Star sprinter Hima Das on Saturday suffered an injury scare after sustaining a muscle pull during the 100m heats at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Patiala.
Women's 100 metres world champion and Diamond Race leader Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won.
Parul Chaudhary became only the second Indian female athlete to qualify for the final of a track event at the World Athletics Championships.
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday, October 2.
Antonio Watson won a thrilling World Championship 400 metres gold on Thursday.
Prachi Yadav became the first Indian to win a para canoe gold in the Asian Para Games.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica won his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men's 100 metres on Sunday, crossing the line in an Olympic record 9.63 seconds. Bolt joined Carl Lewis as only the second man to go back-to-back in track's biggest race.
Haryana sprinter Dharambir Singh, who was barred from representing the country in the Rio Olympics at the last minute for failing a dope test, has been slapped an eight-year ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, Day 8.
India's schedule on Day 4 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on August 1, Monday.
The ban on Russia's track and field athletes from the Rio Games will scare drug cheats and help cleaning up the sport, Jamaica's six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt said.
Usain Bolt will have to qualify for the 100 metres at this year's World Cchampionships after Jamaican officials decided the country's automatic entry into the race should go to his training partner Yohan Blake.
Build-up hit by pull-outs and dope flunks, India still hopeful of good show in Asian Athletics Championships from Wednesday
Ryan Murphy lost the second of his Rio backstroke titles to Russian Evgeny Rylov at the 2020 Olympics on Friday and the US swimmer then suggested doping had played a part in his demise as events took an acrimonious turn at the Tokyo pool.
Kerley, hoping to be the first American winner since Justin Gatlin in 2004, ran brilliantly for second, with De Grasse finishing fast in another lifetime best.
Justin Gatlin skipped along the track during his workout, sunglasses on, seemingly without a care in the world.
Adam Peaty demolished his own world record in the heats of the 100 meters breaststroke on Saturday as he launched a bid to become the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal for 28 years. Peaty set a new mark of 57.55 seconds - cutting 0.37 from his previous record, set in London last year - and said he hoped to shave off some more in Saturday's semi-finals.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt believes his first meeting of the season with compatriot Asafa Powell in Paris on Friday will produce the fastest 100 metres of the year.
Triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt will get an early look at the 2011 world championships site when he runs a 100 metres at Daegu, South Korea on May 19, his manager and organisers said on Monday.
Olympic champion Usain Bolt hopes to clock 9.7 seconds in the 100 metres at the Golden Spike meeting in the Czech Republic on Friday as he continues his preparations for the London Games.
Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay safely negotiated the first heats of the 100 metres on Saturday but former world record holder Asafa Powell had a real scare on the opening day of the world athletics championships.
Olympic champion Katie Ledecky stormed to a fifth straight 800m freestyle title at the swimming World Championships in Budapest on Friday while home favourite Kristof Milak added to his 200m butterfly crown with victory in the 100m butterfly.
Condemning homophobia, India's first openly gay athlete Dutee Chand has called for the LGBT+ people to be allowed to live without "fear of persecution or death".
He had finished 13th in the last edition of the championships in Doha in 2019 with the then national record time of 8:21.37.
Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, steeplechaser Avinash Sable, veteran discus thrower Seema Punia and javelin thrower Annu Rani are expected to win medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Desai, a former gold medallist at the Fazza Championships, led from start to finish to end the race in 24.42 seconds, ahead of Thailand's Denpoom Kotcharang (25.78 sec) and Kenneth Jenssen Heggdal of Norway (27.08 sec).
World Athletics (WA) banned transgender women from elite female competitions.
Gay won the race in 9.84 seconds, by an impressive 0.23 seconds, the largest margin of victory in a US championships 100 metres since electronic timing began in 1975.
Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah made Olympic history in Tokyo Tuesday, blazing to victory in the 200 metres to complete an unprecedented women's sprinting "double-double".
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday, September 30.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
Kambala racer Srinivas Gowda, whose running exploits during a traditional buffalo race in Karnataka has evoked a social media frenzy, will be assessed by expert coaches at SAI Center, Bengaluru on the instruction of Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju. Rijiju on Saturday asked the top SAI coaches to conduct a trial of the 28-year-old Kambala jockey Gowda after video clips of him running a distance of 100 metres in just 9.55 seconds have surfaced.
A round-up of all the results from the 17th World Athletic Championships in London
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Day 9.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, Day 7.
Team Australia's Emma McKeon is the first woman swimmer to win 7 medals at a single Olympics.
Ace Indian sprinter Dutee Chand said the Arjuna Award will motivate her to win a prestigious Olympic medal at the Tokyo Games next year.
American Justin Ress won gold in the 50m backstroke in dramatic circumstances at the World Championships in Budapest on Saturday after officials overturned his initial disqualification following a lengthy review.
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