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New Delhi, June 22 (Ians) India on Thursday named a 54-member team for the Asian Athletics Championships, to be held in Bangkok from July 12 to 16, featuring star long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, Asian record holder shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor and new decathlon champion Tejaswin Shankar in the national track and field contingent.

The team was picked by the selection committee of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).

At Asian Athletics Championships, the focus will be on Toor, Sreeshankar and Tejaswin, who did very well at the recently concluded Inter-State Athletic Championships 2023 in Bhubaneswar.

On the other hand, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and Commonwealth Games silver medallist 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable were not named in the team as the duo will continue to train abroad for the World Championships in Budapest in August.

As per AFI, the national camp will be organised in Patiala, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram before the Asian Athletics Championships.

Ranchi, May 18 (Ians) For the second consecutive day Andhra Pradesh’s 23-year-old 100m hurdles specialist Jyothi Yarraji hogged the limelight at the 26th National Federation Cup Athletics Championship, claiming a gold medal in the women’s 200m here on Thursday.

A day after winning her pet event, the women’s 100m hurdles, title with a new meet record of 12.89 seconds, Jyothi on Thursday outduelled the top 200m female athletes of the country, including 28-year-old Archana Suseendran, to win her second gold of the Federation Cup. Archana of Tamil Nadu clocked 23.61 secs to win silver.

Jyothi’s gold medal-winning time of 23.42 seconds was better than 23.50 secs, the qualifying mark for the July 12-16 Asian Athletics Championship.

International javelin thrower Rohit Yadav also impressed on Thursday. He was steady in his performance and achieved a personal best of 83.40m to win gold. His previous best was 82.54m. Manu Dp took home silver with an 82.95m throw.

Bathurst (Australia), Feb 17 (Ians) India’s premier long-distance runner Avinash Sable will lead the five-member Indian contingent at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships 2023, to be held on Saturday.

The world cross country championships return after a gap of four years as Covid-19 pandemic forced a two-year delay to the biennial event.

Unlike marathon events, which are held on roads or paths, cross-country running is a sport in which runners race open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

The 44th edition of the biennial event will see more than 400 athletes from about 45 teams compete at Mount Panorama.

Sable, who won silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the Commonwealth Games 2022 with a national record-breaking run, will compete in the senior men’s 10km cross country race on his World Athletics Cross Country Championships debut.

The Indian will be up against a tough field full of elite runners...

Kolkata, Dec 17 (Ians) Defending champion Srinu Bugatha and an in-form runner Sanjivani Jadhav will lead a strong Indian Elite line-up in their respective men’s and women’s category at the 2022 Tata Steel Kolkata 25K to be held on Sunday.

The seventh edition of the Usd 100,000 prize event, which will take place after a gap of two years, will attract a strong field of Indian runners alongside International stars. Srinu, who will aim to defend his Indian Elite men’s title, is well aware of the conditions in the city.

“I am very much confident to defend my title. This race will help me prepare for the Mumbai marathon. It takes really hard work to be a distance runner. I divide my work on daily and weekly basis. These races take a long time to prepare. Efforts of months and years go into making a distance runner. Keeping in mind our body,...

New Delhi, Oct 16 (Ians) Ethiopia’s Chala Regasa and Kenya’s Irine Cheptai emerged winners in the Delhi Half Marathon 2022 — a World Athletics Elite Label Race –clocking 60:30 and 66.42 min, respectively here on Sunday.

It was a photo finish in the ‘Indian Elite’ men’s category between defending champion Avinash Sable and Kartik Kumar, with the duo clocking identical 64 minutes. But it was Sable who was declared the winner by the technical officials of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) after examining the footage.

There were no surprises in the Indian women’s elite section, where Sanjivani Jadhav bagged the crown after two previous podium finishes.

Regasa, 25, came out on top in a thrilling three-man battle over the final kilometre, sprinting away from Kenya’s Felix Kipkoech and fellow Ethiopian Boki Diriba with 400 metres to go to take the USD27,000 prize purse.

Kipkeoch finished second in 60:33 while debutant Diriba,...

New Delhi, Oct 7 (Ians) Avinash Sable, silver medal winner at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022, and Sanjivani Jadhav, a former champion as well as the 2020 edition’s silver medallist, will spearhead a thrilling Indian line-up in the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon, scheduled to be held here on October 16.

The Indian elite category will also see in action Abhishek Pal, winner of the 2018 edition. He is part of the Elite Distance Running Programme driven by Procam International and was also the winner of the Tcs World 10K this year in the Indian elite category.

Not just that, Pal is the newly-crowned champion in 5,000m, with a time of 14:07.25 and clinched the silver medal in 10,000m with a time of 28:54.98 at the ongoing National Games in Gujarat.

In the women’s category, Sanjivani, who won 10,000m gold at the 2022 Federation Cup athletics, will be challenged by Monika Athare, also a former champion.

Gandhinagar, Oct 3 (Ians) Gulveer Singh came up with a doughty effort to win the men’s 10,000m with a Games Record timing in the Athletics competition on Monday, helping Services consolidate their position at the top of the 36th National Games medal tally.

Services, the three-time defending champions, spurted to the pole position for the first time on Sunday, thanks to a good show in rowing and gymnastics.

Gulveer Singh enjoyed a massive advantage over his main rivals, Uttar Pradesh’s Abhishek Pal and Kartik Kumar, as they had to recover from the rigours of their triumphant 5000m run 48 hours earlier.

For much of the race, he tailed his teammates Sawan Barwal as well as Kartik Kumar and Abhishek Pal. He, however, made a decisive shift with about 250m to go to emerge the winner in 28:54.29.

Abhishek Pal spiritedly overtook the leader from the outside but seemed to lose...

Bhopal, Jan 27 (Ians) Haryana's Amit Khatri broke the under-20 national record to take the 10,000m race walk title as the 18th u-20 Federation Cup drew to a close on Wednesday at the Tt Nagar Stadium.

Khatri, 17, clocked 40 minutes 40.97 seconds, winning by nearly half a minute from his state-mate Paramdeep Mor. He improved on the national record of 40:37.78 seconds set by Akshdeep Singh in Ranchi in 2018.

Rajasthan hammer thrower Bhagwati Choudhary missed the national u-20 record and the meet mark by a mere centimeter when she sent the ball and chain soaring over 52.33m. It was the closest anyone got to Seema Jhakar's mark set in Lucknow in July 2009.

Tamil Nadu triple jumper Praveen Chithravel, a Youth Olympic Games finalist in 2018, went past the 16m mark for the first time since March 2019 and got the meet mark with a 16.01m jump on his fourth try.

Chatru Gumnaram (Rajasthan) won the...