News & Press Releases

17 November 2017 Vijayawada (AFP). Day-2 of Coromandel-33rd National Junior Athletics Championships ended today with two more national record and two new meet record here at the Acharya Nagarjuna University athletics ground in Vijayawada. The record-breaking distance of 74.73m (NR, MR) in javelin throw by Vikas Yadav from Maharashtra helped him clinch gold in boys’ U16 category. He broke the

Read more

16 November 2017, Vijayawada: Three National Records were broken here on the opening day of the 33rd National Junior Athletics Championships at the Acharya Nagarjuna University athletics ground in Vijaywada on Thursday. In the youth girls U18 category, Haryana’s Rubina Yadav cleared a height of 1.81m and broke Swapna Barman’s 1.71m record created in 2013 to win the gold medal.

Read more

AFI Media 29 October 2017 New Delhi. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) suspended Pondicherry, Manipur and Nagaland state athletics federations for being non-active while Punjab Athletics Association (PAA) was also handed over a three-month suspension for skipping the two-day Annual General Meeting of AFI concluded on Sunday at Hotel Mapple Emerald in New Delhi. The general body also unanimously

Read more

Annual General Body Meeting 2017 Notice thereof- Click Here

04 October 2017, Delhi : Focusing on two big events of 2018- the Commonwealth Games-Gold Coast, Australia and Asian Games-Jakarta, Indonesia, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has identified seven sprinters who will form Indian men’s 4x100m relay team for these Games. As per selection guidelines announced before the 57th National Open Athletics Championships held at Chennai from 25-28 September,

Read more

Women’s 200m 1 Hima Das ASSAM 24.26 2 Archana S TAMILNADU 24.33 3 Anwesha Roy Pradhan WEST BENGAL 24.56 Men’s 200m 1 Vidya Sagar SERVICES 21.46 2 Parveen HARYANA 21.49 3 K Ashok SERVICES 21.53 Women’s 800m 1 Lili Das RAILWAYS 2:04.51 2 Sipra Sarkar WEST BENGAL 2:05.85 3 Komal Chaudhary RAILWAYS 2:06.45 Men’s 800m 1 Ajay Saroj RAILWAYS 1:49.05

Read more

AFI Media September 27, 2017 Chennai: Day 3 here at 57th National Open Athletics Championships turned out to be a massive record maker, and breaker, as previous best records tumbled and new benchmarks were set. Events in men’s high jump and men’s 400m hurdles set the meet records straight. In men’s high jump, Railways’ Siddharth Yadav set a new meet

Read more