Madhya Pradesh's ace para canoer, Prachi Yadav delivered a remarkable performance at the ACC Paracanoe Asian Championship 2024, held in Tokyo, Japan and clinched two gold medals for the country.
Indian pickleball athletes have showcased their prowess at the recently concluded US Pickleball Championships with a combined haul of three golds, three silvers and four bronze medals in various categories
WADA made these comments after the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief Travis Tygart accused the agency and other concerned Chinese officials of "sweeping these positives under the carpet" and failing in their mission to make sure rules around drugs in sports are followed, as per CNN.
China's He Jie crossed the finishing line with the timings of 1:03:44 and clinched a gold medal and a cash prize of 5,500 USD. The African trio fell just one second short of victory and secured a joint-second place.
The tournament giving quotas for the Olympics follows a bracket system under which two finalists from each weight category are given quotas for their countries. There is no gold medal or repechage matches, as per Olympics.com.
Abdulla, who secured a gold medal last year in the Asian Athletics Championships held at Bangkok and a silver during Birmingham Commonwealth Games back in 2022, logged the best leap of 16.33 m in China.
Several athletes who tested positive, including almost half of the swimming team that China sent to Olympics, secured medals, including three golds. Many of these swimmers, including two-time gold medalist Zhang Yufei, still compete for China and are expected to play in the Paris Olympics
In the event, three Indian wrestlers made an early exit and India failed to bag a men's freestyle wrestling quota. Two semifinalists from each weight division secure quotas for their country. There are no gold medal or repechage bouts, as per Olympics.com.
Racing at the Sea Forest Waterway, a venue used during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Megha clocked timings of 2:28.027 minutes to finish at third place. Gold and silver medals were captured by Vietnam's Diep Thi Huong (02:18.178 minutes) and Kazakhstan's Ulyana Kisseleva (02:26.645 minutes), as p
A strong medal contender at the Paris Paralympics in August this year, Sheetal finished behind Haryana's Ekta Rani in the final shoot off in the sub-junior girls' section. The teenager lost 138-140 but not before giving Ekta, a world youth champion, a mighty scare
The event, concluding on April 21, will feature 13 Indian athletes. 10 of them will be playing for Olympic quotas. The remaining three athletes will be playing only for medals as they would be involved in non-Olympic categories, as per Olympics.com.