Athletics

Tehran (Iran), Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian distance runner Gulveer Singh won a gold medal in the men’s 3000m at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championship with a timing of 8:07.48, which is also his personal best…

Apeldoorn (Netherlands), Feb 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Femke Bol broke her record at the Dutch Indoor Championships here, returning to the scene of her historic 49.26 run 12 months ago to further improve the world indoor 400m…

Mumbai, Feb 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jyothi Yarraji and Tajinderpal Singh Toor set new National Records while Harmilan Bains too surged to victory as India picked three gold medals on the opening day of the Asian Indoor…

Lausanne, Feb 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the World Athletics has banned India’s K.M Rachna for 12 years for testing positive for a cocktail of steroids/prohibited substances. The 30-year-old Indian hammer thrower…

Dubai, Feb12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A galaxy of stars, including Paralympic and world championship winners, will return to their favourite hunting ground as the emirate gets ready to host the season-opening 15th Fazza International Para Athletics Grand…

New Delhi, Feb 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 24-year-old Kenyan long-distance runner and the marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach Gervais Hakizimana died in a road traffic accident. The accident occurred on Sunday at…

Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium), Feb 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) National record holder Tejaswin Shankar impressively began his 2024 season, winning the high jump event at the International High Jump Gala Elmos 2024 athletics meet. Competing for the first time…

New Delhi, Feb 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has said that she will retire after the 2024 Paris Olympics as she wants to spend more time with her family. The Jamaican star won…

Uppsala, Feb 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Reigning world record holder and Olympic champion pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has kicked off his 2024 year in style with a win at his own hometown meet ‘Mondo Classic’ here. The…

Monaco, Feb 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics, the global governing body for international track and field competitions, has ratified Kelvin Kiptum’s world marathon record of 2:00:35 set in Chicago last year. Kenya’s Kiptum became the first…

Glasgow, Feb 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) With less than four weeks to go until the first champion is crowned, the organisers have on Monday (February 5) revealed the medals specially commissioned for the World Athletics Indoor Championships…

New Delhi, Feb 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Legendary sprinter and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha on Sunday was conferred with the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award by the Sports Journalists Federation of India (SJFI) and Delhi Sports…

New Delhi, Feb 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) in their recent meeting approved Commonwealth Games medallist Tejaswin Shankar’s request for financial assistance towards participation…

Chennai, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Punjab’s international race walker, Manju Rani, had a good run at the 11th edition of the National Open Race Walking Competition. The day after winning gold in the women’s 20km, she…

Chandigarh, Jan 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uttarakhand’s Suraj Panwar has achieved the qualifying standard for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the men’s 20km race walk event at the Indian Open Race Walking Competition, here on Tuesday. Panwar…

Chandigarh, Jan 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Aspiring athletes aiming to cement their place in the national squad for the July 26 to August 11 Paris Olympic Games are both mentally and physically tuned to deliver the goods…

Hong Kong, Jan 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Anderson Seroi of Kenya won the men’s title as African athletes dominated the podium with about 74,000 runners competing in the 2024 Hong Kong Marathon here on Sunday. The annual…