India's Parul Chaudhary smashed the national record at the Sound Running meet in Los Angeles as she became the first athlete from the country to clock a sub-nine minute time in the women's 3000m event.
Poland's Jerzy Kowalski and Artur Mikolajczewski finished at the top with a timing of 6:43.44s, followed by Spain's Caetano Horta Pombo and Manel Balastegui, who clocked 6:45.71s in repechage 2.
Rudrankksh becomes second Indian shooter to win 10m air rifle gold at Worlds
India's challenge at the Japan Open ended with Sai Praneeth's losing to top seed and home hero Kento Momota in the semi-finals, in Tokyo, on Saturday. The Indian lost 18-21, 12-21 in 45 minutes.
Paralympic star Kumar Nitesh cites BAI apathy, wants badminton to be placed under PCI as para shuttlers needed to be treated on par with their able-bodied counterparts.
The continental quotas are allotted based on a judoka's ranking in the region. Asia has 10 quota slots.
Prakash Desai, Nathan DeSai's father, said his son was depressed because his law practice was not going well.
Rhythm Sangwan staged a fantastic comeback at the back-end of the women's 10m air pistol final to clinch a bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol in Baku.
'The frequent coaching camps... too are contributing to the cause, and constant collaboration is only helping the team get that elusive medal at the Olympics.'
Indian clinches mixed team air pistol gold at World Championship
Last month, the NADA issued a notice on multiple World Championships medallist and Asian Championships gold winner Vinesh Phogat for whereabouts failure for the first time in 12 months. Vinesh has been a part of the RTP since December 2022.
Pranati Nayak said that she is confident heading into the Tokyo Olympics.
Sift Kaur Samra smashed the world record to win the gold medal in the women's individual 50m rifle 3 position shooting event.
The Indian men's table tennis team of Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Achanta Sharath Kamal and Harmeet Desai started their Asian Games campaign on a resounding note, as they demolished Yemen 3-0.
"Bhavina wants to meet Tendulkar and show the medal to him. He is her idol. We are trying to contact him and fix a meeting once we return to India," husband Nikul Patel said.
In a dramatic face-off, agitated weightlifter Monika Devi on Wednesday stormed into the Sports Authority of India headquarters in New Delhi and confronted its Executive Director (Teams) R K Naidu, demanding report of her dope test, which she flunked.
India bagged twenty-four medals, which included six gold medals at the Brazil Para-Badminton International Level II tournament in Sao Paulo.
Veteran powerlifter Farman Basha clinched two silver medals at the Asia-Oceania World Para Powerlifting Open Championships in Pyeongtaek, South Korea on Thursday
Indian triple jumper Selva P Thirumaran improved upon his personal best to clinch the silver medal at the World Under-20 Athletics Championship, in Cali Colombia, on Friday.
The Sports Authority of India terminated the services of Dr P M S Chandran as its medical consultant with immediate effect "for gross indiscipline and spreading disinformation" following the controversy surrounding the pregnancy tests conducted on World Championships-bound women boxers.
President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday congratulated the Indian badminton mixed team for clinching silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Athletes and officials from eight disciplines of archery, badminton, table tennis, hockey, judo, gymnastics, swimming and weightlifting landed in Tokyo
India's lawn bowls team assured itself a historic first-ever Commonwealth Games medal after defeating New Zealand 16-13 in the semi-final of the women's fours event, in Birmingham, on Monday.
Athletics and boxing are the two important disciplines whose national camps are being held at NIS, Patiala.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday, September 29.
Bhavani Devi's impressive run at the Asian Games came to an end in the quarter-finals, suffering a 7-15 loss to local favourite Yaqi Shao.
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Mohit Kumar on Wednesday became the first Indian wrestler to win junior world champion since 2019.
Bajwa, when asked whether Indian grapplers will compete under the United World Wrestling (UWW) flag at the Paris Olympics since the Wrestling Federation of India has been banned by the international body, told PTI that, since the Olympics and Asian Games are multi-discipline events, "they will compete as part of the Indian contingent".
India's shooters opened their account at the Asian Games, bagging the women's team silver in the 10m air rifle event in Hangzhou on Sunday.
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Veteran shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan and young Ganemat Sekhon won gold in the skeet mixed team event, giving India its first medal at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup, in Cairo, on Sunday.
Ghosal recovered from a defeat in the second set to see off Scotland's Greg Lobbon 11-5, 8-11,11-7 11-3
India will organise the Olympics in future, Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said.
Indian pugilists will be determined to overcome the recent setbacks both inside and outside the boxing ring when they aim for the last available tickets to the Olympic Games at the second World Qualification Tournament, starting in Bangkok on Friday.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju tweeted about the classes on Tuesday while a Sports Authority of India (SAI) official explained the motive.
Gautami Bhanot and Abhinav Shaw combined well to claim the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the ISSF Junior World Cup.
Two sparring partners -- her teammates in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a physiotherapist and a masseuse have already been quarantined in the new hostel at the JLN complex.
Meanwhile, teammate Udhayveer Sidhu also made it to the ranking matches but finished fourth to be eliminated. He was seventh in qualification with a score of 569.
Rajeshwari Kumari showed why she is among the best in the country when she earned a seventh 2024 Paris Olympic quota place by finishing fifth in the ISSF World Championship in Baku.
