Athletics

Patiala, June 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Star sprinter Dutee Chand’s hopes of cracking Tokyo Olympic qualification time of 11.15 seconds in the women’s 100 metres final at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships on Saturday may get dashed…

Manchester, June 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Long-distance Olympic champion Mo Farah’s chances of competing at the Tokyo Olympics disappeared as one of the most successful British athletes failed once again to achieve the qualification time of 27min…

Patiala, June 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian men’s 4x400m relay team on Friday enhanced its chances of qualifying for the next month’s Tokyo Olympic Games by clocking 3 minutes 01.89 seconds on the opening day of the…

Patiala, June 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vikram Bharatsinh of Madhya Pradesh won gold in men’s 10,000 metres on the opening day of the National Inter State Athletics Championships here on Friday. Bharatsinh clocked 30 minutes 16.44 seconds…

Patiala, June 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka’s middle-distance runner Nimali Waliwarsha and sprinter Nadeesha Ramanayake are among the prominent athletes will compete in the five-day National Inter State Athletics Championships starting here on Friday. While Nimali…

Patiala, June 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The spotlight will be on the women’s 4x100m and men’s 4x400m relay squads at the five-day National Inter-State Championships starting here on Friday. This will be the last chance for athletes…

New Delhi, June 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will be part of a highly competitive field at the Kuortane Games on Friday in Finland in a bid to further boost his confidence ahead…

New Delhi, June 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ukrainian Yuriy Ogorodnik, who was associated with India as an athletics coach for nearly two decades, died in Kharkiv on Monday. He was 84. Ogorodnik had multiple stints in India…

Patiala, June 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s Tajinderpal Singh Toor, the reigning Asian Games champion in men’s shot put, has qualified for Tokyo Olympic Games with an Asian record throw of 21.49m in the Indian Grand Prix…

Patiala, June 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Dutee Chand anchored India A women’s 4x100m relay team to gold medal with a national record of 43.37 seconds in the one-day Indian Grand Prix IV here on Monday. Later in…

By Navneet Singh New Delhi, June 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tejaswin Shankar, India’s high jump national record holder, has dashed down from the USA to India with the sole aim of qualifying for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic…

Eugene, June 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) An additional $2million (Rs.14.82 crore) has been allocated to prize money for the World Championships in 2022 and 2023, the World Athletics (WA) has said. This money is the fine paid…

Patiala, June 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maldives athletes will compete in the men’s and women’s relay competitions of the one-day Indian Grand Prix IV scheduled for Monday here. “The Maldives athletes will reach Patiala by evening flight…

Patiala, June 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ace sprinter Dutee Chand and Daneshwari A.T. will battle it out for supremacy in women’s 100 meters in the Indian Grand Prix IV scheduled to be held here on Monday. As…

Patiala, June 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Entries of as many as 16 athletes, including five in men’s 1,500 meters event, have been rejected by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for the Indian Grand Prix IV, an…

Patiala, June 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Muhammed Anas, the national 400m record holder, and Noah Nirmal Tom will be the notable absentees from the individual 400m race of the one-day Indian Grand Prix IV to be held…

New Delhi, June 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Athletics legend Milkha Singh had the courage to speak up against the system when his name was included in the list of Arjuna Award for lifetime contribution to sports in…

Eugene, June 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic champion Ryan Crouser broke the 31-year-old world record of Randy Barnes in men’s shot put at the US Olympic Trials, recording a throw of 23.37 metres here. “It is a…