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AFI Media Nairobi, August 18: The Indian 4x400m mixed relay team claimed the bronze medal on the opening day of World Athletics U20 Championships here today. Barath Sridhar, Priya Mohan, Summy and Kapil clocked 3:20.60 behind Nigeria (3:19.70) and Poland (3:19.80) to post a creditable time and gave a glimpse of the depth of India’s talent in the quartermile event.

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AFI Media New Delhi, August 16: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) and the Athletics Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (AFIRI) have signed a cooperation agreement to formalise one another’s support towards achieving success in Track and Field sport. AFI President Adille J. Sumariwalla and AFIRI President Hashem Siami said the cooperation agreement was an extension of the

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AFI Media New Delhi, August 14: Javelin Thrower Kunwar Ajai Raj Singh Rana and Long Jumper Shaili Singh will lead the Indian challenge in the World Athletics U20 Championships to be held in Nairobi from August 17 to 22. The Indian squad will leave for the Kenyan capital late on Saturday evening. According to the Entry Lists released by World

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AFI Media New Delhi, August 10: The Athletics Federation of India has announced that August 7 each year would be celebrated as National Javelin Throw Day with competitions in all States and Union Territories to commemorate Neeraj Chopra’s feat of winning the country’s first athletics gold medal in the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a throw of 87.58m on Saturday.

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Neeraj Chopra made history in the javelin by becoming the first Indian to win an Olympic gold in athletics. But the biggest surprise of the competition was not so much that Chopra won; it was that world leader Johannes Vetter finished down in ninth and didn’t make the cut to compete in the last three rounds. Not to take anything

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AFI MEDIA NEW DELHI. The selection committee of Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has picked a 28-member team which will compete in 19 different disciplines at the World Athletics U20 Championships to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from August 17-22, 2021. The Indian team comprises 17 boys who will participate in 11 different disciplines at the worlds while eleven girls

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AFI Media Sangrur, Aug 3: Nalubothu Shamugha Srinivas (Andhra Pradesh) set a new National U20 and Meet record when he broke the beam in the men’s 200m final in a time of 21.02s seconds in the National Federation Cup U20 Junior Athletics Championships at the War Hero Stadium here on Monday. He was among eight athletes who earned qualification for

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