Doping scandal hits Indian Weightlifitng; 21 athletes suspended after tests
New Delhi, April 04: In what could be termed as one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the Indian Weightlifting Federation...
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NEW DELHI: In what could be termed as one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the Indian Weightlifting Federation after...
View Article21 lifters test positive, provisionally suspended by IWF
In what could be termed as one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the Indian Weightlifting Federation after testing...
View Article21 lifters suspended for using banned substances
In what could be termed as one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the Indian Weightlifting Federation after testing...
View ArticleKarnataka judokas win 2 gold
Samata Rane and Puja Shapurkar claimed gold medals for Karnataka at the National Games judo competitions on Wednesday. Samata defeated Delhi’s Kalpana Devi in the women’s 52kg category final. She had...
View ArticleHaryana lead gold rush on opening day of National Games
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Five meet records were drowned in the swimming pool even as star wrestler Amit Kumar was shockingly upstaged and had to settle for a silver medal on an exciting opening day of...
View ArticleThree golds, one bronze: UT athletes back with rich haul
CHANDIGARH: Junior athletes from the city showed top-notch form at the 25th North Zone Junior Athletics Championship, winning four medals, which included 3 gold and 1 bronze. The championship was held...
View ArticleSiddhant, Poovamma are ‘best athletes’
Siddhant Thingalaya equalled his National record of 13.65 as he won the men’s 110 metres hurdles in the 18th Federation Cup athletics championships at the NIS Complex here on Tuesday. Siddhant...
View ArticleNational Athletics Championship: Gayathri, Chitra set records
Gayathri Sivakumar, the 12-year-old from Kochi, soared to a new meet record in the girls’ under-14 high jump event, providing the perfect take-off to the 29th junior National athletics championship,...
View ArticleIndian U-14 basketball probables announced
NAGPUR: Basketball Federation of India (BFI) declared the list of probable players in the boys and girls' U-14 category on Monday. In both the categories 25 players have been shortlisted from the...
View ArticleAthletics: Kerala sweep team honours
Bangalore, Dec 7: Jessy Joseph underlined Keralas overall supremacy as she brought the curtains down on the 29th Junior National athletics championships here Saturday by breaking her own National...
View ArticleAbhishek pockets decathlon gold
Haryana's Inderjeet Singh, MP's Ankit Sharma set new meet records After two days of toil, only two points separated the champion from his nearest rival. And standing tall at the very end was Abhishek N...
View ArticleYesudas to lead Indian challenge
Tamil Nadu's Augustine Yesudas, who set the new U-20 national record of 10.57 seconds at the National inter-zonal junior athletics in Kochi last month, heads the Indian squad for the 2nd South Asian...
View ArticleTwo more medals for Vijay; Ghosal, Chinappa clinch squash gold
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Olympic hero Vijay Kumar's pistol fetched him two more medals while the seasoned squash duo of Saurav Ghosal and Joshana Chinappa clinched the individual gold in contrasting styles...
View ArticleSpectre of doping menace
Bangalore: The scene at the National junior athletics championship, highlights one of Indian athletics' worstkept secrets doping. Syringes are strewn around the restrooms and while some make an...
View ArticleTintu Luka shines on final day of National Games
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Asian Games medallist Tintu Luka ruled the track on the final day of competitions as she smashed an 18-year-old meet record to win 800m gold before inspiring Kerala to 4x400m top...
View ArticleIndian team for South Asian Junior Athletics C'ships announced
NEW DELHI: The selection committee of Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Wednesday announced a 56-member team for the 2nd South Asian Junior (U-20) Athletics Championships to be held in Ranchi from...
View ArticleNational Games: Deepika leads Jharkhand to recurve gold
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former Commonwealth and Asian Games medallist Deepika Kumari steered Jharkhand to two team gold medals in the recurve archery events but stunningly missed out on an individual...
View ArticleGolden double for Vijay Kumar
Shooting : Services ace wins centre fire pistol Olympic silver-medallist Vijay Kumar shot a golden double on the third day of competitions in the 35th National Games here today. Vijay, who won the team...
View ArticleVijay shoots golden double, records continue to tumble at pool
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Olympic silver-medallist Vijay Kumar shot a golden double while the swimming pool continued to witness the shattering of meet records on the third day of competitions in the 35th...
View ArticleJakhar sets new mark
Haryana’s Ashish Jakhar set a national record in boys hammer throw on the second day of the National Youth Athletics Championships here on Friday. Ashish won the gold with a 72.04 metre effort, erasing...
View ArticleGritty Dutee races to gold
National Games: Odisha athlete wins women's 100M; Dharambir takes men's title Was it a race to prove a point to her detractors or a sprint to escape from the painful memories of her recent past? One...
View ArticleLakshmanan wins 5000 gold
Karnataka's Balakrishna bags pole vault silver on rain-hit day G Lakshmanan and L Suriya form a terrific combination when it comes to winning long distance gold medals on the national athletics scene....
