Servin Sebasthiyan, the sole Indian in action, finished a lowly 31st in the men’s 20km race walk event at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday. The 25-year-old finished with a timing of 1:23:03, with almost a five-minute gap between him and gold-medallist Caio Bonfim of Brazil, who clocked 1:18:35. ALSO READ | Sachin…
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will be making a bold shift at this month’s World Athletics Championships by trading her signature 400 metres hurdles event for the flat 400 in a move reflecting her competitive spirit and insatiable hunger for growth. The 26-year-old American has already rewritten the hurdles record books, with six world records in her primary…
Olympic pole vault gold medallist Nina Kennedy pulled out of the world championships on Friday with a strained muscle in a “brutal” setback having just recovered from a hamstring operation. The Australian, who is also the world champion, had spoken this week about her battle to recover from surgery in time for the championships in…
Karsten Warholm will be going all guns blazing for a record-extending fourth 400 metres hurdles world title in Tokyo this month, but the Norwegian will have his work cut out with two other generational talents in the field. Between them, Olympic champion Rai Benjamin, 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos and Warholm hold the 24…
Gabby Thomas is set to miss this month’s World Athletics Championships due to an Achilles injury, the sprinter confirmed on Tuesday. The Olympic gold medallist in 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m at the Paris 2024 Olympics has been struggling with the injury since May and suffered a setback in July. “I understand that it will be…
The senior selection committee of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) met on Thursday but pushed the team announcement for next month’s World Championships to Saturday as it awaits clarity on athletes in borderline cases who could end up making the cut. A few Indians like javelin thrower Rohit Yadav and 35km race walker Sandeep…
Olympic champion Sifan Hassan has confirmed her decision to skip the world athletics championships in Tokyo next month after deciding to take part in this weekend’s Sydney marathon. Hassan, who won the Olympic marathon in Paris last year, has represented the Netherlands at every world championships since 2015, winning six medals including her 1,500-10,000 metres…
No Indian athlete could achieve the entry standard for next month’s World Championships at the 64th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships, as the domestic meet, which was the final opportunity for direct qualification to Tokyo, concluded in Chennai on Sunday. Before the competition, Neeraj Chopra (defending men’s javelin throw champion), Parul Chaudhary (women’s 3000m steeplechase),…
For athletes looking to push themselves to the limit to have a shot at qualifying for next month’s World Championships, the rain-affected third day of the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai was a total nightmare. Tejas Shirse clinched the men’s 110m hurdles gold on Friday but the National…
Since his return from a knee injury sustained during training in April last year and the subsequent surgery in Qatar, India’s top long jumper Murali Sreeshankar has been having a good run. The 26-year-old from Kerala has won all three International meets he has participated in since July. His best has been the 8.13m jump…