Paris, Dec 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics had said that it would decide whether to allow Russian athletes to compete as ‘Authorised Neutral Athletes’ (ANA) in international competitions in its next council meeting in March 2021,…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) N.S. Dattatreya, a 92-year-old “young man” is all set to run his first TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2020, which will begin from Sunday. Having developed an interest in marathons and…
Monaco, Dec 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ugandan long distance runner Joshua Cheptegei’s 10,000m world record and the 5,000m record of Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey, which were set earlier this year, have been officially ratified. Gidey’s 5,000m mark of…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Paralympic gold medallist Devendra Jhajharia, two-time world champion Sundar Singh and world number one para badminton player Parul Parmar are among the top athletes participating in the fifth edition of…
Monaco, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Athletics Council has approved the qualification systems for the World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022 and the World Athletics U20 Championships Nairobi 2021. As was the case in 2019, athletes…
London, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said on Friday that he is hopeful that most athletics events will take place next season, including the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo. Sitting in the…
Bengaluru, Dec 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) The TCS World 10K Bengaluru on Friday announced a tie-up with nutrition brand Fast&Up. The World Athletics Gold Label Road Race will be held from December 20 to 27 via the…
Nanjing, Dec 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, has been postponed to March 2023, the global governing body for athletics announced on Thursday. World Athletics decided this year to delay…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Long jumper Anju Bobby George, winner of the historic bronze medal winner at the 2003 World Athletics Championship, on Monday revealed that she reached the pinnacle of her career with…
Lausanne (Switzerland) Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Swedish pole vaulter Armando “Mondo” Duplantis and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas were on Saturday declared male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2020….
New Delhi, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The national camp for India’s elite javelin throwers, including Asian Games gold medallist Neeraj Chopra, has shifted from the National Institute of Sport (NIS) in Patiala to the Kalinga Stadium…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has promoted Radhakrishnan Nair as chief coach of Indian athletics, it was announced on Friday. Nair, 62, had been a deputy to Bahadur Singh,…
London, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Scientists in Britain on Thursday unveiled a new approach to reduce doping in sport. Academics at the University of Birmingham found in a new study that elite athletes can be persuaded…
New Delhi, Nov 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) As many as 89 runners led the charge from Chandigarh during the 16th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, held in a bio-secure environment amid the Covid-19 pandemic in…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Records tumbled at the Delhi Half Marathon as Ethiopians Amedework Walelegn and Yalemzerf Yehualaw broke course records to take the men’s and women’s titles while India’s Avinash Sable broke the…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Eight track and field athletes, including Dutee Chand and KT Irfan, have been included in the core group of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme while seven others have been included…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw produced a stunning run over in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2020 held to clock the second fastest women’s time ever over the distance when she crossed…
New Delhi, Nov 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sunday’s Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM) will bring people together in India, said Abhinav Bindra, event ambassador and India’s only individual Olympic gold medallist, on Friday. At the event, the…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is on the lookout for two new high-performance directors for senior and junior athletes after Volker Hermann on Sunday announced that he has resigned from…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s athletics high performance director Volker Hermann on Sunday announced that he has resigned from the position. Hermann said in a statement that he put on his Facebook page that…