News & Press Releases

12
Jun

Ullas, Kieren completes Trail World Championships in Italy

Ultra-runners Ullas Narayana and Kieren D’Souza represented India for the first time at the 2017 Trail World Championships, a 50 km mountain trail race and successfully completed the challenge with impressive timings. Wearing Indian colours at the World Championships held at Badia Prataglia in Italy, Ullas completed the tough run with an impressive timing of 6 hours while Kieren crossed

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11
Jun

Laimwn Nazary breaks 25-year-old Junior National Record

11 June 2017 AFI Media Lucknow: One more old standing record crashed on Sunday at the 15th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championships on Sunday as Laimwn Narzary of Assam set a new Junior National Record in the Girls’ High Jump event with a 1.77m effort. At the P.A.C. Athletics Stadium, Laimwn broke Bobby Aloysius’s 1992 record of the 1.75m

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10
Jun

Priyanka Kerketta Leaps into the Record Books on Day 1

Lucknow: The 15th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championships got off to a promising start at the P.A.C Athletics Stadium with a number of commendable performances by the young athletes. Priyanka Kerketta broke the Junior National Record to win the Girls’ Long Jump event. The Jharkhand girl produced a best effort of 6.30m to clinch the first position decisively. The

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9
Jun

Promising Youngsters set for action in Junior Federation Cup

Lucknow, 9th June, 2017: It’s the Indian Junior’s turn for action after their senior’s at the P.A.C Athletics stadium here in Lucknow during the 15th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championships which will kick-off on Saturday morning. The championships will showcase the young budding talents in various categories and about more than 800 athletes from around the country have registered

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4
Jun

Federation Cup 2017 ends with Anu Rani’s record breaking performance

04 May 2017 AFI Media Patiala: Javelin thrower Anu Rani was the star performer of the the 21st Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships, throwing the spear 61.86m to break her own national record of 60.01m in the last event of the comeptition. In the process Rani, representing Uttar Pradesh in Patiala, qualified for the World Championships in London, the

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3
Jun

Sudha Singh returns to action with gold medal performance

03 June 2017 : Patiala: Competing in her first tournament since the Rio Olympics, Sudha Singh claimed a gold medal in the women’s 3000m steeplechase on the third day of the 21st Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships with a time of 10:03.01 seconds. Singh finished over a hundred meters ahead of Uttar Pradesh statement Parul Chaudhary who clocked a

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2
Jun

Federation Cup 2017: Neeraj Chopra smashes meet record

02 Jun. 17,Patiala : A thrilling contest between Neeraj Chopra and Davinder Singh in the men’s javelin throw was the highlight of the second day of the Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships at NS-NIS in Patiala on Friday, 02 June 2017. Both athletes had already qualified for the World Championships but it was Neeraj Chopra who took the honours

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