Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, Day 8.
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.
Chopra opened the competition with an effort of 83.03m before having two foul throws. After a fourth throw of 83.36m, Chopra sent the javelin to 88.07m amid loud cheers from a sizeable audience at the NIS Patiala.
India's leading table tennis player Sharath Kamal, who was ignored for Padma Shri, feels the existing awards application system makes the athletes beg for the honour.
Sunday also proved to be a good day for Delhi's star 400m runner Amoj Jacob, whose winning time was 45.92 seconds.
India-Pakistan peace seem like a pipe dream but it does turn into a reality at sporting events like the ongoing Asian Games
A season-best effort of 19.70 metres gave him the gold medal in shot out at the Asian Athletics championships.
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.
Botswana's Isaac Makwala was refused entry to the London Stadium on Tuesday after earlier being withdrawn from the night's 400 metres final at the World Championships after falling victim to an outbreak of sickness that has hit scores of competitors.
Delhi boy Tejaswin Shankar produced a record-shattering performance as Indians struck two gold and a silver medal to launch their Commonwealth Youth Games campaign on a rousing note in Apia, Samoa, on Monday.
Maharashtra quarter-miler Aishwarya Mishra is giving a torrid time to authorities as she has "disappeared" after winning a gold in the Federation Cup National Championships, last month.
Here are the Indian Super Moms' at the Hangzhou Asian Games beginning on September 23.
India's wushu player Sadia Tariq claimed a gold medal at a junior tournament in Moscow on Friday.
Tennis missed an opportunity to send a strong message to Moscow by failing to impose a blanket ban on players from Russia and its ally Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine, World No 1 Iga Swiatek said.
After being banned for three years, Nijel Amos is selling his Olympic silver medal to support his family.
Kerala's Joseph Abraham ran a career-best race and set a national record in men's 400 metres hurdles but failed to book a berth for the Doha Asian Games.
I can brag about decathlon as now I have the national record: Tejaswin Shankar at his jovial best
Wimbledon will allow Russian and Belarusian players to compete at the grasscourt Grand Slam as 'neutrals' this year.
WFI's ad-hoc panel to work with just one member for at least a week
Athletes to watch at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games:
Images from the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, Day 3, in Oregon.
Neeraj Chopra scripted history by smashing the junior world record in javelin throw en route to a gold medal with a stunning effort of 86.48m at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia said few were trying to steer the movement in a different direction, but refused to name them.
Linthoi scripted history by defeating Brazilian Bianca Reis in the women's 57kg category event final on Friday.
Vinesh, a world championship medallist and Olympian, also claimed that several coaches at the national camp in Lucknow have also exploited women wrestlers, adding that there are a few women at the camp who approach wresters at the behest of the WFI President.
Paris is, and will continue to be, dogged by the usual gripes about staging the greatest show on earth.
Hansle Parchment of Jamaica was second in 13.03 and Olympic champion and world record holder Aries Merritt claimed bronze in 13.04 seconds.
Archer Aditi Swami's parents from Maharashtra's Satara were in a 'suit hunt' at Delhi's Palika Bazar after arriving at the national capital on a frigid winter morning to attend their daughter's Arjuna Award ceremony on Tuesday.
Goof-up at World Championships: Russian anthem played incorrectly.
Several women wrestlers wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the IOA and the ad-hoc panel running the WFI, requesting "fair trials" for Asian Games.
Dutee Chand experienced the shock of her life when she was told by a doctor in November 2021 that level 1 cancer has attacked her body
Pakistan's Ghulam Shabbir won the men's hammer throw with an effort of 59.16 metres and clinched his country's first gold, on the opening day of the South Asian Athletics Championship in Kochi. India's Madhukumar (56.26m) and Jithender Singh (55.61m) had to settle for silver and bronze medals respectively.
Olympic double sprint silver medallist Yohan Blake will only run in the 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow after he withdrew from this weekend's Jamaican national championships, his manager said on Tuesday.
While the performance of pistol shooters was creditworthy, their rifle counterparts were at a different level altogether.
During a felicitation function of World Championships medal-winning wrestlers by Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi on Monday, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan mooted the idea of making wrestling the national sport, which received the backing of double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar.
The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Monday said it has sacked long jumper M Sreeshankar's coach, his father S Murali, owing to the youngster's disappointing Tokyo Olympics performance.
The seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month's Games have all been given wildcard entries.
Dutee Chand joined her illustrious compatriots such as P T Usha in the list of athletes who have won more than one medal at the Asian Games as she added a silver to her kitty after finishing second earlier in the women's 100m dash, in Jakarta, on Wednesday.
Anju set a new meet mark of 6.53 metres at the 46th National Senior Inter-State Athletics championships.
Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn capped a dazzling performance in the 100 metres hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics with a gold medal while Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won the men's long jump title in an action packed Monday morning at the Olympic Stadium
