Tag: Athletics

AFI Media 10 April 2018 Gold Coast. After two days of disappointment, the athletics track finally came alive for India at the Commonwealth Games 2018 in Gold Coast- Australia. Mohammad Anas Yahiya ran the race of his lifetime in the final of the 400m at the Carrara stadium and shattered the national record to finish fourth in a world class

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Dharun Ayyasamy’s road through Indian athletics has been full of hurdles. However, he has manoeuvred himself past most of them so far. Not much was expected when Dharun Ayyasami registered his name for the Federation Cup in Patiala earlier this month. Just weeks before the tournament that effectively served as the qualifier for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, Dharun had contracted

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Feb 3, Tehran: Day -3, the final day of the tournament was the best one for India as it notched up more medals in the jump events. In Women’s Long Jump, Nayana James won the Silver with a leap of 6.08m behind Thi Tho Thao Bui of Vietnam (6.20m) who clinched the Gold. India’s Neena Varakil took the last medal

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Feb 2, Tehran: Day 2 of 8th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships witnessed two of our Indian Athletes in action in men’s shot put event. Tajinder Pal Shing Toor the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships’ Silver medallist (19.77m) was in the medal contention along with the Gold medallist(19.80) Ali Samari of Iran, the host nation. It was the same result as Tajinder

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Nov 23, Visakhapatnam: The 15th edition of the National Junior Inter-district athletics championships will be held in Visakhapatnam for the second consecutive time. 14th edition was successfully held at the same venue in 2016. It is the only event for athletics in India where districts participate directly at a national level competition, giving exposure to more athletes. In the 15th

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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

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AFI Media September 25, 2017 Chennai: Day 1 at the 57th National Open Athletics Championships at Chennai’s JLN Stadium saw finals of men’s and women’s 5000m, women’s long jump, high jump and hammer throw, and men’s shot put, apart from the rounds leading up to the finals in other events to be held in the next three days. Railways’ L.

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