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Asian Indoor Athletics Championships: Jyothi Yarraji, Jeswin Aldrin set national records to win silver medals India's Jyothi Yarraji and Jeswin Aldrin continued their national record-breaking spree and won silver medals in women's 60m hurdles and men's long jump, respectively, at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2023, here on Sunday. Jyothi Yarraji completed her race in 8.13s -- 0.03s faster than her previous record. Yarraji, who also holds the national record in the outdoor women's 100m hurdles event, had topped the qualification on Saturday with a timing of 8.16s. In t...
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships: Jyothi Yarraji, Jeswin Aldrin set national records to win silver medals
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships: Jyothi Yarraji, Jeswin Aldrin set national records to win silver medals
Source: IANS
13/02/2023 10:53:48 AM
World Athletics Championships: Golden boy Neeraj Chopra aims to give his best in final  After qualifying for the final of the World Athletics Championships 2022 javelin throw competition, Indian ace Neeraj Chopra said anyone can throw far on a given day but he will give his 100 per cent in the summit clash on Sunday. Placed in Group A at Hayward Field, Neeraj, the reigning Olympic champion, produced an impressive throw of 88.39 metres in Round 1 and topped Group A of the qualification round to reach the final. Neeraj set the tone in Group A with an 88.39 metre throw ...
World Athletics Championships: Golden boy Neeraj Chopra aims to give his best in final
World Athletics Championships: Golden boy Neeraj Chopra aims to give his best in final
Source: IANS
22/07/2022 1:39:44 PM
World Athletics Championships : Annu Rani reaches javelin throw final India's Annu Rani qualified for the javelin throw final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, the first Indian woman to qualify for the second straight javelin throw final in World Championships. Annu Rani, who had also reached the final Doha edition in 2019 and eventually finished eighth, qualified for the final with a throw of 59.60 metres. She was placed eighth among 12 competitors that have qualified for the final to be held on Friday. Competing in Group B, Annu starte...
World Athletics Championships : Annu Rani reaches javelin throw final
World Athletics Championships : Annu Rani reaches javelin throw final
Source: IANS
21/07/2022 12:46:10 PM
Bajrang Punia obtains UK visa for CWG, will travel to the US for training before Games Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia has received his visa to travel to the United Kingdom for the Commonwealth Games 2022. Bajrang, who will be travelling to the US for training ahead of CWG had obtained his US Visa earlier this month, but his UK visa was awaited, owing to which he was unable to leave for training in the US. The Sports Ministry, through the Ministry of External Affairs, got in touch with the British High Commission to seek the UK Visa for Bajrang, which has now been obtained....
Bajrang Punia obtains UK visa for CWG, will travel to the US for training before Games
Bajrang Punia obtains UK visa for CWG, will travel to the US for training before Games
Source: IANS
9/07/2022 4:00:36 PM
Sable sets 3000m steeplechase national record at Rabat Diamond League meet Indian long-distance runner Avinash Sable broke the national record in the men's 3000m steeplechase for the eighth time as he finished fifth in the Diamond League 2022 event at Rabat in Morocco on Sunday. The 27-year-old Sable was participating in his maiden Diamond League meet and clocked 8 minutes 12.48 seconds, bettering his own national mark by over three seconds. His previous best was 8:16:21 and came at the Indian Grand Prix 2 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in March this year. ...
Sable sets 3000m steeplechase national record at Rabat Diamond League meet
Sable sets 3000m steeplechase national record at Rabat Diamond League meet
Source: IANS
6/06/2022 3:11:28 PM
400m runner Poovamma quits national camp India's leading women's 400m runner MR Poovamma has quit the national camp in Patiala due to an injury, said a source late on Sunday evening. "Due to an injury Poovamma didn't compete in the final selection trials held for today [Sunday] here in Patiala to select two female athletes for the mixed 4x400m relay Indian team," the source told IANS. The development could result in a big setback for the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to field a strong 4x400m mixed r...
