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World Athletics publishes list of approved competition shoes
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], Aug 13 (ANI): World Athletics on Thursday published the list of approved competition shoes, following the amendments to Rule 5 of the Technical Rules announced on July 28 this year.
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Willie Banks donates world record singlet and bib number to Heritage Colle
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], Aug 9 (ANI): World Athletics Council Member Willie Banks has donated the singlet and bib number to the Heritage Collection which he wore in 1985 while setting a triple jump world record.
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Athletics must work hard to hold attention in cluttered landscape: World A
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): The entire track and field fraternity has to work very hard to engage new, especially younger, audiences to attract them to the sport, said World Athletics president Sebastian Coe on Thursday.
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World Athletics sets new dates for postponed series due to Covid-19
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], July 30 (ANI): World Athletics on Thursday approved new dates for the World U20 Championships Nairobi 2020 and the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Minsk 2020.
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World Athletics amends rules governing shoe technology, Olympic qualificat
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], July 28 (ANI): World Athletics on Tuesday announced revisions to its rules governing shoe technology, designed to give certainty to athletes preparing for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to preserve the integrity of the elite competition.
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Nanjing continental tour meet cancelled due to coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], July 26 (ANI): The organisers of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nanjing have announced that the competition will not go ahead this year.
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World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020 launch virtual mas
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Gdynia [Poland], July 24 (ANI): World Athletics and the Local Organising Committee of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020 have launched a new initiative - a virtual mass race on October 17, the same day when the world's elite runners will compete for the championship.
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Took coronavirus lockdown in positive way, did things I wasn't able to do
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Patiala (Punjab) [India], July 12 (ANI): Indian sprinter Hima Das said she looked at the coronavirus-enforced lockdown in a positive way and it allowed her to do things which she was not able to do earlier, due to her daily routine.
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'Bahadur Singh has been inspirational personality for five decades': Kiren
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju on Saturday saluted the legendary Shot Putter Bahadur Singh who recently retired from the post of national chief coach.
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Former coach Bahadur Singh gives credit for rise of Indian athletics to te
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): Indian athletics chief coach Bahadur Singh, who recently ended his stint with Sports Authority of India (SAI), on Saturday said the achievements of the Indian athletics fraternity over the past 25 years were due to the collective efforts.
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Kenya's Wilson Kipsang banned for four years for violating anti-doping rul
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], July 3 (ANI): Kenya's former marathon world-record holder and Olympic bronze medalist Wilson Kipsang has been handed a four-year ban for Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Friday.
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World Athletics freezes Russia panels due to unpaid fine
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], July 2 (ANI): World Athletics on Thursday confirmed that it will stand down both the Doping Review Board (DRB) and the Russian Taskforce, allowing Russian track athletes to compete internationally, due to the non-payment of the fine from the Russian Athletics Federatio
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