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Wonderful to see enthusiasm for javelin in Bhubaneswar: Neeraj

Olympic and World Championships gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra took to social media on Thursday to express happiness at his triumphant return to national-level competitions with a gold medal at Federation Cup on Wednesday

2024-05-16T16:09:56.525720+00:00 IST

Aim is to breach qualification mark for Olympics: Animesh Kujur

Animesh Kujur made a big splash at the 27th National Federation Senior Athletics Competition by getting personal bests in the 200m and 100m sprints with timings of 20.62s and 10.50s respectively. The 20-year-old is now the second fastest 200m sprinter ever in India's history behind Amlan Borgohain

2024-05-16T15:57:04.828516+00:00 IST

Neeraj Chopra set to compete in Ostrava Golden Spike meet

This upcoming meet, which is also a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold label event, is the 63rd edition of the Ostrava Golden Spike competition. On the road to the Paris Olympics 2024, happening from July 26 to August 11 this year, Neeraj kickstarted his season on May 11 with a second-place finish in the Doha Diamond League, with the best throw of 88.36 m, falling just 2 centimetres short of the winner and Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Jakub Vadlejch.

2024-05-16T14:26:55.050405+00:00 IST

Anjum, Swapnil post first win of Olympic Selection Trials

Anjum Moudgil and Swapnil Kusale, posted their first victories of the ongoing Rifle and Pistol Olympic Selection Trials (OST) 3 and 4, winning the women's and men's 50M Rifle 3 Positions (3P) OST T3 respectively

2024-05-16T14:06:36.596070+00:00 IST

Elorda Cup: Nikhat, three other Indian women boxers enter finals

Nikhat Zareen registered a sensational 5-0 win over Kazakhstan's Tomiris Myrzakul to enter the women's 52kg final at the Elorda Cup 2024. Besides Nikhat, Minakshi (48kg), Anamika (50kg) and Manisha (60kg) also made their way into the finals comfortably

2024-05-16T14:04:44.245890+00:00 IST

Seven Indians including Diksha and Pranavi to tee up in Germany

Apart from Diksha Dagar and Pranavi Urs, the other Indians are Tvesa Malik, Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall and Sneha Singh, who has received an invitation, as has amateur Avani Prashanth, who also played in the event last year

2024-05-16T12:40:55.861577+00:00 IST

McIlroy, Scheffler, Koepka top favourites for 2024’s second Major

It was at this very course that Rory McIlroy won the last of his four Majors. And he returns to the 106th PGA Championships at Valhalla having won his last two starts, including a fourth Wells Fargo win in the hope of ending a Major drought

2024-05-16T12:40:52.837490+00:00 IST

Thailand Open: Satwiksairaj-Chirag, Meiraba reach QFs

The top Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open badminton tournament on Thursday

2024-05-16T12:05:44.898267+00:00 IST

Delhi High Court upholds NRAI’s Olympic Selection Policy

A petition filed by a Shooter challenging her non-inclusion to participate in the Olympic selection Trials was dismissed upholding the NRAI selection criteria/policy for the Olympic Games Paris 2024

2024-05-16T11:20:21.280654+00:00 IST

Vinesh urges WFI to announce dates, venue, format for trials

Vinesh took to X to make this appeal to the centre, WFI, the Indian Olympic Association and the Sports Authority of India (SAI). She first expressed happiness with the fact that India secured a total of six 2024 Olympics quotas in wrestling and congratulated the quota winners as their "hard work, sacrifices, and triumphs have not only brought glory to Indian wrestling but have also inspired countless individuals across the nation."

2024-05-15T17:50:23.058752+00:00 IST

Odisha CM wishes Neeraj Chopra for sealing gold at Federation Cup

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated Olympic gold medalist and World Champion Neeraj Chopra for securing a gold medal in the men's javelin throw competition in the ongoing Federation Cup on Wednesday.

2024-05-15T17:41:42.909445+00:00 IST

"I took four throws only.....": Neeraj following gold medal win

Following his win, Neeraj said in the press conference, "The competition was very good. The weather was hot. I had come from Doha. It took a lot of time to recover and travel. That is why I took only four throws because I have to compete once again in 10-12 days. I felt really good playing here, as I was playing in India after a long time and it was good to see many people come here to support us."

2024-05-15T16:39:01.554258+00:00 IST

Elorda Cup 2024: Indian boxer Abhishek storms into semi-finals

India's Abhishek Yadav produced a dominating performance to enter the semi-finals of the Elorda Cup 2024 after beating Kazakhstan's Rakhat Seitzhan in Astana on Wednesday.

2024-05-15T15:35:14.522997+00:00 IST

Federation Cup: Neeraj Chopra bags gold in men's javelin throw

Chopra bagged the gold, with the best throw of 82.27 m. DP Manu, a silver medalist in the Asian Athletics Championships, bagged the second spot with the best effort of 82.06 m. The Asian Games silver medalist Kishore Jena however could not secure a podium position. Uttam Patil, with a throw of 78.39m, took home the bronze.

2024-05-15T15:29:34.379899+00:00 IST

Thailand Open: 'Sat-Chi' in round two, Meiraba defeats Prannoy

Thailand Open is taking place in Bangkok from May 14 to May 19 this year.

2024-05-15T12:47:13.264110+00:00 IST

Tajinderpal defends his crown, Jeswin bags gold

Indian athlete Tajinderpal Singh Toor defended his men's shot put title at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2024 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

2024-05-15T02:44:53.992265+00:00 IST

Neeraj Chopra to compete in Federation Cup 2024 athletics

Ace Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra will be competing in the final of the men's javelin throw final of the Federation Cup 2024 athletics meet at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on Wednesday, marking his first appearance at the national-level event since his gold medal at Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

2024-05-14T16:22:07.192379+00:00 IST

Grappler Raghav Jamwal sets his eyes on World Championships gold

The combat athlete, who previously competed in the Olympic qualifiers before earning two gold medals in three national grappling competitions in 2021, also helped his country win bronze at the Asian Championships in May in the Philippines.

2024-05-14T15:30:10.746783+00:00 IST

"A potent boost to my Olympics preparations": TT star Manika

Indian table tennis star Manika Batra achieved a career-high world number 24 in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings issued on Tuesday. This is the first time ever that an Indian paddler has broken into the top 25 in singles rankings, as per Olympics.com.

2024-05-14T13:07:05.662475+00:00 IST

Elorda Cup: Boxer Gaurav enters semi-finals, confirms medal

Indian pugilist Gaurav Chauhan moved into the men's 92+kg semi-finals and confirmed a medal after a hard-fought 3-2 win over Danial Saparbay of Kazakhstan on Day 2 of the Elorda Cup 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.

2024-05-14T12:49:45.173032+00:00 IST

Abha Khatua creates shot put national record in Federation Cup

Abha Khatua set a new national record to clinch the gold medal in the women's shot put event at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2024 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on Monday.

2024-05-14T12:20:21.467109+00:00 IST