Tag: Athletics Meet

New Delhi : India’s star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra added another title to his kitty as he claimed gold at the Sotteville Athletics meet in France on Tuesday. Chopra’s throw of 85.17m was enough to clinch the top spot on the podium, leaving Moldova’s Andrian Mardare behind on the second spot with a distance of 81.48m.Edis Matusevicius (79.31m) of Lithuania

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AFI Media Nov 26, Visakhapatnam: The 15th National Inter-District Junior Athletics Meet concluded today with a record number of participation and several new meet records at the Golden Jubilee Port Trust ground here. A total of 4686 entries were received this year and a record number of 4283 athletes from 424 districts of India participated in 30 athletics disciplines. On

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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

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AFI Media September 26, 2017 Chennai: In what was an action-packed day here at the 57th National Open Athletics Championships, a total of 11 finals for various events were completed throughout the day, with plenty of medals up for grabs. At the end of day-2, Railways lead the points table with a total of 125 points, followed by Services’ (81

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Nagpur : COMPETITIONS at the newly constructed synthetic track at Divisional Sports Complex, Mankapur will begin with the 29th West Zone Athletics Championship from September 16. The first-ever event on the newly-laid international standard track will be flagged off by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. However, it will not be inauguration of the track. Divisional Commissioner Anup Kumar said the

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