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Manika Batra riding on career-best world ranking, Saudi Smash performance
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The 28-year-old had a successful outing at Saudi Smash last week. Manika made headlines after defeating World No 2 Wang Manyu of China in Saudi
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Very happy to participate in competition in India after three years: Neera
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Olympic and World Championships gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra took to social media on Thursday to express happiness at his triumphant return to national-level competitions with a gold medal at Federation Cup on Wednesday
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Aim is to breach qualification mark for Olympics: Animesh Kujur
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Animesh Kujur made a big splash at the 27th National Federation Senior Athletics Competition by getting personal bests in the 200m and 100m sprints with timings of 20.62s and 10.50s respectively. The 20-year-old is now the second fastest 200m sprinter ever in India's history behind Amlan Bor
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"Want to win gold in Olympics for India": Indian Junior Men's Hockey Team
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The Indian Junior Men's Hockey Team, led by Rohit, will be playing matches in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands between May 20 and May 29. Among the twenty players selected to be a part of the tour is Prince Deep Singh, who has been picked alongside Bikramjit Singh to shoulder the goal-ke
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Neeraj Chopra set to compete in Ostrava Golden Spike athletics meet on May
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
This upcoming meet, which is also a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold label event, is the 63rd edition of the Ostrava Golden Spike competition. On the road to the Paris Olympics 2024, happening from July 26 to August 11 this year, Neeraj kickstarted his season on May 11 with a second-
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Anjum, Swapnil post first win of Olympic Selection Trials
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Anjum Moudgil and Swapnil Kusale, posted their first victories of the ongoing Rifle and Pistol Olympic Selection Trials (OST) 3 and 4, winning the women's and men's 50M Rifle 3 Positions (3P) OST T3 respectively
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Seven Indians including Diksha and Pranavi to tee up in Germany
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Apart from Diksha Dagar and Pranavi Urs, the other Indians are Tvesa Malik, Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall and Sneha Singh, who has received an invitation, as has amateur Avani Prashanth, who also played in the event last year
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Delhi High Court upholds NRAI's Olympic Selection Policy
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
A petition filed by a Shooter challenging her non-inclusion to participate in the Olympic selection Trials was dismissed upholding the NRAI selection criteria/policy for the Olympic Games Paris 2024
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Vinesh Phogat urges WFI, Sports Ministry to announce dates, venue, format
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Vinesh took to X to make this appeal to the centre, WFI, the Indian Olympic Association and the Sports Authority of India (SAI). She first expressed happiness with the fact that India secured a total of six 2024 Olympics quotas in wrestling and congratulated the quota winners as their "ha
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Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik congratulates Neeraj Chopra for winning gold at F
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated Olympic gold medalist and World Champion Neeraj Chopra for securing a gold medal in the men's javelin throw competition in the ongoing Federation Cup on Wednesday.
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"I took four throws only.....": Neeraj following gold medal win at Federat
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Following his win, Neeraj said in the press conference, "The competition was very good. The weather was hot. I had come from Doha. It took a lot of time to recover and travel. That is why I took only four throws because I have to compete once again in 10-12 days. I felt really good playing h
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Neeraj Chopra to compete in national events first time since Tokyo Olympic
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Ace Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra will be competing in the final of the men's javelin throw final of the Federation Cup 2024 athletics meet at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on Wednesday, marking his first appearance at the national-level event since his gold medal at Tokyo Olympi
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