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Gudaf Tsegay breaks world indoor 1500m record in Lievin
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Lievin [France], February 10 (ANI): Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay set a new 1,500 m indoor world record by finishing in 3 minutes 53.09 seconds at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais on Tuesday.
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Munita Prajapati erases fortnight-long pain with National U20 record
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], February 9 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh's Munita Prajapati came into her own in scripting a new National Record in the under-20 women's 10000m Race Walk with a fine victory on the penultimate day of the 36th National Junior Athletics Championships at the Sarusajai Stadium h
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National Junior Athletics Championships: Sunil scripts new record to win g
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], February 8 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh's Sunil Dawar broke a 24-year-old National Record when he won the Under-20 men's 5000m gold in the National Junior Athletics Championships in 14 minutes 13.95 seconds at the Sarusajai Stadium here on Monday.
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Consistent Reshma Patel lowers second National mark in a fortnight
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], February 7 (ANI): Uttarakhand's 16-year-old Reshma Patel rewrote a National Record for the second time in a fortnight when she won the girls (under-18) 5000m event in the 36th National Junior Athletics Championship in the Sarusajai Stadium here on Sunday.
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AFI organises certification course for district technical officials
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): Athletics Federation of India (AFI), in a step towards improving the technical conduct of track and field sport at the grassroots level, is organising a certification course for more than 2,100 district technical officials.
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Zango smashes world indoor triple jump record with 18.07m
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Aubiere [France], January 17 (ANI): World Championships bronze medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango produced the first standout athletics moment of 2021 by sailing to a world indoor triple jump record of 18.07m in Aubiere on Saturday.
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Nikolai Snesarev appointed as Indian athletics' middle and long-distance c
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI): Government has approved the appointment of Belarussian coach Nikolai Snesarev as the middle and long-distance coach of the Indian athletics team.
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Background in athletics has helped me grow as winger: Dangmei Grace
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): Indian women's team star Dangmei Grace may have made a name for herself by leaving a number of flat-footed defenders in her wake, but the 24-year-old has her sporting roots not in the beautiful game, but in track and field events -- more specifically, sh
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Objective of Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics HPC is to produce 'best
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 22 (ANI): Having registered as many as 100 Personal Bests (PBs) at the Sprint and Middle distance Fest over four competitions in October and November, athletes from the Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High-Performance Centre (HPC) in Bhubaneswar re
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World Athletics postpones 2021 World Indoor Championships to March 2023
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], December 10 (ANI): World Athletics (WA) on Thursday announced that they have agreed with the organisers of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing to postpone the event from March 19-21 in 2021 to March 2023.
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COVID-19: Para-athletics coach Gajender tests positive
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): Para-athletics coach Gajender has tested positive for COVID-19, and is under home quarantine currently as he is asymptomatic. His wife para-athlete Simran has tested negative, but is under home quarantine.
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Kandie smashes half-marathon world record in Valencia
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], December 6 (ANI): Kibiwott Kandie on Sunday smashed the world record in the half marathon, clocking 57:32 at the Valencia Half Marathon.
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