India grappler Vinesh Phogat is set to play her final against United States's Sarah Ann Hildebrandt after beating Cuba's Yusneylis Guzman Lopez 5-0 in the women's 50kg wrestling semi-finals.
India's top long jump athlete and Commonwealth Games medalist, Murali Sreeshankar, expressed his feelings about missing out on the Paris Olympics 2024.
Reigning Asian Games champion Annu Rani (women's javelin throw) and Rajesh Ramesh (men's 400m) won their respective events, while Jyothi Yarraji topped the qualifiers at the Warszawskie Zawody Lekkoatletyczne 2024 athletics meet in Poland on Saturday.
Asian Games gold medallist Annu Rani and Asian athletics champion Jyothi Yarraji have secured Paris 2024 Olympics athletics quotas for India via their world rankings.
Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports and Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya attended the ongoing 63rd National Inter State Senior Athletics Championship at Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula, Haryana as the Chief Guest.
"My conversation with Mirabai, Annu Rani and Abha convinced me that our athletes have received the best possible support in their preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games," he said.
Indian javelin thrower Annu Rani started her season with a 60.68m mark and finished sixth at the Hylo Javelin Meeting 2024 in Offenburg, Germany on Sunday.
Neeraj Chopra, Avinash Sable, Annu Rani, Murali Sreeshankar and Jeswin Aldrin are also part of the registered testing pool for the first quarter of 2024
Asian Games gold medalist Annu Rani will head back to Germany's Leichtathletik Gemeinschaft Offenburg Centre to train under foreign coach Werner Daniels, Asian Games Silver medalist Dhiraj Bommadevara will head to Korea's Kim Archery School with his coach Sonam Tshering Bhutia later this mon
The 20-year-old Animesh Kujur clocked a new personal best of 20.74s to top the podium ahead of Akshay Nain (20.97) and Shashikanth Angadi (21.14), as per Olympics.com.
The 18th edition of the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon celebrated some of the Asian Games champions at the "Beyond the Finish Line" event in New Delhi on Friday. Asian Games Medallists HS Prannoy, Priti Lamba, Annu Rani, Kartik Kumar, Saurav Ghosal and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar were present a