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SQUASH Rathika advances Rathika Suthanthira Seelan advanced to the semifinals of the NSW Open squash with a straight-games win over local challenger Karen Bloom in Sydney. Second seed Rathika beat Karen 11-8, 11-7, 11-4 in 22 minutes in the quarterfinals of the PSA Challenger event. Meanwhile, fifth seed Veer Chotrani beat Egypt’s Mohamed Sharaf 11-7,…
GOLF Diksha, Pranavi lead four Indians in Aramco China golf Indian golfers Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs, Avani Prashanth and Tvesa Malik will hope for positive results at the penultimate event of the Ladies European Tour that gets underway with the Aramco China Championship this week. Back after a week off, Diksha returns to action skipping…
MORE SPORTS IOA to give cash rewards to AYG medal winners, 4th place finishers, coaches Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Monday announced that the gold, silver, and bronze medal winners at the recent Youth Asian Games in Bahrain will be given cash rewards of Rs 5 lakh, 3 lakh, and 2 lakh, respectively, in recognition…
FILE PHOTO: Sarvesh Kushare wins the men’s High Jump at the 64th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships. | Photo Credit: RAGU R FILE PHOTO: Sarvesh Kushare wins the men’s High Jump at the 64th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships. | Photo Credit: RAGU R elcome to Sportstar’s LIVE coverage of the High Jump…
Indian track athletes need to increase their training load if they want to compete with the global elite, said Athletics Federation of India spokesperson Adille Sumariwalla on Sunday as he announced a 19-member contingent for the upcoming World Athletics Championships. The World Championships is set to be held in Tokyo from September 13 to 21….
Two-time Asian Games gold-medallist shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor on Saturday clinched the top position in the third leg of the Indian Grand Prix here and looks set for an exciting Inter-State Senior National Championships in Chennai later this month. The 30-year-old hurled the iron ball to a distance of 18.93 metres at Guru Nanak Stadium…
India’s national record holder in the 3000m steeplechase, Avinash Sable, has completed a successful surgery for an injury in his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus. However, the recovery period — usually six to eight weeks for a typical ACL injury — renders him doubtful for the World Athletics Championships, set to be played between…
Dev Meena broke the men’s pole vault record for the third time in 2025 during the World University Games in Germany on Friday. During the qualification, he cleared 5.40m to better his own previous record of 5.35m from April at the National Federartion Athletics Championships in Kochi. The 20-year-old from Madhya Pradesh will next be…
Star Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar clinched the title with a leap of 7.75m at the Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto in Maia, Portugal, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze-level meet. The Asian Games silver medallist registered his best effort in the second round on Saturday night. Sreeshankar opened with a 7.63m jump, followed it…
For a long time, para athlete Valasamgari Bhavani had to be content with a silver or a bronze both at national and international meets. And, so when this 26-year-old completed a golden double, winning the 200m first and then the 100 m (in T-46 category) on consecutive days in the very first women only World…
