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AFI Media 22 July 2018 Vadodara. Haryana athlete Mohit Kumar set the stage alight on the second day of the 15th National Youth Athletics Championships, even as he set a new youth national record in the men’s decathlon. Mohit tallied 6707 points at the end of the ten events to erase the old mark of 6618 points set by A

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AFI Media 21 July 2018 Vadodara.Rakesh Gond was the star performer on the opening day of the 15th National Youth Athletics Championships currently underway in Vadodara, setting a new youth national record in the pole vault competition. Gond, 18 cleared a height of 4.90m to erase both the old meet record of 4.72m set by Dhirendra Kumar in the 2016

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AFI Media 19 July 2018 Vadodara:India’s emerging track and field athletes in the Under-18 (Youth) category will be in action during the 15th National Youth Athletics Championships which will kick-off at the Manjalpur Sports Complex here on Saturday. A total of 634 athletes including 364 boys and 270 girls from 24 states the country has registered for the prestigious U18

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AFI Media 18 July 2018 New Delhi. Six Indian ultra-runners will take part in the 30th IAU 100km World Championship to be held at Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia on 08th September 2018. This is the first time an Indian team will participate in the 100km World Championships. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has selected Vikash Malik, Lt Cdr

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AFI Media 04 July 2018 Bangkok (Thailand). Kunwer Ajairaj Singh Rana was the star of the show for India on the opening day of the Asian Area qualification leg of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games currently underway in Bangkok, Thailand. The 18-year-old javelin thrower managed to both win the gold medal and qualify for the Youth Olympic Games to be

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AFI Media 29 June 2018 Guwahati. Hima Das claimed the bragging rights on the final day of the 58th National Inter State Athletics Championships by winning the marquee women’s 400m race in Guwahati on Friday. The 18-year-old clocked 51.13 seconds to pip Haryana’s Nirmla Sheoran to the top of the podium at the Indira Gandhi Stadium. Das, who had earlier

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AFI Media 28 June 2018 Guwahati. Meet records continued to tumble and athletes continued to earn places in the Indian squad for the 2018 Asian Games, at the 58th National Inter State Athletics Championships in Guwahati. Five athletes earned the right to represent India in Jakarta even as six meet records were set in the third day of competition at

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