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Seema Punia faces 16-month suspension by NADA for doping violation
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
As per the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel's official list of sanctioned athletes, the forty-two-year-old's ban will be effective from November 10, 2025.
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World Para Athletics Championships: India's Yogesh Kathuniya wins silver;
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Saudi Arabia's Naif Almasrahi stunned the crowd with a new World Record in the men's 100m T44 final at the World Para Athletics Championships 2025, held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Tuesday. Almasrahi clocked an impressive 10.94 seconds on a morning when F56 Discus Thrower
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Two-time Olympic champion Valarie Allman to be International Event Ambassa
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Star American discus thrower Valarie Allman, who won gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics, has been named the International Event Ambassador for the Delhi Half Marathon 2024, scheduled for October 20.
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Khelo India Para Games: Haryana emerges as champions in inaugural edition,
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
While the Games witnessed star para-athletes who were fresh from their Asian Para Games success in Hangzhou, China, the likes of armless archer Sheetal Devi, discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya, table tennis star Bhavina Patel, Parul Parmar, Nishad Kumar among several others, there were also som
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"He is a true champion": PM Modi congratulates Neeraj Yadav on winning gol
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
After Neeraj Yadav clinched a gold medal in the Men's Discus Throw-F54/55/56 event at the ongoing Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauded the discus thrower for his achievement.
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Wrestlers protest: BJP leaders tore 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' slogan to sh
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have torn the slogan 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' into shreds, alleged gold-medalist Discus thrower and Congress leader Krishna Poonia on Friday, in connection with allegations of sexual exploitation of women wrestlers, Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chai
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Discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur banned for 3 years for use of prohibited su
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Her period of ineligibility starts from March 29, 2022 and all her results since March 7 this year stand null and void
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CWG 2022: Indian discus thrower Seema Punia finishes fifth in women's disc
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Seema Punia registered a throw of 52.28m with her first attempt as she failed to get the elevation during the final push.
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Tokyo Olympian Kamalpreet Kaur provisionally suspended after testing posit
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Star Indian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, who represented the country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last year, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after she tested positive for a banned drug.
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Avinash Sable and Kamalpreet Kaur to return to competition in Indian Grand
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], March 22 (ANI): Steeplechaser Avinash Sable and Discus Thrower Kamalpreet Kaur will have to find comfort in the spotlight being trained mostly on them for the first time since the Olympic Games in August last year as they return to competition in the Indi
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Tokyo Paralympics: Vinod Kumar loses bronze after Technical Delegates deci
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 30 (ANI): Discus thrower Vinod Kumar has lost his medal after the classification panel was unable to allocate the Indian athlete with a sport class on Monday. He is therefore ineligible for the Men's F52 Discus medal event meaning his bronze on Sunday will not count.
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Tokyo Paralympics: President Kovind congratulates Yogesh Kathuniya, Devend
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 30 (ANI): The President of India Ram Nath Kovind on Monday congratulated discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya and javelin throwers Devendra Jhajharia and Sundar Singh Gurjar for bagging medals in Tokyo Paralympics.
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