Olympic champion Noah Lyles will renew his rivalry with Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson when the pair take to the track for what promises to be a 100m race to remember at the Diamond League meet in Chorzow on Saturday. As athletes continue to fine-tune their form ahead of September’s World championships in Tokyo, Lyles headlines a…
Gulveer Singh during a practice session at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP/The Hindu Gulveer Singh during a practice session at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP/The Hindu Source link
Preparations for the World Para Athletics Championships are already underway and on schedule, with the laying of Mondo tracks in both the competition venue and training area set to be completed by September 1, Paralympic Committee of India president Devendra Jhajharia said on Monday. India is hosting the global para-athletics showpiece for the first time…
In the absence of several top names, including double Olympic medallist and World champion Neeraj Chopra, due to varied reasons, the focus will be on javelin throwers Annu Rani and Sachin Yadav, long jumpers Murali Sreeshankar and Shaili Singh and sprinter Animesh Kujur as the Kalinga Stadium gears up to host the country’s maiden World…
Olympic 5,000-metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen is set to miss this month’s Diamond League meetings in Poland and Belgium as he recovers from injury, his spokesperson said on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Norwegian had been scheduled to run the 1,500 metres in Brussels on August 22 and was also listed for the Silesia meeting in Poland on…
National record holder Annu Rani registered her first 60m-plus throw in more than a year as she won the javelin title at the 8th International Wiesław Maniak Memorial meet in Szczecin, Poland on Wednesday. Rani, who will turn 33 on August 29, sent her spear to a season best of 62.59m to take the gold…
US sprinter Gabby Thomas announced on X that she hadn’t confirmed her participation in the Lausanne Diamond League hours after the event confirmed her presence. The Swiss event’s organisers had put out a statement on their website earlier in the day confirming Thomas’ presence in the Women’s 200m roster. “Noah Lyles, Kenny Bednarek, and Gabrielle…