Olympic champions the United States reclaimed their women's 4x400m relay world title as Jamaica suffered more injury heartbreak in the World Championships final on Sunday.*
Four Indian quarter-milers running below 53 seconds augurs well for the country's hopes of winning six straight Asian Games gold in women's 4x400m relay since 2002.
Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa won the men's 400 metres gold in a world record time of 43.03 seconds at the Rio Olympic Games on Sunday.
Athletes lauded for their performances on National Sports Day
The deadline to file nomination papers for the IOA elections ends on Sunday. According to IOA elections returning officer Umesh Sinha no nomination has been filed for any post so far since the process began on Friday.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games on Tuesday, October 3.
Along with Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena, Rohit Yadav and D P Manu have also qualified for the August 19-27 World Championships in Budapest.
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday, October 2.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the women's mile World record, while compatriot Ferdinand Omanyala won the men's 100 metres in a photo finish at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Images from Thursday's proceedings at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
On the opening day on Sunday, fast-rising Rezoana Mallick Heena and Bharatpreet Singh clinched a gold medal each in women's 400m and men's discus throw respectively.
Australia's Stephanie Rice smashed the world record to win gold in the women's 400 metres individual medley final at the Olympics on Sunday.
MR Poovamma was a member of the gold-winning 4x400m women's and mixed relay teams in the 2018 Asian Games and also part of the 4x400m relay squad that won the gold at the 2014 Asian Games.
Nirmala Sheoran produced a forgettable performance in the women's 400m semi-finals to finish among the bottom trio as India's disappointing show in the World Athletics Championships continued on the fourth day on Monday.
Over seven years after an IAF AN-32 aircraft went missing in 2016, scientists at the Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) stumbled upon its debris when they were testing the instruments of their newly-acquired autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for seabed mapping in December.
The Olympic and world champion is convinced he will break Michael Johnson's long-standing 400 metres world record at the Beijing Olympics.
PT Usha set to get elected as IOA chief, first woman occupant of top job
Ganguly surpassed Aryan Nehra's timing of 4:27:62 which he had set at the Nationals last month.
A few Indian stars will have to go through the disappointment of watching all the action from afar.
Britain's Christine Ohuruogu produced a fantastic late fightback to win an emotional gold medal in the women's 400 metres at the world championships on Wednesday.
Forty years after its first edition, the world athletics championships get underway in Budapest on Saturday with over 2,000 athletes from 202 countries taking part over nine days of what could be record-breaking action.
Triple jumper Renjith Maheswary finished sixth in the heats and the women's 4x400m relay team last as India's campaign in the World Athletics Championships ended in Moscow on Friday.
Indian long-distance runners Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh bagged a silver and bronze medal respectively in the men's 10000m race with personal best times at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday.
Olympic champion Felix Sanchez pulled up after the first hurdle clutching his right hamstring.
Shot putter Karanveer Singh will be pulled out of the Indian team for the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok starting next week.
The main reason for any consumer to buy an expensive smartphone is its camera.
The Trinidad-born teenager broke Michael Johnson's 10-year-old 400 metre indoor world record with a time of 44.57 seconds.\n
Save that one-lap race, most of the events at the Open National Athletics Championships lack quality fields.
The 25-year-old Paul produced a best jump of 16.79m in the three attempts he had, and failed to make it to the top eight. His series read 16.37m, 16.79m and 13.86m.
Britain's Christine Ohuruogu snatched victory from defending champion Amantle Montsho with a desperate lunge to the line in the women's 400 metres at the world championships on Monday.
Shankar achieved a national record-breaking overall score of 7666 points to clinch the silver.
'Following AIU charges based on LIMS data, Russian athlete Natalia Antyukh has been banned for the use of a Prohibited Substance/Method. DQ results from 15 July 2012 until 29 June 2013.'
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday, September 30.
World Athletics (WA) banned transgender women from elite female competitions.
Former 100 metres world champion Tori Bowie has died at the age of 32.
Senior India quarter-miler and Asian games medallist MR Poovamma has been handed a three-month ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency for failing a dope test last year.
Yarraji clocked 13.05 seconds -- well below her national record of 12.78s -- to finish seventh in heats
David Rudisha lit up Thursday evening with an 800m World record but despite running one of the great Olympic races, he was eclipsed an hour later when Usain Bolt took to the track.
Aryan Nehra, 19, went on a record-breaking spree at the senior swimming Nationals where he smashed as many as four records in a stupendous campaign.
World silver medallist LaShawn Merritt upset Olympic and world champion Jeremy Wariner for a convincing win in the U.S. Olympic trials 400 metres on Thursday. The 22-year-old Merritt, wearing the U.S. colours of red, white and blue on a necklace, took the lead around 200 metres and surged to victory in 44.00 seconds. Wariner finished second in 44.20 seconds with David Neville third in 44.61.
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