Athens, Oct 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 2020 Athens Marathon, which was slated to take place on November 7-8, has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hellenic Athletics Federation (SEGAS) in a statement on Thursday…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Varun Singh Bhati was diagnosed with polio at a young age, but that did not deter the para high-jumper from attaining great heights in the sporting universe. Recently, the 25-year-old…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has finalised its deferred calendar for the year 2020-21 wherein the competitions will resume with 1st National Open Throws Championships in Patiala on October…
By Aakash Kumar New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) National 100m record holder Dutee Chand, who was recently conferred the Arjuna Award, is eagerly waiting for the track and field competitions to resume so that she…
Nairobi, Sep 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kenyan long-distance runner Patrick Siele has been handed a ban of three years and six months by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping. The AIU said in a statement that…
New Delhi, Sep 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Run clubs across the country have voiced their support to Sunfeast India Run As One. Run clubs like Hyderabad Runners, Jayanagar Jaguars, RunXtreme-Delhi, Chennai Runners, Mumbai Road Runners, Soles Of…
Bratislava (Slovakia), Sep 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four-time world triple jump champion Christian Taylor of the US failed to live up to expectations as he was beaten by local hero Tomas Veszelka at the PTS Meeting, a…
New Delhi, Sep 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ‘Sunfeast India Run As One’ movement, which was initiated by Procam International on August 15, has entered its last mile achieving significant success. Since its launch, the initiative has…
New Delhi, Sep 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) “Doors might be closed not locked”, said double Olympic 800 meters champion Caster Semenya after she lost her long-running legal battle against regulations requiring women with high testosterone to take…
Mumbai, Sep 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s top sportspersons, including track and field champions Hima Das and Neeraj Chopra and national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, will spearhead the IDBI Federal Future Fearless Champions Challenge, a part of…
Warsaw, Sep 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Germany’s Johannes Vetter came close to breaking the javelin world record, throwing 97.76m at the Skolimowska Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold in Poland. Vetter’s effort on Sunday is the…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) As many as 33 eminent sports personalities across 15 sports disciplines have applied for direct admission for the diploma course in sports coaching at the Netaji Subhash National Institute of…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) As marathons and other races across the globe get postponed or cancelled amid the Covid-19 pandemic, adidas has, in a bid to keep the world moving, announced the adidas 5k…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Sports Ministry on Saturday announced that it has extended the contracts of nine foreign athletics coaches, including that of high performance director Volker Hermann, with an eye on the…
Brussels, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan both broke the one-hour world record at the Memorial Van Damme meet. The meet is part of the Diamond League series and was…
Prague, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir on Saturday broke the women-only race world record in the half marathon in Prague. The 26-year-old clocked 1:05:34 at the Prague 21.1KM, shattering the previous record of 1:06:11…
Vienna, Aug 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ivona Dadic came out with this year’s highest-scoring performance in heptathlon and tallied a world-leading 6,419 points to win the title at the Austrian Combined Events championships in Gotzis. Despite difficult…
Paris, Aug 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Diamond League has announced further changes to its 2020 calendar, with the postponement of a second meeting in China until 2021. Originally scheduled for October 17, the meeting would have…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The announcement of the 40th edition of the London Marathon changing its format to an elite runner only event last week dashed all hopes of amateur runners who were expecting…
Tokyo, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Asian champion Yoshihide Kiryu won the men’s 100 metre title here on Sunday in the first track and field event held at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium. Kiryu, who became Asia’s…