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...
08:54:53 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...
04:46:24 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...
01:27:01 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...
08:46:12 AM May 01, 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...
02:36:27 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...
11:50:27 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...
11:19:46 AM Apr 18, 2013
Kingston: Jamaica's world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake could miss the Jamaica International Invitational on May 4 and the Shanghai Diamond League meeting a fortnight later because of a hamstring injury, his coach Glen Mills said on Tuesday. Mills told Reuters that the right hamstring injury sustained by Blake during a 100 metres race on Saturday at the UTECH Track and Field Classic in Kingston was more serious than originally...
10:59:01 PM Apr 16, 2013
Boston: Two bombs ripped through the crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people, maiming others and injuring more than 100 in what a White House official said would be treated as an "act of terror." It was the worst bombing on US soil since security was tightened after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and President Barack Obama promised to hunt down whoever...
08:38:49 AM Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: He gave India its first medal at the Paralympic Games after finishing second in the Men's High Jump event yet his silver-winning effort could not land him a job with the Sports Authority of India as promised by the former sports minister, Ajay Maken. The sole breadwinner of his family, Girisha, who has an impairment in his left leg, was honoured with Rs 30 lakh cash award for...
05:32:45 PM Apr 12, 2013
Oscar Pistorius wants to train again and recently went back to visit his regular track in South Africa's capital, the double-amputee athlete's agent told 'The Associated Press'. ...
11:55:11 AM Apr 04, 2013
Kuzenkova, 2004 Olympic champion in the women's hammer, tested positive at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki, where she also finished first. ...
10:01:32 PM Apr 02, 2013
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell has been forced to withdraw from his first meeting since last year's Olympic final because of a hamstring injury, Athletics Australia said on Tuesday. ...
12:42:38 PM Apr 02, 2013
Pooja Chaurishi claimed the gold in the sprint event which included swimming, cycling and running. ...
07:09:59 PM Apr 01, 2013
Usain Bolt cruised to victory in 14.42 seconds, falling short of the world-best mark of 14.35 he set on the streets of Manchester in 2009. ...
12:29:27 PM Apr 01, 2013
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