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Raipur, Apr 1 (PTI) Race walker Dasharath Talawar and middle-distance runner Nagini added a gold medal each to table toppers Karnataka's tally while Chhattisgarh's Gajendra Thakur bagged a silver in the men's 800m on Day 8 of the Khelo India Tribal Games here on Wednesday. Dasharath led Karnataka's 1-2 in the men's 10km race walk with a time of 45:13.85s with Darshan Bagadi (46:25.90s) finishing second ahead of Gujarat's Sagarbhai Katara (48:16.09s) at the Kreeda Parisar athletics track in Jagd ...Read More >
Ranchi, Oct 26 (PTI) Sri Lanka's star javelin thrower Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage lived up to the expectations as he easily won gold with a meet record effort even as India topped the final medal table in the SAAF Senior Championships here on Sunday. India and Sri Lanka shared the spoils with eight gold each on the third and concluding day at the Birsa Munda Stadium. Fielding a second-string team, India ended the championships on top with 58 medals (20 gold, 20 silver, 18 bronze). Sri Lanka fini ...Read More >
Finlay Menzies took a bronze medal in the men's 100m T72 final at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi. Menzies, 19, set a personal best of 16.29 seconds in the frame running event as Italian Carlo Calcagni took the gold. Frame running is an adaptive form of running where athletes with co-ordination impairments - such as cerebral palsy - use a three-wheel frame to propel them along. The event will make its debut at the LA 2028 Paralympics. Menzies, from Edinburgh, said: "It fe ...Read More >
Hannah Cockroft called on organisers and athletes to give her "favourite" 400m event greater prominence after scorching to global glory in limited New Delhi company. The nine-time Paralympic champion, 33, added a 17th World Championship gold to her collection with a dominant T34 one-lap triumph in the Indian capital. But with only four athletes on the start line at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, only gold and silver medals were awarded. British teammate and Cockroft's long-term rival Kare Aden ...Read More >
Delhi is bracing for a spell of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Monday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting a generally cloudy sky throughout the day. The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to settle around 32 and 25 degrees Celsius, respectively. The forecast indicates that the wet conditions will continue through the week, with moderate showers until September 2, thunderstorms with rain on September 3, and rain or thundershowers on September 4 and 5. On Sunda ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Jul 17 (PTI) The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Thursday announced the qualification standards for the World Athletics Continental Tour event, scheduled to be held here on August 10. The Continental Tour is an annual series of track and field competitions held under the aegis of World Athletics and it forms the second tier of international one-day meetings after the prestigious Diamond League. The bronze-level Tour meet is below the gold and silver levels. Over 150 athlet ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 17 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh's capital city has secured the third position in the category of urban spaces with population exceeding 10 lakh, while Prayagraj was adjudged the Cleanest Ganga City in the ninth edition of the Swachh Survekshan. Lucknow also became the first city in the state to achieve a 7-star Garbage Free City rating in the 2024-25 survey. Gorakhpur achieved double success, ranking third in the Safai Mitra Surakshit Sheher category and fourth among cities with a population ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Thursday announced the qualification standards for the Indian Open 2025, a World Athletics Continental Tour meet, as per Olympics.com. This will be the first-ever Indian Open and is set to take place at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar from August 10. Athletes aiming to participate in the meet will have to meet the qualifying marks set by the AFI within a specified time period. These entry standards are the minimum ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Fans of Indian athletics got positive news on Saturday as India's two sprinters, Animesh Kujur and Mohmmad Afsal. The former smashed the 100m national record with a prolific timing of 10.18 seconds at the Dromia International Sprint and Relays Meeting in Greece, while the latter also bettered his own national record. Afsal, the Asian Games silver medallist, clocked a timing of 1:44.96 minutes in the Men's 800m race at the Memorial Czeslawa Cybulskiego in Poland. He also became the fir ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has suspended the Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) and two other officers in connection with the shocking deaths of a tigress and her four cubs in the Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary in Chamarajanagar district. Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment Eshwar Khandre recommended the suspensions based on the preliminary findings of a high-level committee headed by Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Kumar Pushkar. The suspension order ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 28: Middle-distance runner Twinkle Chaudhary, a multiple National Games medallist, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for a banned steroid. The 28-year-old, who claimed gold in the women's 4x400m relay at the National Games held in Uttarakhand earlier this year, also secured silver in the 800m and bronze in the mixed 4x400m relay. She tested positive for Methyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid listed as prohibited. According ...Read More >
Hangzhou: India's Vithya Ramraj competes in the Women's 400m Hurdles Final event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.(IANS/Twitter:@ianuragthakur) Taipei, June 8 (IANS) India's impressive run at the Taiwan Athletics Open continued as Rohit Yadav clinched gold in the men's javelin throw on the second day of the event while Vithya Ramraj claimed the top spot on the podium in the women's 400m hurdles here on Sunday. Rohit, a two-time national champion, secured the g ...Read More >
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