NEW DELHI,
May 9, 2013
Quarter-milers Arokia Rajiv and M.R. Poovamma struck gold as India collected nine medals in all, including four gold, in the second leg of the Asian Grand Prix athletics series in Chonburi, Thaila...
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NEW DELHI,
May 2, 2013
Nine of the 19 Indian athletes, including Olympic semifinalist Tintu Luka, invited for the Asian Amateur Athletics Grand Prix series in Thailand and Sri Lanka, will not be competing, mainly owing...
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PATIALA,
April 26, 2013
The expectations were not met but there was a promise of a bright tomorrow as Siddhant Thingalaya won the men’s 110 metres hurdles with a time of 13.84 seconds in the 17th Federation Cup athletics...
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Montego Bay (Jamaica),
April 24, 2013
World and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Melanie Walker has been confirmed for the 100m hurdles at the Jamaica International Invitational meet to be held here on May 4.
Walker will be runn...
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London,
April 17, 2013
One year after winning three gold medals at the 2012 Olympics, sprint king Usain Bolt will return to the Olympic stadium for the July 26-28 London Anniversary Games. The Jamaican superst...
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Magdeburg (Germany),
April 15, 2013
Angela Voigt, the 1976 Olympic long-jump champion for then East Germany, died on Thursday of an undisclosed illness, her former club SC Magdeburg said on Monday. She was 61.
Voigt had her...
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PATIALA,
April 7, 2013
The qualification marks for the World Athletics Championships continued to be elusive, but M.R. Poovamma lit up the evening with a fine performance in the women’s 400 metres in the second Asian Gr...
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MELBOURNE,
April 6, 2013
Olympic long jump gold medalist Greg Rutherford of Britain has repeated his London Games triumph over Australian Mitchell Watt at the IAAF Melbourne World Challenge.Rutherford won with a lea...
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New Delhi,
April 4, 2013
The acting president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, expressed his helplessness to fix a date for a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in v...
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New Delhi,
April 1, 2013
India won two medals, including a gold, in the South Asian triathlon championship held at Pokhara, Nepal. According to information received here, Pooja Chaurishi bagged gold in the women’s sprint...
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Bangkok,
May 4, 2013
Indian athletes impressed by bagging 11 medals, including four gold, in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix Series, in Bangkok on Saturday. M.R. Poovamma (women’s 400m), Sahana Kumari...
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NEW DELHI,
May 1, 2013
Some of the leading Indian athletes, including six women, will compete in the Asian Grand Prix series in Thailand and Sri Lanka over the next 10 days.
The first two meets will be held in...
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PATIALA,
April 25, 2013
The quartermile continued to be the topic of discussion in Indian athletics, albeit on a positive note, as M.R. Poovamma clocked 52.75 seconds to win the gold in the 17th Federation Cup athletics...
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New Delhi,
April 17, 2013
Sports Minister Jitendra Singh said the country will put up a unified front at the meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on May 7 in a bid to lift the suspension slapped on India.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
April 15, 2013
The Athletics Federation of India has zeroed in on Delhi as the venue of the 20th Asian athletics championships to be held from July 3 to 7, and an official announcement is likely to be made in th...
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KOCHI,
April 13, 2013
Just a couple of days ago, high jumper Sreenith Mohan had been a very disappointed boy. “I could not even go above 1.90m in my trial jumps, I was even worried I would lose the State cham...
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April 6, 2013
The 86-year-old ex-Army hawaldar is an athlete par excellence who has bagged over 60 medals and as many certificates in many national and state-level meets
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PATIALA,
April 5, 2013
Will the athletes get closer to the qualifying marks for the World Championship? That will be a major point of interest in the second Indian Grand Prix athletics, in the serene atmosphere of the Na...
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Johannesburg,
April 4, 2013
Oscar Pistorius’ agent says the double-amputee athlete has indicated to his management team that he wants to train again.
Peet van Zyl said on Wednesday that Pistorius met with him and co...
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PATIALA,
April 1, 2013
Officials blame it on faulty clock; Ranjith Maheswary wins triple jump
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