PATNA Animesh Kujur bettered his own meet record in 200m to secure his first set of sprint double gold medals in the Indian Open under-23 athletics meet at the Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna on Monday (September 30, 2024). Kujur showed complete domination to outshine his opponents as he clocked 20.65, which was better than…
Arjun Pradeep broke the under-20 men’s 400m and 400m hurdles meet records. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh Thiruvananthapuram’s Arjun Pradeep broke the 10-year-old under-20 men’s 400m hurdles meet record in the 68th Kerala State junior athletics championships which concluded at the Calicut University Stadium here on Sunday. Arjun had earlier bettered the 19-year-old 400m meet…
Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra says nothing went wrong in his silver-winning performance in the Paris Olympics final earlier this year and Pakistani Arshad Nadeem emerged champion as the “day belonged to him”. Chopra became the first Indian track-and-field athlete to win two successive Olympic medals by clinching a silver with a throw of…
Quietly, Jashbir Nayak has made rapid progress in the decathlon in about a year’s time. The Odisha athlete, who secured a silver medal with 6443 points in the Indian Open under-23 championships in Chandigarh last year, improved his performance significantly to win the gold this year in Patna with a new meet record — boasting…
Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on November 9, 2024 roped in Jan Zelezny, one of the greatest the sport has produced, as coach to help prepare him for the upcoming season. | Photo Credit: AP Just days after he penned a heartfelt note of thanks to long-time coach Klaus Bartonietz, Neeraj Chopra on Saturday…
Vismaya (right) was a star of the Indian 4x400m women’s relay team that won the gold at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta | Photo Credit: File photo V.K. Vismaya, who anchored the Indian women’s 4x400m relay team to gold at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, has tested positive for dope. The 27-year-old quartermiler was…
After 2018 Asian Games gold medallist V.K. Vismaya, 21-year-old quartermiler Summy has also tested positive for a banned substance. According to sources, the Services athlete, who achieved her personal best of 53.18 in the heats before winning a silver with 53.46 at the National Federation athletics meet in Bhubaneswar in May last, was tested out-of-competition…
Alphonsa’s Akhila Raju bettered the women’s discus throw record by more than six metres. Photo: Stan Rayan | Photo Credit: Stan Rayan Maharaja’s V.S. Bhavika (left), the championship’s fastest woman, finished with a sprint double taking the 200m too. Photo: Stan Rayan | Photo Credit: Stan Rayan Idukki’s Benjamin Babu, a distance runner who developed…
Several up-and-coming athletes, including under-20 National record holder pole vaulter Dev Meena and South Asian junior championships silver medallist 100m hurdler Sabita Toppo, promise quality action in the 39th National junior athletics championship starting here on Saturday. With the Kalinga Stadium buzzing due to the presence of around 2000 athletes from four age groups, the…
In April 2022, the legendary Carl Lewis put out a blunt statement on social media platform X (then Twitter) that long jump was the hardest event in track and field. “There have been 5 male world record holders [sic: breakers] in the long jump since 1936,” Lewis said. “The present outdoor record is 31 years…
