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With many top quartermilers skipping the National Federation Athletics Championships here, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has decided not to send the women’s 4x400m relay team for next month’s Asian Championships in Gumi, South Korea. National Games champion Aishwarya Mishra, this season’s fastest 400m runner, and last year’s topper Kiran Pahal missed the Federation…
A slew of dope cases rocked Indian athletics, with junior national team chief coach Ramesh Nagpuri suspended by the NADA for “complicity” in doping while seven athletes were also in dock for “evading” tests. Two more coaches — Karamveer Singh and Rakesh — were also suspended for “complicity” and “administration of prohibited substances” respectively. The…
Olympian Jyothika Sri Dandi, the country’s second-fastest woman quartermiler last year, will miss next week’s National Federation Senior Athletics Championships here after her entry for the event was rejected. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) had made it clear, through its circular, that athletes would have to participate in at least one regional competition or…
Murali Sreeshankar, the Commonwealth and Asian Games silver medallist, will miss the Asian Athletics Championships which begin in the Gumi on May 27. Sreeshankar was forced to miss last year’s Paris Olympics with a knee injury. He had to undergo surgery for that in Qatar and now after missing a full year, he is planning…
National record holder 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable will feature in the season-opening Diamond League Meeting in Xiamen, China on April 26, which will have a top-class field, including reigning Olympic and world champion Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco. Paris Olympics and World Championships bronze medallist Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya, who had beaten Sable for gold…
India’s Krishna Jayasankar, currently studying in the USA, broke the women’s shot put indoor national record when she won the bronze medal at the Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championship in Albuquerque with an effort of 16.03m. The 22-year-old Krishna, who was representing University of Nevada, bettered the previous Indian indoor national record of…
In 2024, India’s sporting fortunes were more of a dim flicker, with a few stray fireworks thrown in. While the year was headlined by the high of the ICC T20 World Cup in the USA and the Caribbean, the form and reputation of our cricketers and the national team took a beating as the year…
Amongst the various familial obligations that Gulveer Singh had to fulfil when he returned home to his village of Sirsa in western Uttar Pradesh’s Atrauli district early in December, there was one that meant a lot to him personally. He drove his new tractor — the one he had bought using part of the prize…
Denis Kapustin is wholesome in his praise for M. Harikrishnan. Appointed around five months ago as India’s jumps coach, Kapustin, a Russian, couldn’t travel to either Eugene for the World Championships or Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games because of visa-related issues. That did not stop the triple-jumpers Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker from clinching the…
Services triple jumper A.B. Arun, who lost his National Games gold after failing a dope test, has been given a four-year suspension. The 26-year-old had stunningly won the gold with a 16.79m jump, a Games’ record breaking Asian Games bronze medallist Praveen Chithravel’s record of 16.68m (2022), in Goa late last year. The National Anti-Doping…