400m runner Poovamma quits national camp
400m runner Poovamma quits national camp
Source: IANS
5/07/2021 12:34:12 PM
Last chance to qualify for Olympic: Spotlight on men's, women`s relays The spotlight will be on the women's 4x100m and men's 4x400m relay squads at the five-day National Inter-State Championships starting here on Friday. This will be the last chance for athletes to make the cut for the Tokyo Olympic Games before the June 29 deadline. The goal of the women's 4x400m relay team, comprising Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Archana Suseendran, and S Dhanalakshmi, is to clock 43.05 seconds to win a smooth passage for the Olympics. Only top 16 world ranking tea...
Last chance to qualify for Olympic: Spotlight on men's, women`s relays
Last chance to qualify for Olympic: Spotlight on men's, women`s relays
Source: IANS
25/06/2021 1:09:44 PM
Dutee powers India A to win with national record in Indian GP relay Dutee Chand anchored India A women's 4x100m relay team to gold medal with a national record of 43.37 seconds in the one-day Indian Grand Prix IV here on Monday. Later in the evening, Dutee clocked 11.17 seconds to improve her national 100m record of 11.24 secs which she had clocked in Ranchi in 2019. But she fell short of the Tokyo Olympic qualification time of 11.15 secs. Daneshwari AT clocked 11.48 secs to finish second while Himashree Roy was third with a time of 11.17 secs. R...
Dutee powers India A to win with national record in Indian GP relay
Dutee powers India A to win with national record in Indian GP relay
Source: IANS
22/06/2021 3:24:36 PM
Ethiopian Gidey breaks 10,000m world record Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey clocked 29 minutes 01.3 seconds to break the women's 10,000-metre world record by five seconds during the Ethiopian athletics trials here on Tuesday night. "I expected to run a world record. I would like to try to break the 29-minute [barrier] in 10,000m in future," the 23 years old said in the post-race interaction. Last year, Letesenbet set a world 5000m record of 14 minutes 06.62 seconds. The Ethiopian is the first woman to hold both the ...
Ethiopian Gidey breaks 10,000m world record
Ethiopian Gidey breaks 10,000m world record
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9/06/2021 1:37:39 PM
Sifan shatters women`s 10,000 metres world record Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands ran at a blistering pace to smash the women's 10,000 metres world record, clocking 29 minutes 06.82 seconds here at the FBK Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on Sunday. Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana had set the previous record of 29 minutes 17.45 seconds in the 25-lap event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "Wow, to run this world record here on Sunday in Hengelo is something I could only dream of. It's the perfe...
Sifan shatters women`s 10,000 metres world record
Sifan shatters women`s 10,000 metres world record
Source: IANS
7/06/2021 2:57:04 PM
Diamond League opener moved to England from Morocco This year's Athletics Diamond League will begin in Gateshead, England on May 23 instead of Morocco's capital city Rabat due to Covid-19 restrictions, the organisers have announced. The organisers also confirmed that this year's fixture in Rome will be relocated to Florence, as Rome's Olympic Stadium has been selected to host the Euro 2020 football matches this summer. The date of this year's meeting has also been changed from June 4 to June 10, Xinhua reported. Meanw...
Diamond League opener moved to England from Morocco
Diamond League opener moved to England from Morocco
Source: IANS
17/04/2021 12:11:25 PM
Indian Grand Prix athletics: Dutee, Hima Das win sprints Assam's sprint prodigy Hima Das won the women's 200m race while Odisha's Dutee Chand dominated 100m in the second leg of the Indian Grand Prix meet at Patiala's National Institute of Sports here on Thursday. Hima's winning time of 23.31 seconds in her first race after a long layoff due to back injury could be seen as good performance, but it fell short of Tokyo Olympic qualification time of 22.80 seconds. Hima, the 21-year-old 2018 world junior 400m champion and nati...
Indian Grand Prix athletics: Dutee, Hima Das win sprints
Indian Grand Prix athletics: Dutee, Hima Das win sprints
Source: IANS
26/02/2021 11:56:19 AM