List of the athletes who will represent India at the 29th Olympic Games.
Army runners Neeraj Pal and G Lakshmanan, along with Kavita Raut of ONGC, broke course records while winning men's full marathon, half marathon and women's half marathon, respectively in the 4th Vasai Virar Mayor's Marathon in Mumbai.
All athletes in the Indian team for Athens Olympics are clean, a top Athletics Federation of India official said.
The athletics event gets underway at the Afro Asian Games on Tuesday, but the starting list of foreigners is still unknown.
A 270-strong contingent, including 186 athletes and 43 coaches, will represent India at the Melbourne Games.
Kavita Raut on Friday became the first Indian woman to win an individual medal in track events of the Commonwealth Games as she bagged the bronze in 10,000m race at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
Indian sportspersons will be seen in action in 14 disciplines at the August 13-29 Games.
Anju George won the long jump in the final leg of the Asian GP but failed to attain the qualifying mark for the World Championships in Osaka.
Anju George, Anil Kumar and J J Sobha won gold medals as India scooped up nine medals from athletics.
Samaresh Jung won the men's 10m Air Pistol event to pick his fifth gold medal at the Games.
Two meet records were created on the opening day of the 12th Federation Cup National Athletics Championship on Tuesday.
Shaili Singh finished third with a creditable effort of 6.65m in the women's long jump at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Yokohama on Sunday.
India will send a 17-member team to represent Asia in the second Afro-Asian Games, to be held in Algiers from July 28 to August 6.
The Athletics Federation of India announced a 25-member contingent.
The Athletics Federation of India named 40 probables for next year's World Championship.
Milkha is most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games
It's a downfall for the powerhouse that produced some iconic names such as PT Usha, Shiny Wilson, Anju Bobby George, Rosa Kutty, Mercy Kuttan and Bobby Aloysius among others."
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.
'India has expressed interest to host the 2036 Olympics and 2030 Youth Olympics'
Kareena took to Instagram and shared the news of Chopra's win with a silver medal GIF and clap emoticons.
Hurt by allegations of corruption levelled against her by state Sports Minister E P Jayarajan, India's lone athletics World Championship medal winner Anju Bobby George today resigned as President of the Kerala Sports Council.
Badminton legend Prakash Padukone was bestowed with the Lifetime achievement award at the Sportstar Aces awards function in Mumbai.
Sharath Kamal a 'nondescript sportsman' to be flag-bearer in Paris Olympics, protest TN athletics officials against Kamal as flag bearer
Neeraj Chopra lived upto his favourite billing as the star Indian athlete clinched gold in the men's javelin throw at the ongoing World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday.
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.
The AFI started National Open Javelin Throw Championships in 2018 and its third edition is scheduled in October this year.
The conclave drew valuable insights from former athletes and Olympians, including celebrated ones such as Anju Bobby George, Mary Kom, and Tarundeep Rai, all of whom shared their personal experiences and perspectives on what it takes to excel at the highest levels of sports.
Parul Chaudhary won her maiden 3000m steeplechase title in a major international event to swell India's gold tally to five
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the setting up of a three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) to take over the affairs of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
Tamil Nadu's Praveen Chitravel produced the third longest-ever jump by an Indian with a stunning effort of 17.18m to clinch gold in the triple jump and qualify for the World Championships
Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games due to 'fitness concerns', the Indian Olympic Association said on Tuesday.
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.
Chopra threw a personal best 89.30m at last month's Paavo Nurmi Games before improving it to 89.94m at the Stockholm Diamond League.
India's sportsperson could not perform well in the past due to nepotism and corruption but his government cleaned up the system, he said.
