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March 18, 2018 Nomi (Japan). Ravina of Haryana won the open category gold at 20km Asian Race Walking Championships held at Nomi, Japan on Sunday with an impressive timing of 1:35:35. The Haryana girl finished overall second behind Duan Dandan (1:35:12) of China who won the gold in the official entry category of the championships. India’s official entry for the

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AFI Media 15 March 2018 New Delhi. India’s long distance athlete Sanjivani Jadhav bagged a bronze medal at the 14th Asian Cross Country Championships held on Thursday morning at Guiyang in China. Sanjivani clocked 28m 19sec in the Senior women’s 8km event to finish third. China’s Li Dan (28.03) won the gold while Abe Yukari (28.06) of Japan settled for

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AFI Media 14 March 2018 New Delhi. A four-member athletics team comprising IAAF U20 World Champion in Javelin Throw Neeraj Chopra, triple jump National Record holder Arpinder Singh and long jumpers Nayana James and Neena Varakil departed today for training and participation in the 21st Commonwealth Games to be held in Gold Coast, Australia from 4-15 April 2018. The Indian

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AFI Media 08 March 2018 Patiala. Dharun Ayyasamy of Tamil Nadu delivered the performance of his career as he shattered the 11-year old national record in the men’s 400m hurdles at the Run Adam Federation Cup at the National Institute of Sport in Patiala on Thursday. Ayyasamy, who was part of the Indian 4x400m relay team at the Rio Olympics,

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Patiala. 19-year-old Tejaswin Shankar set a new national record in the men’s high jump jumping 2.28m at the Run Adam Federation Cup in Patiala on Wednesday. Shankar had earlier cleared 2.28m at a collegiate event in the USA but this mark was his first at an Athletics Federation of India event. Shankar also held the old national record of 2.26m

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AFI Media 06 March 2018 Patiala. Neeraj Chopra reemphasized his position as the best javelin thrower in the country even as he won a gold medal at the Run Adam Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships 2018 by setting a new meet record. In his final throw of the competition, Chopra threw the spear 85.94m, erasing the old mark of

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AFI Media 05 March 2018 Patiala. Veteran discus thrower Seema Punia set a new meet record on the opening day of the Run Adam Federation Cup on Monday. The 34-year-old Punia who was competing in her first competition of the year, flung the iron disc a distance of 61.05m in her final of six attempts at the National Institute of

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