Boxing great MC Mary Kom will lead a five-member Oversight Committee that will probe sexual harassment charges against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan...
New Delhi: The aggrieved grapplers called off their protest late on Friday night after getting assurances from the government that their grievances would be addressed, the...
In a letter written by Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia, they requested that the IOA immediately appoint a committee to...
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said on Thursday that the allegations levelled by wrestlers against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and its chief are serious...
Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia accused Brij Bhushan Singh, BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh of running the Wrestling Federation of India in an arbitrary manner....
Vinesh Phogat won India’s first medal at the ongoing 2022 Wrestling World Championships in Belgrade on Wednesday after she clinched bronze in the women’s 53kg event....
New Delhi: Vinesh Phogat on Saturday said she nearly quit wrestling after failing a second time to win a medal at the Olympics in Tokyo before...
Birmingham: After winning the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games 2022, Vinesh Phogat said that she will try to perform better in the upcoming competitions. Indian...
Birmingham: Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Vinesh Phogat and Naveen won wrestling golds as India finished with 12 medals in 12 events at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Dahiya,...
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...
Warsaw: India’s Vinesh Phogat won two bouts on Friday to enter the 53kg freestyle final of the Poland Ranking Series wrestling. She will face Khrystyna Bereza...
Sofia: India’s Seema Bisla won a quota place in women’s 50 kg freestyle wrestling for Tokyo Olympics after she entered the final of World Olympic qualifiers...
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: Living up to the expectations, star Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat won her second gold medal in as many weeks with a dominant win in the...
New Delhi: Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat outplayed European bronze medallist Vanese Kaladzinskay of Belarus 10-8 to win the women’s 53kg freestyle title in the Outstanding Ukrainian...
New Delhi: The sports ministry has sanctioned a 40-day training camp for wrestler Vinesh Phogat along with her personal coach Woller Akos, her sparring partner Priyanka...
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju is hopeful that the country will be able to conduct sporting competitions by early next year. Sporting action in...
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday announced an enhancement in the prize money in four of the seven categories of the National Sports Awards....
New Delhi: Top woman wrestler Vinesh Phogat has tested positive for COVID-19 but is asymptomatic. Selected for this year’s Khel Ratna award, the Asian and Commonwealth...
New Delhi: The national camp for women’s wrestlers, that was scheduled to be held at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Lucknow from September...
New Delhi: Star paddler Manika Batra has said the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is an added responsibility on her to further stride ahead and bring...
New Delhi: Star cricketer Rohit Sharma and decorated woman wrestler Vinesh Phogat were among the four athletes recommended on Tuesday for this year’s Rajiv Gandhi Khel...
New Delhi: Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been put in contention for ‘Khel Ratna’ while World Championship medallists Rahul Aware and Olympic-bound Deepak Punia were nominated...
New Delhi: World Championship bronze medallist Vinesh Phogat is set to be nominated for Khel Ratna for the second year in a row while Rio Olympic...
New Delhi: Path-breaking tennis ace Sania Mirza takes pride in the fact that many of India’s sporting stars, outside cricket, are women even though she believes...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke to India’s top athletes, including cricket stars such as current captain Virat Kohli, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly...
New Delhi: The athletes are playing the waiting game for now but coaches involved with India’s Olympic-bound bunch have already put their thinking hats on to...
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: Sakshi Malik claimed a silver while Vinesh Phogat dominated her bronze medal play-off after losing to nemesis Mayu Mukaida as Indian women team registered...
New Delhi: Vinesh Phogat yet again fell to Japanese nemesis Mayu Muakida to go out of the gold medal race but Sakshi Malik will fight for...
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: Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat, badminton queen PV Sindhu and boxing great MC Mary Kom will compete for the inaugural BBC Indian sportswoman of the...
New Delhi: Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat has raised questions about the manner in which Padma awards are given to sportspersons, terming the process as an “unfair...
Lucknow: Two-time World Cadet champion Sonam Malik stunned Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik while another promising junior Anshu Malik knocked out World Championship medallist Pooja...
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...
Jalandhar: World Championships bronze-medallist Vinesh Phogat and Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik will be the star attractions among women in the 2019 Senior National Wrestling Championships,...
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: An Olympic berth already secured, World championship bronze medallist wrestler Vinesh Phogat says she has unfinished business to attend to in 2020 Tokyo. The...
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): Reigning junior world champion Deepak Punia on Saturday became the fourth Indian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics after moving to the 86kg semifinals...
