The AFI started National Open Javelin Throw Championships in 2018 and its third edition is scheduled in October this year.
Anju George, Bobby Aloysius and K M Binu are not among those who have entered the September 10-12 meet in Mumbai.
The ace long jumper said a leg injury cost her the gold in the event at the Asian Games.
The delay in procuring a visa for different countries maty force India's long jump ace to miss a couple of Grand Prix meets.
The ace woman long jumper is looking to salvage pride at the Asian Games in Doha in the coming days.
India's long jump ace's optimism springs from consistency in her jumps.
India's champion long jumper says she is still struggling to find her rhythm.
The 27-year-old star athlete managed a jump of only 6.46m at the Japan Grand Prix in Osaka.
The world number seven long jumper plans to compete in 10-12 events in her build up to the Athens Olympics in August.
World long jump record holder Mike Powell predicts a bright future for the Indian ace.
The leading sportspersons arrived in Hyderabad to add some much-needed glamour to the Afro-Asian Games.
Anju George was again forced to settle for silver in the women's long jump, in the third and final leg of the Asian Grand Prix athletics meet.
With that in mind, India's World Athletics championships bronze medallist said victory is a sure possibility.
The 25-year-old star touched a distance of 6.49 metres to finish second in the Stockholm IAAF Super Grand Prix tournament.
She won the long jump gold medal at the 12th Federation Cup Athletics Championship on Friday.
Neeraj Chopra began his quest for a World Championships gold medal with a false start in the men's javelin throw final in Eugen, Oregon, on Saturday. India's other contestant in the final Rohit Yadav had a throw a 77.95 metres.
The Indian will be up against Olympic champion Tatyana Lebedeva on Friday, in her season opener, the IAAF Super Athletics Grand Prix in Doha.
Indian athletes put in a spirited performance on the international stage in 2004, which saw K M Binu joining Anju Bobby George as the country's future hope.
The world number four long jumper leapt a career best, but wind aided, leap of 6.83m.
Milkha is most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games
Neeraj was all set to defend his title in Birmingham, but pulled out of the multi-sport event after his medical team advised a month's rest after MRI scan showed a minor injury.
'I thought I could throw even over 90m today. But it is okay as I have more competitions coming this year'
Slipping out of the usual top-five was seen as a real possibility in absence of shooting but phenomenal success in athletics and lawn bowls propelled India to a commendable fourth place finish at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham
'I don't think I should think about that, it's up to the people to think'
Murali Sreeshankar became the first Indian male long jumper to qualify for World Athletics Championships finals while 3000 metre steeplechaser Avinash Sable also expectedly made the grade on the opening day of competition, in Eugene, USA, on Saturday.
AFI President Adille Sumariwalla raised the possibility of more athletes outside the national camp taking to banned drugs and laid a lot of blame on the district and state level coaches.
The committee will also be suggesting measures for making the code acceptable to all the stakeholders so that a balance is struck between autonomy of National Sports Federations.
Long jumper Shaili Singh lived up to the expectations as she made it to the finals after topping the qualification round with an effort of 6.40m in the Under-20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi on Friday.
In an interim relief, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the status quo and said the Delhi High Court-appointed three-member Committee of Administrators (COA) will not take over the affairs of the Indian Olympic Association.
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He may have missed out on a gold medal by the thinnest of margins, but the ever-smiling Murali Shreeshankar, who won a historic silver medal in men's long jump at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Thursday, says this is just the beginning; he is hungry for more success.
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Olympic champion Neeraj admitted that his comeback from outside the medal position midway into World Athletics javelin throw final was 'challenging, but he knew that a good throw was around the corner.
Long jumper Anju Booby George expressed happiness on Tuesday after her second place finish at the 2005 Monaco World Athletics Final was upgraded to a gold medal, saying the frustrating time she endured for last nine years was worth the wait.
Shaili Singh's progress as an athlete has a lot to do with her coach Robert Bobby George but it was her "strong and determined" mother, who helped her daughter take first big leap when she sent her to Bengaluru for training, much against the 'advice' of well-wishers.
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