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AFI Media 26 August 2018 Jakarta (Indonesia). Hima Das added an Asian Games silver to her list of achievements this year after she finished the women’s 400 metres final in Jakarta in a time of 50.79 seconds. It was another national record for the sprinter from Assam, who broke her previous record of 51 seconds that she had set in

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Hima Das created history at the U-20 World Athletics Championships in Tampere, Finland on Thursday, winning the women’s 400m to become the first Indian track athlete to win a gold medal at a global athletic event.  Das clocked 51.46 seconds to beat Romania’s Andrea Miklos who finished a distant second in 52.07 seconds while Taylor Manson of USA trailed further

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All eyes will be on Junior Asian 800m champion Anu Kumar at the Asian Area qualification leg of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on the 4th and 5th of July. Kumar is one of a contingent of 21 athletes – 10 men and 8 women —  who will be looking to secure qualification

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AFI Media 23 May 2018 New Delhi. On 12th May 2018, Penyagolosa, Castellón de la Plana in Spain, was witness to 331 runners from 49 countries, which included 198 men, and 133 women who gently tread their ‘Trails’ at the 8th World Trail Championships. India was not to be left out and was represented by Ullas Narayana, Lokesh Meena, Ajit

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06 May 2018 : Colombo (Sri Lanka). Junior athletes added nine more gold medals to India’s tally before the curtains came down at the 3rd South Asian Junior Athletics Championships at Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. India finished on top in the seven-nation competition with 20 gold, 22 silver and eight bronze medals.  Host Sri Lanka bagged rest of

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AFI Media 05 May 2018 Colombo (Sri Lanka). Indian junior athletes dominated the proceedings on day-1 of the South Asian Junior Athletics Championships (SAJAC) at Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo on Saturday. Indian juniors bagged 11 gold, ten silver and three bronze medals to put India on top of the medals tally. Arshdeep Singh provided India the first gold medal of

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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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