Discus Throw

Gowda going from strength to strength: Carl Lewis

The champion US sprinter says Vikas Gowda finishing 8th in the discus throw final is a sign of good things to come. ...

Gowda finishes a lowly 8th in discus throw

London: India's Vikas Gowda finished eighth in the men's discus throw event in London Olympics with a below-par effort here Tuesday night. United States-based Gowda hurled the 2kg disc to a distance of 64.79m in his first attempt, well below his personal best of 66.28m which he recorded in the run-up to the Games. A personal best would not have been enough for the 29-year-old Indian to have climbed the...  

Go for Glory: Gowda's qualification a big boost

CNN-IBN'S panel of experts discusses Vikas Gowda qualifying for the London Olympics discus final on Monday. ...

Discus thrower Gowda qualifies for the final

London: Vikas Gowda of India has qualified for the men's discus throw final at the London Olympics here on Monday. The US based Indian threw 65.20 metres in his second attempt to make the cut. The automatic qualification standard for the discus final was set at 65m. Ehsan Hadadi of Iran was just behind Gowda with a throw of 65.19m. Gowda became the first Indian to win a medal at...  

I will do better in next Olympics: Poonia

London: Ace discus thrower Krishna Poonia is satisfied with her seventh place finish at the London Games and said she will now aim to do better in the next Olympics in Brazil. Poonia hurled the discus to a distance of 63.62m, which is more than a metre below her personal as well season's best of 64.76m, but she said she was not disappointed with her performance. "It was a disaster...  

Krishna Poonia finishes 7th in discus throw

London: Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia finished a creditable seventh in the women's discus throw while the gold medal was won by Sandra Perkovic of Croatia in the 2012 London Games at the Olympic Stadium here on Saturday. Sandra took the gold with throw of 69.11 metres, a national record, while the silver medal was taken by Darya Pishchalnikova of Russia with 67.56 m and Li Yanfeng of China settled...  

Poonia qualifies for discus final, Seema out

London: India's medal hope Krishna Poonia on Friday qualified for the womens discus throw final round in London Olympics after finishing eighth in the qualification round while her compatriot Seema Antil missed out by a whisker on the first day of track and field events in London. Poonia began with a foul throw but regained her composure to hurl the one-kg discus to 63.54m to finish fifth in Group A...  

Poonia braces herself up for stiff challenge

Discus-thrower Krishna Poonia made a name for herself by winning a gold in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. She followed it up with a bronze at the Asian Games in Guangzhou later that year. The entire country went into frenzy when she became the first Indian woman to win a CWC gold. To boot, she also became the second Indian athlete to win gold in track and field...  

Discus thrower Poonia gets silver in US event

Maui Island: Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia came up with her season's best effort of 63.67 meters to notch up a silver medal at the Altius Track Crew Throwdown Meet on Friday. Competing in her first meet of the season, Krishna went beyond the 62.72-meters mark that decided the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It was also a marked improvement on her 2011 best of 62.25 meters, which...  

Gowda wins silver at Asian Championship

Kobe: Rattled by dope scandals, Indian athletics finally has something to cheer about after discus thrower Vikas Gowda won a silver medal despite a below-par on the opening day of the 19th Asian Championships here on Thursday. National record holder Gowda finished second with an effort of 61.58m, much below his season's best of 64.91, behind Iranian Asian record holder Ehsan Hadadi who also had a below par 62.27m. The...  

Poonia accepts Samuels' challenge

CWG champion Poonia says if the country and his coach permit, she is ready to take on the world champion Samuels in the challenge of supremacy. ...

TN just won't honour this athlete

Athletes who have returned with medals from Doha have been honoured in their state, but some have been unrecognised. ...  

Asiad: Indian eve tests ve for dope

Indian woman athlete Seema Antil has been withdrawn from Asian Games after testing positive for a banned drug. ...