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10
Aug

AFI decides to mark August 7 every year as National Javelin Day to honour Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra

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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8
Aug

Javelin champion Chopra wins India’s first Olympic gold in athletics

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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3
Aug

AFI declares team for World Athletics U20 Championships 2021

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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3
Aug

Sprinter Srinivas and Hammer Thrower Harshita rewrite National U20 records

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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2
Aug

Discus Thrower Kamalpreet Kaur finishes sixth in Tokyo2020

AFI Media New Delhi, August 2: Kamalpreet Kaur finished sixth in the women’s Discus Throw competition in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, with a best throw of 63.70m on Monday evening. In a competition that was interrupted by rain and made the circle slippery, United States of America’s Valerie Allman won gold with a best effort that sent the disc over

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2
Aug

AFI Newsletter July 2021

AFI Newsletter July 2021

1
Aug

19th National Federation Cup Juniors(U20) Athletics Championships 2021 – Start List Day 3

19th National Federation Cup Juniors(U20) Athletics Championships 2021 Start List Day 3