Athletics

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…

New Delhi, Aug 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ‘Sunfeast India Run As One’ movement, which was initiated by Procam International on August 15, has raised Rs 19,52,248 in its first week for the livelihoods which have been…

New Delhi, Aug 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday launched the Fit India Youth Club on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day of the country. The Fit India Youth Club, a…

Paris, Aug 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) World 10,000m champion Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda announced the return of international athletics with a sensational world 5000m record of 12:35.36 at the Diamond League meeting held in Monaco. On Friday,…

New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Fit India Freedom run, launched by Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, has found support from a host of government and private organisations, the ministry said on Friday. Armed forces including…

Mumbai, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic Marathon Champion Eliud Kipchoge, who inspired the world and created history when he broke the two-hour marathon barrier in Vienna last year, will join Procam International’s largest citizen-led movement dedicated…

Moscow, Aug 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Russian Athletics Federation, known as RusAF, has confirmed that they have paid the $6.3 million fine with the help from country’s sports ministry in order to avoid expulsion from the World…

Paris, Aug 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 2020 edition of the Paris Marathon, which was re-scheduled to take place on November 15, on Wednesday, has been cancelled due to implications put forward by coronavirus pandemic. The marathon…

Mumbai, Aug 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff has joined ‘Sunfeast India Run As One initiative’, which according to the organisers, is country’s largest citizen movement to restart livelihoods amid the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning this…

London, Aug 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic bronze medallist Nile Wilson has said that British gymnasts are still ‘treated like pieces of meat’ because of the culture that exists in the sport. “I would absolutely describe it…

New Delhi, Aug 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) suggested that National Sports Federations (NSF) ask for four more weeks’ time to reply to a questionnaire that they have been asked to fill by…