Daegu: American Bernard Lagat ran like "a million bucks" to win his 5,000 meters heat at the world championships on Thursday, while Britain's Mo Farah managed to stay out of trouble in a physical second heat to cruise into the final. Berlin champion and world record holder Kenenisa Bekele, who returned from a two-year injury lay-off only to limp out of the 10,000 on Sunday, had decided not to run...
10:17 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: A memorable meeting " marked by a late surge and a stumble " could be the start of a robust rivalry between Grenada's Kirani James and American LaShawn Merritt. James leaned across the line on Tuesday to win the gold medal in the 400 meters at the world championships, upstaging the reigning titleholder, who had grab the back of the teenager's jersey to prevent himself from falling....
11:49 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: India's Vikas Gowda finished seventh after a creditable effort of 64.05m in the men's discus throw but Mayookha Johnny failed to qualify for the finals in women's triple jump in the World Athletics Championships here on Tuesday. Appearing in his maiden discus throw finals in World Championships in three attempts, Gowda hurled the disc to his season's best of 64.05m, which he recorded in his third attempt,...
06:56 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: American training partners Carmelita Jeter and Jason Richardson were two unlikely gold medalists at the athletics world championships on Monday. Jeter because, well, nobody beats the Jamaicans in the 100 meters at major meets these days. And Richardson because he was an afterthought in the highly anticipated 110 hurdles matchup. He originally captured silver but was stunningly bumped up to champion when Cuban world-record holder Dayron Robles...
11:36 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: The double-amputee sprinter known as the "Blade Runner" is steadily stealing Usain Bolt's stage at the world championships. Bounding along on his carbon-fiber blades, Oscar Pistorius is proving he indeed belongs on the same track at major meets as able-bodied athletes. On Sunday, in his opening heat of the 400 meters, the South African finished third in 45.39 seconds to advance to the following day's semifinals. Although...
11:18 AM, Aug 29, 2011
Daegu: In the space of a few seconds on Sunday, Usain Bolt went from confident, preening king of the track to a grimacing, toppled champion. Standing in the blocks ahead of the world championships 100 metres final, he nodded his head, grinned at the camera and looked from side to side at his rivals, shaking his head theatrically. Under pressure from his training partner and new world 100 metres champion...
12:11 AM, Aug 29, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: India's woman long jumper Mayookha Johny finished ninth in World Athletics Championships here on Sunday. Mayookha, who was the third Indian ever to qualify for the final of an individual event, registered her best, 6.37 metres, in the first leap. Her remaining two jumps were 6.31 and 62.6 metres. The 23-year-old's efforts in the final was way behind her performance in the qualification where she leapt to...
08:48 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Daegu: Luckless Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell knows that at age 28 he may have squandered his last real chance at a World Championship title, but he has now fixed his sights on the 2012 London Olympics to find redemption. As the fastest man in the world this year, Powell arrived here as a legitimate contender for the marquee 100 metres but was forced to pull out of the event on...
01:14 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Daegu, South Korea: Usain Bolt brought world-class pizzazz to the athletics world championships on Saturday where one Olympic champion ducked out without completing even a single pole vault and another was in tears after false-starting in her 400 metres heat. Bolt, the world's fastest man, left the rapidly emptying stadium all smiles after posturing his way through a simple 100 metres heat. His grin was matched by the joyful Kenyans...
11:00 PM, Aug 27, 2011
The contingent bagged 11 medals in all, with just one gold that was won by long-jumper Mayookha Johny. ...
09:59 AM, Jul 13, 2011
Kobe, Japan: India grabbed a silver and bronze through Sudha Singh and Tintu Luka respectively on the final day to end their Asian Athletics Championships campaign with just one gold, two silver and seven bronze medals here on Sunday. Sudha, who was bidding to become the first woman to win both Asian Games and Asian Championships, clocked 10:08.52sec in 3000m steeplechase - well below her national record timing of 10:10.77sec...
03:54 PM, Jul 10, 2011
New Delhi: Justice Mukul Mudgal, who was appointed by the sports ministry to probe into the athletics doping fiasco, said that jailed Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot may be questioned in connection with the scandal. The former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Mudgal made it clear that he would investigate into the roles of not only the athletes, doctors and coaches but also...
07:52 PM, Jul 09, 2011
The three athletes who failed the initial test also tested positive in their 'B' samples. ...
10:51 PM, Jul 08, 2011
Kobe, Japan: Discus-thrower Harwant Kaur, middle distance runner OP Jaisha and decathlete Bharat Inder Singh bagged a bronze each as India continued their medal hunt on the second day of the 19th Asian Athletics Championships here on Friday. Commonwealth Games gold medallist discus-thrower Krishna Poonia, however, failed to make it to the podium as she finished fourth. Harwant, who had bagged a silver in the Commonwealth Games last year, could...
05:24 PM, Jul 08, 2011
New Delhi: Acting Indian Olympic Association President Vijay Kumar Malhotra said that Sports Ministry should also share the blame for the doping scandal that rocked athletics, saying that the coaches and doctors allegedly involved in it are its employees. "All the SAI centres are under the Ministry, all the coaches and doctors are under its rolls. So, the Ministry should also take some blame," Malhotra said, reacting to Sports Minister...
01:08 AM, Jul 06, 2011
Mumbai: World athletics has suffered from a lack of high-profile rivalries due to the growing influence of money on the sport, long jump world record holder Mike Powell has told Reuters. Powell had a sustained rivalry with Carl Lewis and it was those duels with the nine-times Olympic gold medallist that pushed him to break Bob Beamon's 23-year world record at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. "Look at what...
02:20 PM, Jul 05, 2011
Mandeep Kaur and Joana Murmu said that they had never taken any banned substance. ...
11:25 PM, Jul 01, 2011
New Delhi: India's leading quarter-milers Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu, two of the six athletes to fail a dope test, have pleaded innocence and asked for their vitamin food supplements to be examined which they said were the cause of their returning positive. Acting Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Vijay Kumar Malhotra has demanded a judicial enquiry into the doping violations and also questioned the role of Sports Authority of...
08:48 PM, Jul 01, 2011
Six track and field athletes, including two Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medalists, flunked dope tests for anabolic steroids in just two days. ...
09:23 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: India's middle distance runner Ghamanda Ram and discus thrower Seema Antil won silver and bronze medals in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix series in the Chinese city of Jiaxiang. According to information received here, Ram missed the 800 metres gold after he was just a fraction of second (0.22s) slower behind reigning Asian Games gold medalist Sadjad Moradi, who finished with a timing of 1:50.47....
11:32 AM, May 23, 2011
