Category: Athletics

Olympian Murali Sreeshankar, the long jump silver medallist in the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, has won the 35th Jimmy George Foundation award for the best sportsperson of Kerala. The … Read More

The Athletics Federation of India’s guidelines to select the Indian team for next year’s Paris Olympics, released on Wednesday, has a rule which says that “qualification standards achieved in any … Read More

Dominican sprinter Luguelin Santos has been stripped of his World Junior Championships gold medal and banned for three years for age-manipulation violations, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday. … Read More

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is set to become the country’s first National Sports Federation to go paperless in its dealings with its state units. Each state unit president or … Read More

The doping spotlight is once again on Russia after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cleared the way on Friday for the country’s athletes to compete at next year’s Paris Summer … Read More

Year after year, one keeps hearing about the good news that the synthetic track at the Maharaja’s Stadium here would be relaid. But as each year passes, the disappointment continues. … Read More

High jumpers Varun Singh Bhati and Nishad Kumar stole the limelight as they won a gold medal each on the opening day of the athletics competition at the inaugural Khelo … Read More

ATHLETICS Asian indoor athletic championship: India’s Ankita wins silver in women’s 3000m India’s Ankita won a silver in the women’s 3000m at the Asian indoor athletics championships in Tehran on … Read More

Six athletes – Faith Kipyegon, Noah Lyles, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, Tigist Assefa, Kelvin Kiptum, and Yulimar Rojas – were all named World Athletes of the Year on Monday after the … Read More

As K. Swetha neared the worn-out spots on the Maharaja’s Stadium synthetic track, she turned a bit cautious. With the top layer off in many areas, athletes competing in the … Read More