Olympic champion and world record holder David Rudisha ran from the front and trusted his finishing pace to regain the world 800 metres title at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, on Tuesday.
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The squad comprises 17 men and 11 women athletes with some of the other prominent names being Asian Games champions Avinash Sable, Tejinderpal Singh Toor along with sprint hurdler Jyothi Yarraji, to name a few.
Russian athletes are cleared to compete at next year's summer Olympics will do so without their country's flag and anthem.
India's top grappler Bajrang Punia has been handed the top billing in the men's 65kg freestyle category at the World Championships.
In its latest order, the Himachal Pradesh High Court directed the Sports Ministry observer and the Returning Officer to issue a fresh election schedule before April 28, when the case is set to be heard again.
World junior champion Hima Das has been ruled out of the upcoming World Championships due to a nagging back problem.
Mary Kom has been named as the brand ambassador of the upcoming 10th edition of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Women World Championship.
After the high of the Tokyo Games, India's Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has turned her focus on winning a second world championship title and is ironing out the chinks in her armour ahead of the event.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, Day 8.
P U Chitra defended her 1500 metres title to give India its third gold medal while Ajay Kumar Saroj and Dutee Chand won a silver and bronze in the men's 1500m and women's 200m respectively on the fourth and final day of the Asian Athletics Championships, in Doha, on Wednesday.
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National record-holders Gulveer Singh and Parul Chaudhary are also competing in the men's 5000m and women's 3000m steeplechase events respectively, making this the country maximum representation ever in a DL event.
Russian athletes Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova celebrated winning the 4x400 metres gold at the World Athletics Championships by sharing a kiss on the winners' podium at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow.
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.
Sharad Kumar has been training in Ukraine since 2017 in his bid to win a medal at the Tokyo Paralympics, postponed to next year due to the pandemic.
The AFI chief also feels Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra's propensity to live in the moment and the remarkable consistency in his throws make him stand out among some of the best javelin exponents in the world.
India have sent an 84-strong contingent of para-athletes, the largest ever in the country's history -- a heady mix of youth and experience, for the Paralympic Games, starting in Paris on Wednesday.
Asian champion Sunil Kumar, U-23 Asian Championship gold winner Minakshi, and several other Indian wrestlers gathered at Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's residence, requesting his intervention to secure approval for their participation in the upcoming Ranking Series in Albania.
Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games due to 'fitness concerns', the Indian Olympic Association said on Tuesday.
Shaili Singh announced her arrival on the big stage by winning a silver in the Under-20 World Athletics Championships, missing out on a historic gold by a mere 1 cm with a 6.59m effort, in the long jump final in Nairobi on Sunday.
'The monkey is off his back and he is now free to push his limits'.
Johnson clocked 3 minute 35.24 seconds to finish second behind Joshua Thompson of United States at the Olympic Stadium.
Javelin thrower Sachin Yadav of Uttar Pradesh, 18-year-old high jumper Pooja Singh of Haryana and long distance runner Sawan Barwal of Himachal Pradesh rewrote National Games records and won gold medals on the concluding day of athletics competition. Yadav sent his spear to a Games-record distance of 84.39m in his fifth attempt, while Pooja cleared 1.84m to defend the women's high jump gold. Barwal won the men's 5000m in a time of 13 minutes and 45.93 seconds, bettering the earlier Games record.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Tuesday, Day 5.
Haryana's 3000m steeplechaser Priti Lamba was on Monday added to the Indian athletics team for the Hangzhou Asian Games
Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain is facing a weight class dilemma after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) scrapped her current 75kg category for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The boxer will either have to move down to 70kg or bulk up to +80kg.
Sebastian Coe, the head of World athletics and twice Olympic champion over the distance, described the women's World 1,500 metres final won by Kenyan Faith Kipyegon on Monday as one of the best races he has ever seen.
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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.
India's Navdeep Singh claimed gold medal in a dramatic men's javelin throw F41 final while Simran won the bronze medal in the women's 200m T12 final at the Paralympic Games in Paris on Saturday.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra's obsessive pursuit of excellence and a new-found sprint sensation in Hima Das gave Indian athletics audacious Olympic hopes but familiar dope shame kept things in perspective in an eventful 2018.
Murali Sreeshankar is the only third Indian to finish in the top-three of a Diamond League after Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and former discus thrower Vikas Gowda.
Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra expected to breach the 90m mark at the Diamond League final in Zurich but said he was happy to win the trophy, becoming the first Indian to do so.
The Indian government has established two expert committees aimed at elevating the country's sports performance.
Adriyan had won a silver in the 50m rifle prone event on Tuesday.
The British 4x100 relay team at the 2003 world athletics championships were stripped of their silver medal after Dwain Chambers decided not to appeal against his two-year ban for doping.
India now have 19 Paris-bound track and field athletes and the list includes defending javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra among others.
The men's quartet of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Santosh Kumar, Mijo Chacko Kurian and Arokia Rajiv also failed to stand on top of the podium as they clocked 3:05.76 to finish second behind Sri Lanka (3:04.48). Vietnam was third with 3:07.37.
The athlete from Nagaland became the first Paralympics medallist from northeast India. He had also won a bronze medal at the Hangzhou Para Asian Games last year.
