D Gukesh credited mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton for helping him tame the 'emotional pressure' of competing at the World Chess Championship.
Long jumper Aldrin and 3000m steeplechaser Parul exit from Paris Olympics
Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly agreed to consider lifting parts of a ban on Russian and Belarusian players imposed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, in a vote on Sunday in Budapest.
The ace high jumper achieved a career-best 1.91 metres in the 44th Inter State National Athletics meet and made the grade.
Shankar's non-participation in the interstate championship shall not be the sole criteria for rejecting him
The world braced up to a post-Bolt era but for India there was no momentous change as the country's athletes did nothing for the global audience to take note of.
Another Haryana athlete, Rahul Kumar, who finished second in the men's 20km race walk event with a time of 1:20:26, also qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
The AFI started National Open Javelin Throw Championships in 2018 and its third edition is scheduled in October this year.
A summary of India's athletes' showing at the Paris Paralympics on Tuesday.
Shankar has trained his eyes on a Paris Olympics berth but for that he will have to achieve a qualifying standard of 2.33 metres.
A former world number one, Panghal has medals in the all big-ticket events barring the Olympics
The women's national wrestling camp will be held at Sports Authority of India's Patiala centre in future following reservations from multiple female grapplers.
Jeswin Aldrin, who had already qualified for the championships, however missed the cut.
TUEs are issued by sports federations and national anti-doping organizations to allow athletes to take certain banned substances for verified medical needs.
All of 102, 'miracle' woman Man Kaur ran her way to a track and field gold medal at a world masters meet in Spain earlier this month, and in true never-give-up sportsperson spirit is already in training for her next competition.
The 27-year-old gold medallist in the 20km race-walk event at the National Inter-State Championships in June, has been asked to return home from Budapest after Athletics Federation of India (AFI) received a notification from NADA regarding the athlete's "whereabouts failure".
A summary of Indian athletes' showing at the Paralympics in Paris on Saturday.
Nadeem had no major sponsorships and months before the Paris Games, he turned to social media to help replace his old javelin for training.
With the two silver and one bronze on Tuesday, India stood fourth in the medal tally with two gold, five silver and six bronze at the end of the third and penultimate day.
Sandeep finishes 23rd, Irfan and Rahul 47th and 51st
The Indian 4x100m women's relay team broke the 18-year-old National record to finish in 4th position at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing on Wednesday. The 4x100m women relay team comprising Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, HM Jyoti and Merlin Joseph clocked 44.03s to finish the race, breaking the 18-year-old record of 44.43s created by the quartet of Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, EB Shyla and PT Usha on July 22, 1998 in Fukuoka, Japan.
'Our lawyers expect to present argument in the case on Monday and they (the lawyers) will deal with the matter accordingly'
She clocked a personal best time of 50.92 seconds on the opening day of the National Inter-State Championships, surpassing the automatic Olympics qualification mark of 50.95 seconds.
World Championship gold-medallist para shuttler Manasi Joshi has strongly criticised former Indian cricketers Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina for allegedly mocking people with disabilities.
Kerley leads home American sweep of men's world 100m final
The situation around Valieva and the Russian team had been 'incredibly distracting' for other skaters.
Promising sprinter Dutee Chand bagged her second gold medal, winning the women's 200 metres, in a clean sweep of medals by Indians at the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on Friday.
Last three weeks have been sleepless roller coaster: Tejaswin after CWG inclusion
Neeraj Chopra will be the cynosure of all eyes as India begins its athletics campaign in the Asian Games
Dutee, who missed the original entry standard of 11.26 seconds, got an invite from the IAAF as the target number of 56 athletes for women's 100m event was yet to be reached for the August 4-13 World Championships in London.
'With an achievement like this, Gukesh could even be endorsing global brands.'
A round-up of all the results from the 16th World Athletic Championships in London
Neeraj Chopra said it was a dream come true to win the World Championships gold medal.
Sunil Gavaskar acknowledged that the 'pressure of expectations' will be high on India in Asia Cup and the World Cup
Johnson clocked 3 minute 35.24 seconds to finish second behind Joshua Thompson of United States at the Olympic Stadium.
India's Avinash Sable qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase after shattering his own National record for the second time in three days though he finished 13th in the final at the World Athletics Championships, in Doha, on Friday.
Sreeshankar could only produce a best jump of 7.62m from his three attempts in the qualification B.
UWW had later said WFI may need to safeguard women wrestlers to get its suspension lifted.
India's 3000m steeplechase record holder Avinash Sable bettered the National 5000m record at the Sound Running Track Meet at San Juan Capistrano, California on Friday.
'Earlier we had set some limitations for us. But now, Indians are capable of doing something magical'
