A day after securing the 100m title, Chinese Taipei-based Parth Singh, representing Jharkhand, leaped to 7.82m to break the six-year-old men’s under-20 long jump meet record in the National junior athletics championships at the Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday. He jumped more than the World under-20 championships qualifying mark (7.58m). Javelin thrower Himanshu Jakhar, who…
Bhairabi Roy overcame a venue-related confusion to claim the women’s triple jump title, while National record holder pole vaulter Dev Meena finished a disappointing third on the rain-battered opening day of the National Open Athletics Championships at the Birsa Munda Stadium, Morabadi, here on Saturday. Bhairabi, 30, had shifted her training base from Kolkata to…
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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…
Indian athlete Akita Dhyani broke the National Record in the women’s 2000m steeplechase enroute to her first-place finish at the Grand Slam Jerusalem tournament — a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event — on Thursday. The 23-year-old clocked 6:13.92 to claim the top spot while Israel’s Adva Cohen (6:15.20) and Denmark’s Juliane Hvid (6:17.80) took…
National Games discus throw gold medallist Gagandeep Singh was among a slew of athletes across sports who were handed three-year ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) instead of four after they accepted their offence within 20 days of being charged. Representing Services, Singh had won gold in men’s discus with a best throw of…
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…
Two-time Asian Games gold-medallist shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor on Saturday clinched the top position in the third leg of the Indian Grand Prix here and looks set for an exciting Inter-State Senior National Championships in Chennai later this month. The 30-year-old hurled the iron ball to a distance of 18.93 metres at Guru Nanak Stadium…