New Delhi: Young Khushbir Kaur finished a disappointing 71st in women's 20km race walk after Irfan Kolothum Thodi qualified for London Olympics in men's 20km competition on the second and final day of the IAAF World Race Walking Cup at Saransk, Russia on Sunday. Khushbir, who had bettered the Olympics qualification 'B' standard of 1:38.00 last month in the Federation Cup which was not a London Games qualifying event, clocked...
06:18 PM, May 13, 2012
Bangkok: Indian athletes produced an impressive performance, bagging four gold, one silver and four bronze medals, in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix on Tuesday. MR Poovama won the women's 400m in 52.94 while Sajeesh Joseph came first in the men's 800m in 1:47.78. The men's 4X400m relay team of Joseph Abraham, Jitin Paul, Shake Mortaza and MP Kunhu won gold in 3:08.00 while their women counterparts of...
11:23 AM, May 09, 2012
Kingston: Jamaican Olympic champion Usain Bolt held his nerve after two false starts by competitors and powered to the year's fastest 100 metres at the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday. The 100- and 200-metre world record-holder clocked a dazzling 9.82 seconds in his first individual race of 2012, exploding from the blocks to take control at 40 metres. "It's a good start, I would say," said Bolt, who erased the...
12:57 PM, May 06, 2012
Chandigarh: The oldest marathon runner in the world, Britain-based Fauja Singh, has ended on a high at the age of 101 years - but that is not the end of the road for him. Not yet. As the Indian-origin athlete completed the 26-mile London Marathon on Sunday in a record time of seven hours and 49 minutes, he announced this would be his last race. But he says the London...
05:08 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Kingston: Yohan Blake of Jamaica, the reigning world 100-metre champion, clocked 9.90 seconds in cold and rainy conditions at the UTech Classic athletics meet to set the fastest time in the world so far this year. Blake, who surpassed Darvis Patton's previous world best this year of 10.04, also joined world 100m record-holder Usain Bolt on the Racers Club relay on Sunday that captured the 4x100 relay in 37.82 seconds,...
02:28 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre and the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) were on Friday directed by the Delhi High Court to allow the four suspended women athletes to practice in its coaching centre for the upcoming Olympic Games in London. Allowing the plea of Ashwini Akkunji, Sini Jose, Priyanka Panwar and Tiana Mary Thomas, the gold medal winners in 2010 Commonwealth Games and also in Asian Indoor Championship in 400...
07:56 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Istanbul: Natallia Dobrynska of Ukraine set a new world record in the Pentathlon tallying 5013 points to win the world title on the opening day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships here. Dobrynska, the 2008 Olympic champion, on Friday became the first pentathlete to break the 5,000-point barrier while eclipsing the previous world record of 4991 points set on Feb 15, 1992 by Russian Irina Belova. In addition to the...
05:02 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Not satisfied with the one-year ban handed out to top four Indian quartermilers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, in the doping scandal, the World Anti-Doping has appealed against the decision and pleaded for a two-year sanction on the athletes. Akkunji, her Commonwealth and Asian Games 4X400m relay gold-winning quartet member Sini Jose, Priyanka Panwar and Tiana Mary Thomas were banned for one year, along with...
04:58 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Indian para-athletes have clinched five medals, including one gold, at the second Kuwait International Open Athletics Championship and so far booked four Paralympic quota places. Para-athletes Jagseer Singh, Mahabir Singh, Subbaiah Thirumalai under Grade A and Surjeet Singh under Grade B have made the cut for the London event, a Paralympic Committee of India release stated. Jagseer clinched gold in the long jump event with a leap of...
06:49 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: The appeals hearing on the one-year ban on India's four top quarter-milers, including Asian Games double gold medalist Ashwini Akkunji, before a National Anti-Doping Agency panel was adjourned on Wednesday for January 27. The NADA Appeals panel, headed by Justice (retd) CK Mahajan, fixed January 27 as the date for hearing after the apex anti-doping agency sought more time to study the appeals. Akkunji, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary...
08:29 PM, Jan 18, 2012
After a rewarding 2010, athletics slumped to a low this year, turning out to be the country's dirtiest sport with seven top athletes, including three Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medalists, getting involved in one of India's biggest doping scandals. Asian Games double gold-medalist Ashwini Akkunji and her 4x400m relay teammates Sini Jose and Mandeep Kaur were among the dope offenders, after being caught for using banned steroids in May...
04:41 PM, Dec 29, 2011
The one-man committee comprising of Mukul Mudgal felt that the banned substances were not taken deliberately. ...
03:50 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, several dope-flunked athletes were not penalised for their offences from 2001 to 2008 by their National Sports Federations (NSFs), and this came to light after the NADA anti-doping panel released a list on the orders of the Delhi High Court. Around 120 athletes out of the list of 360-odd, whose names were released on Thursday, were found to have gone unpunished by their respective...
05:47 PM, Nov 18, 2011
The girl from West Bengal has won double gold medals at the National Athletics Championship. ...
08:54 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Kolkata: Preeja Sreedharan and Mayookha Johny lived up to their reputations by clinching gold in women's 10,000m and long jump respectively as the 51st National Open Championships began with below par performances by all the athletes here on Saturday. Forget about achieving a meet record, none of the athletes could get anywhere close to their personal best as the four-day meet got off to a dull start on rain-soaked day...
07:24 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Daegu: Usain Bolt swept away any remaining clouds surrounding his 100m disqualification when he anchored Jamaica to a world record time of 37.04 seconds to retain the world 4x100 metres relay title on Sunday. The double Olympic sprint champion and world record holder teamed up with Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake to better the mark of 37.10 seconds the Jamaicans ran to win gold at the Beijing Olympics...
10:30 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Daegu: Usain Bolt raced to redemption in 19.40 golden seconds on Saturday to retain his world 200 metres title while Anna Chicherova ended Blanka Vlasic's four-year run as high jump world champion. "Believe", Bolt mouthed to the cameras as he celebrated his win. Nobody had stopped believing, even after he was disqualified from the 100 metres final last Sunday, but certainly there was a sense that the natural order had...
06:50 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: Veronica Campbell-Brown ripped Allyson Felix's 200 metres crown from her grip on Friday while another Jamaican scorched up the road to redemption and into the hearts of the Daegu crowd at the world athletics championships. Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, sealed his reputation as the sport's greatest showman as well as its fastest athlete with a peerless display of both charm and chutzpah, powering his way...
08:09 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Daegu: The United States flexed their muscles at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday, harvesting three of the six titles on offer, while Britain finally won an elusive gold medal in Daegu. Kenya extended their dominance of the men's steeplechase and celebrated with some joyous theatrics on the track afterwards and double-amputee Oscar Pistorius produced another momentous achievement, Lashinda Demus in the 400 metres hurdles, 1,500 metres runner Jenny Simpson...
08:58 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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The latest frenzy in news circles has been the state of sports affairs in the country. Well, in our country sports seems to be defined ...
11:10 AM, Sep 01, 2011
