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The senior selection committee of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) met on Thursday but pushed the team announcement for next month’s World Championships to Saturday as it awaits clarity on athletes in borderline cases who could end up making the cut. A few Indians like javelin thrower Rohit Yadav and 35km race walker Sandeep…
It has been a painfully sweet year for India’s short-distance runners in 2025. Animesh Kujur, India’s latest sprint headline act, is on the cusp of becoming the first Indian male sprinter to participate in the World Championships, to be held in Tokyo next month. The 21-year-old has battled through a long, arduous season in which…
Numbers told the real story at the 64th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Chennai, with every second, metre and ranking point shaping the fortunes of Indian athletes. The domestic meet, held from August 20-24, was the last opportunity for Indian athletes to seal their spots at next month’s World Championships (September 13-21) in Tokyo….
Animesh Kujur broke the National Record in the men’s 100m during the second heat at the Dromia International Sprint & Relays Meeting in Greece on Saturday. The 200m National Record-holder clocked 10.18s — the first Indian to go below the 10.20s mark — to win Heat 2 at the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event….
Asian Games silver medallist Mohammed Afsal broke the 800m National Record while finishing sixth at the Czesław Cybulski Memorial 2025, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver, in Poznan, Poland, on Saturday. The 29-year-old Afsal clocked 1 minute 44.93 seconds, becoming the first Indian to go below the 1:45 mark. Afsal bettered his previous NR of…
The Indian men’s 4x100m relay team was disqualified during the heats on Friday at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea. The quartet of Manikanta Hoblidar, Amlan Borgohain, Rahul Kumar, and Pranav Gurav finished second, which is otherwise enough to book a spot in the final. However, the team was shown as DQ while…
National record holder Avinash Sable became the first Indian man in 36 years to win a gold medal in 3000m steeplechase at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, Korea, on Thursday. The 30-year-old Sable, a two-time Olympian and the reigning Asian Games champion, crossed the finish line in 8:20.92s to seal a comfortable victory. Japan’s…
Before he stepped out to compete at the 2025 Federation Cup in Kochi, Praveen Chithravel wrote down something behind his numbered bib ahead of the start of the men’s triple jump competition. Later, once he’d won gold while equalling his own national record of 17.37m, the 23-year-old revealed just what he had written: ‘17.20m’ Chithravel had come…
It was a Ugandan double in the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2025, with Joshua Cheptegei and Sarah Chelangat claiming victories in the international elite men’s and women’s categories respectively on Sunday. Cheptegei, the reigning Olympic 10,000m champion, underlined his favourite status with a tactically sound run. Cheptegei stayed on the heels of leader Gabriel Geay…
Neeraj Chopra, the reigning world champion in javelin throw, will not compete at the Asian Athletics Championships, set to be held from May 27 to 31 in Gumi, South Korea. The squad, announced by the Athletics Federation of India on Friday following the conclusion of the Federation Cup in Kochi, did not have Tokyo Olympics…
