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...
02:00 AM, Aug 08, 2012
London: It was a luckless day for India at the Olympics with its two triple jumpers on show crashing out of the track and field competition here Tuesday. Male triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary gave a poor account of himself as he failed to qualify for the finals with a 'No Mark' at the Olympic Stadium. Renjith was shown the red flag in all three of his attempts as he over-stepped...
11:25 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London India's sole woman triple jumper in London Olympics Mayookha Johny crashed out of the Games, failing to qualify for the finals with a disappointing 13th place finish in Group B here on Friday. The Indian finished a dismal 22nd overall with a best effort of 13.77 metres, which she got in her first attempt at the Olympic Stadium. Things only got worse for her as she jumped 13.68m in...
06:20 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Kozhikode: The coach of Mayookha Johny, India's star athlete who is competing at the London Olympics in triple jump, is yet to get clearance to accompany her to the games. MD Johny, former body builder and father of Mayookha, said while other coaches got the clearance from the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to travel along with their athletes, her daughter's coach Shyam Kumar was still waiting for the AFI...
03:05 PM, Jul 21, 2012
New Delhi: Triple jumper Mayookha Johny has been cleared to take part in the London Olympics after she came up with a fine effort in a competition at her training base in Germany, Athletics Federation of India said on Monday. AFI Secretary General CK Valson told PTI that Mayookha's coach has sent a report that she cleared 14.10m in a meet in Germany three days back and it will be...
07:14 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary has been cleared for Olympics after he passed a fitness trial at his training base in Italy, Athletics Federation of India said on Thursday. Woman triple jumper Mayookha Johny and marathoner Ram Singh Yadav are yet to undergo similar trials after the AFI asked them to prove their fitness on the ground that they have not taken part in a competition for some time...
09:14 AM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary has been cleared for Olympics after he passed a fitness trial at his training base in Italy, Athletics Federation of India said today. Woman triple jumper Mayookha Johny and marathoner Ram Singh Yadav are yet to undergo similar trials after the AFI asked them to prove their fitness on the ground that they have not taken part in a competition for some time after...
09:38 PM, Jul 11, 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
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, South Korea: Asian champion Mayookha Johny on Saturday qualified for the women's long jump finals in the World Championships to become the only second Indian to do so after Anju Booby George here. Mayookha, who won gold in last month's Asian Championships in Japan, leapt 6.53m in the qualification round, which she managed in her third effort to finish sixth in Group B but that was enough for her...
08:45 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: Mayookha Johny grabbed her second medal with a new national record in triple jump while shot putter Om Prakash Karhana finished third as India won two bronze on the third and penultimate day of the Asian Athletics Championships on Saturday. Mayookha, who had won a gold in long jump on the opening day on Thursday, leapt 14.11m to win bronze, smashing her own national record of 14.02m which she...
08:19 PM, Jul 09, 2011
Kobe: Rattled by a dope scandal, Indian athletics finally has something to cheer about as long jumper Mayookha Johny led the Indian charge with a gold on the opening day of the 19th Asian Championships here on Thursday. Discus thrower Vikas Gowda added a silver while Asian Games gold medallist Preeja Sreedharan bagged a bronze in women's 10,000m race. Mayookha leapt 6.56m in her second jump to open India's gold...
06:46 PM, Jul 07, 2011
Wujiang: Triple jumper Mayookha Johny on Sunday became the first Indian woman to breach 14m mark while creating a new national record en-route to winning bronze in the third and final leg of the Asian Athletics Grand Prix here. Mayookha produced a big leap of 14.02m to finish third behind two Chinese Xie Limei (14.16m) and Li Yanmei (14.05m). She bettered Kerala state-mate M A Prajusha's earlier national record of...
10:27 PM, May 29, 2011
