Guntur: Kerala's KT Neena qualified for World Youth Championships after winning gold in 5000m race with a new meet mark of 25 min 13.95 sec on the third and final day of the 10th National Youth Athletics Championships here. The World Youth Championships will be held in Ukraine in July.
Neena's team-mates AM Binsy and S Akshaya completed the other two places on the podium as Kerala pipped overnight leaders Haryana by just one point (155-154) to defend their overall title. Haryana continued to apply pressure with more number of wins on the last day's events at Brahmananda Reddy Stadium on Monday but the defending champions fought back with vigour and the tale of identifying this edition's champions went till the last event of the meet - the medley relay.
Another medal sweep by their steeplechasers, an excellent run by half-miler Mohammed Afsal, noteworthy wins by triple jumper Abdulla Aboobacker and hurdler Anjali Jose helped the team to wrest the lead from Haryana.
In the medley relay for girls the Kerala team was trailing at mid-way but the last leg runner Shaharbana Sidhique made a gallant effort to take her team to the flag position. Expectantly Haryana took the gold in the boys' relay but it did not change the position....
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08:54 PM, May 20, 2013
Sally Pearson is unlikely to race again until July after re-injuring her hamstring but the Olympic 100m hurdles champion should be fit to defend her world title in August, Australia head coach Eric Hollingsworth said on Monday. The 26-year-old hurdler suffered what is believed to be a grade-one hamstring tear at the Asian Grand Prix Athletic Championship in Sri Lanka on Sunday after missing the domestic season with the same...
04:46 PM, May 13, 2013
Kingston : Sprint icon Usain Bolt has pulled out of this weekend's Jamaica Invitational with a hamstring strain. The six-time Olympic gold medallist picked up a slight niggle during training last weekend and has decided to sit out the meet as a precaution. "I am disappointed to miss the Kingston meet as I love running in front of my home crowd in Jamaica. I'm told it is only a grade...
01:27 PM, May 02, 2013
Kingston: Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has been ruled out of Saturday's Jamaica International Invitational meeting because of a slight hamstring strain, his agent said on Tuesday. The 100 and 200 metres world record holder felt tightness in training over the weekend and in consultation with Coach Glen Mills decided not to risk anything at this early stage of the season, agent Ricky Simms said. "It's a small strain...
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Boston: A woman's DNA has been found on at least one of the explosive devices used in the Boston bombings, adding a new dimension to the probe into the terror attack that killed three people and wounded over 200 others. The findings, reported by the US media, have raised the possibility of involvement of a woman in the Boston Marathon twin blasts, which is blamed on two Chechen-origin brothers. The...
11:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Jamaica: World and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Melaine Walker has been confirmed for the 100m hurdles at the Jamaica International Invitational (JII) Meet on May 4. Walker will be running the sprint hurdle in a competitive event for the first time since 2006 when she was a student at the University of Texas. She is expected to face off against London Olympic Games 100m hurdles silver medalist Dawn Harper of...
02:36 PM, Apr 24, 2013
London: Ethopian Tsegaye Kebede on Sunday won the London marathon in 2hr 6min 4 sec. Four miles before the finish, the diminutive Kebede had been in fifth position and 49 seconds behind the leader but slowly he reeled in his opponents before overtaking Kenya's Emmanuel Mutai in the last mile. It was a textbook example of how to remain patient and conserve energy until the business end of a marathon...
11:50 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Kingston: World 100 metres champion Yohan Blake has been sidelined for six weeks after medical reports raised concern about an injury sustained at an event in Jamaica last weekend. Blake pulled up clutching his right hamstring in the 100m Saturday at the UTech Classic, while trailing eventual winner Kim Collins at the 50m mark, reports CMC. Blake's injury was originally thought to be a cramp but Timothy Spencer, a member...
11:19 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Boston: Joe Anderson had just crossed the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon when he heard the blasts that killed three people, wounded dozens and terrified thousands of spectators and athletes. The first blast, which blew out the window of a store near the end of the race course at around 2:50 pm (1850 GMT), stunned the throng of people who had gathered in Copley Square for the race's finale....
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09:45 AM, Apr 16, 2013
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09:17 AM, Apr 16, 2013
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08:59 AM, Apr 16, 2013
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08:38 AM, Apr 16, 2013
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11:55 AM, Apr 04, 2013
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10:01 PM, Apr 02, 2013
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12:42 PM, Apr 02, 2013
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07:09 PM, Apr 01, 2013
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12:29 PM, Apr 01, 2013
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