View ArticleKerala claims overall atletic championship for the third time
For the third time in a row, Kerala emerged the overall champion with 528.5 points in the Jio 30th National Junior Athletic championship that concluded at the IGMC Stadium here on Sunday. The Kerala...
View ArticleRecords tumble at Bambolim
PANAJI: Five meet records and a national record went tumbling on the second day of the 11th National Youth Athletics Championships at the Bambolim Athletics Stadium. Maymon Poulose of Kerala, who...
View ArticleTN claims overall title in National Junior athletics c'ships
Kochi: Tamil Nadu clinched the overall title ahead of hosts Kerala in the 25th National Inter-Zonal Junior Athletics Championships, which concluded here today. With 440.5 points in their kitty, Tamil...
View ArticleTwin gold for Jitu, Sodhi wins double trap at National Games
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India's latest shooting sensation and Asian Games Champion Jitu Rai won double gold medals in the pistol event while former World Cup winner Ronjan Sodhi bagged the yellow metal in...
View ArticleVijay Kumar shows his class once again
The adage that form is temporary but class is permanent was reiterated when the seasoned Vijay Kumar won the 25m centre fire pistol event in the shooting competitions of the 35th National Games here on...
View ArticleKerala asserts its supremacy
Kerala asserted its overall supremacy in the 29th junior National athletics championships that concluded here on Saturday. Kerala accumulated 585 points to take the overall championship for the 17th...
View ArticleDutee breaches meet mark again, records tumble in athletics
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Controversial teen sprinter Dutee Chand cornered glory by clinching the women's 100m gold with a new meet record as athletes continued to raise the bar in the blue-riband track and...
View ArticleNational Games: Dutee smashes meet record in heats, SSCB remain on top
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Controversial teen sprinter Dutee Chand set the track ablaze in the qualifiers itself with a new meet record even as Services Sports Control Board tightened its grip around the...
View ArticleHarshith leaps to high jump gold
Athletics Inter-state meet : Dutee anchors Odisha to relay win After sailing over the bar at 2.16 metres, S Harshith let out a guttural scream that echoed around the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. All his...
View ArticleMaheswary wins maiden National Games gold with new meet record
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former Asian champion Renjith Maheswary nabbed his maiden National Games gold with a new meet record in triple jump on Thursday as previous marks continued to tumble like nine pins...
View ArticleTwo meet records fall
Two meet records were set on the opening day of the 12th National Youth Athletics Championship here on Thursday with Kisan Naresh Tadwi and PR Aleesha racing away with those honours. Both the records...
View ArticleChitra, Gayathry set meet records
Tweet Bangalore, Dec 3 (IANS) Kerala athletes Chitra PU and Gayathri Sivakumar rewrote Meet records on the opening day of the 29th Junior National Athletics championships here Tuesday. Chitra, gold...
View ArticleChitra PU, Gayathri Sivakumar set meet records
Bangalore, Dec 3: Kerala athletes Chitra PU and Gayathri Sivakumar rewrote Meet records on the opening day of the 29th Junior National Athletics championships here Tuesday. Chitra, gold medallist in...
View ArticleSanchay Paul sets new U-14 100m national record
BANGALORE: West Bengal's Sanchay KR Paul came up with a standout performance as he shattered the national and meet records twice while winning the boys Under-14 100 metres sprint in the 29th Junior...
View ArticleK.R.Paul sets new U-14 100m national record
Bangalore, Dec 5: West Bengals Sanchay K.R. Paul came up with a standout performance as he shattered the national and meet records twice while winning the boys Under-14 100 metres sprint in the 29th...
View ArticlePaul sets new U-14 100m national record
Tweet Bangalore, Dec 5 (IANS) West Bengal's Sanchay K.R. Paul came up with a standout performance as he shattered the national and meet records twice while winning the boys Under-14 100 metres sprint...
View ArticleVaishnavi lifts Karnataka spirits
Bangalore: Toommy Vaishnavi fetched the lone gold for Karnataka on the opening day of the National Junior Athletics Championship, which got under way at Sree Kanteerava stadium on Tuesday . The...
View ArticleDoping still rampant among junior athletes
BANGALORE: From Kerala to Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh to Haryana, the spectre of doping is spreading at an alarming rate and calls for some urgent and concrete measures from the central and state...
View ArticleTwo medallists disqualified
Two medallists at the 29th Junior National Athletics Championships were disqualified on Wednesday after they failed to report for dope tests while syringes in the toilets told a tale of...
View ArticleJanata Parivar merger will take some more time: Deve Gowda
The merger of the Janata Parivar, which has suffered a setback, would take some more time to become a reality, said JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Thursday. Addressing the media during the JD(S)...
View ArticleTelangana rowers clinch silver; Policemen dominate
HYDERABAD: Telangana rowers reached three finals but managed just one silver in the men's coxless fours event in the 34th National Rowing Championship at the Hussain Sagar Lake on Thursday. All India...
View ArticleJeevan Raksha Padak Awards – 2015 announced (Ministry of Home Affairs of the...
(Source: Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of India) The President of India has approved the conferment of Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards - 2015 on 50 persons which includes Sarvottam...
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