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, on behalf of the wrestling body, on Monday pledged to donate Rs 11 lakh for the fight against...
New Delhi: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar on Friday donated Rs 50 lakh to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed 17 Indian lives and...
New Delhi: Life comes first, sport can wait. This was the collective view of India’s top Olympic-bound athletes, including stalwarts such as M C Mary Kom...
New Delhi: Star wrestler Bajrang Punia has decided to donate his six months salary towards fight against COVID-19 pandemic and called for postponement of Tokyo Olympics,...
New Delhi: India observed a “janata curfew” as millions of citizens including sports persons stayed at home on Sunday, between 7 am and 9 pm to stop...
New Delhi: The World Cup of shooting became the first major sporting event to be postponed in India due to the global novel coronavirus outbreak, which...
New Delhi: Fears of Coronavirus denied China a chance to compete at the Asian Wrestling Championships, which begins in the Capital on Tuesday. The Indian government...
New Delhi: The Mission Olympic Cell on Monday sanctioned Rs 1.5 crore as financial assistance for training, competition and equipment needs of several athletes, including wrestler...
New Delhi: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will go ahead with the trials in the men’s freestyle 74kg category despite a postponement request from injured Sushil...
New Delhi: Sounding out a warning to his rivals, a fit-again Bajrang Punia has said the wrestling world will see a new avatar of him at...
New Delhi: Dismissing the report that he has sacked his personal coach Shako Bentinidis, star wrestler Bajrang Punia on Friday said the Georgian is very much...
New Delhi: World Championship silver medallist wrestler Deepak Punia has jumped to world number one position in 86kg but Bajrang Punia lost the top rank in the...
New Delhi: Three-time World Championship medallist Bajrang Punia on Tuesday called for wrestling to be made the national sport, insisting that Indian grapplers have consistently won...
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): Rahul Aware won the biggest medal of his career by bagging a bronze while an injured Deepak Punia settled for a silver after pulling...
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): Shrugging off his controversial semifinal defeat, Bajrang Punia bagged his third World Championship medal while Ravi Dahiya made his debut memorable by grabbing a...
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): Bajrang Punia lost his semifinal bout against home wrestler Daulet Niyazbekov under controversial circumstances after he secured his place in the Tokyo Olympics along with...
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): Bajrang Punia qualified for Tokyo Olympics by strolling into the semifinals while Ravi Dahiya joined him with shock victories over his more fancied rivals...
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): A reality check awaits India’s top wrestlers at the World Championships where they will chase not only glory but also Tokyo Olympics qualification, here...
New Delhi: India’s top grappler Bajrang Punia has been handed the top billing in the men’s 65kg freestyle category at the World Championships, slated to begin...
World number one wrestler Bajrang Punia will soon tie the knot with grappler Sangeeta Phogat, youngest of the Phogat sisters, family sources said on Thursday. The...
Deepa Malik receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. Bajrang Punia was absent from the ceremony. Arjuna award winner Ravindra Jadeja was absent from the ceremony...
New Delhi: Paralympic silver-medallist Deepa Malik has become the first Indian woman para-athlete and the oldest to be conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award but...
New Delhi: Personal recognition it might be, but Deepa Malik insists the underlying message of her Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award shouldn’t be lost on anyone....
New Delhi: Ace wrestler Bajrang Punia and para-athlete Deepa Malik have been nominated for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna on Saturday. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is...
New Delhi: Asian and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist wrestler Bajrang Punia was on Friday nominated for the country’s highest sporting honour — the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna...
New Delhi: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has recommended the names of Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. Current...
