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SA's Akani Simbine breaks African 100m record in Hungary
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Szekesfehervar [Hungary], July 7 (ANI): South Africa's sprinter Akani Simbine set a new African record of 9.84 seconds in the men's 100m to win at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet here in Szekesfehervar on Tuesday.
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CAS finds Salwa Eid Naser guilty of whereabout failures
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], June 30 (ANI): The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the appeals filed by World Athletics (WA) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the decision issued by the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal on 14 October 2020.
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World Athletics approves application of 23 Russians to compete internation
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], May 22 (ANI): The World Athletics Doping Review Board on Saturday agreed that the applications of 23 Russian athletes have met the exceptional eligibility criteria to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2021 under Eligibility Rule 3.2 while the
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World Athletics Relays Silesia 21: Indian athletes to miss out due to Covi
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): Indian women's 4 x 100m and men's 4 x 400m relay teams are left stranded at home as the new Covid-19 driven travel bans are put in place by various countries.
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12 cities express interest to host first World Athletics Road Running Cham
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], March 17 (ANI): Twelve cities from around the globe have expressed interest in hosting the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in 2023, the World Athletics Council confirmed on Wednesday.
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Russian Athletics Federation reinstatement plan approved by World Athletic
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], March 1 (ANI): Following detailed work by World Athletics' Russia Taskforce, its independent experts, and RusAF, a final plan for the reinstatement of RusAF to membership of World Athletics was recommended to the World Athletics Council last week. World Athletics' Coun
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Priyanka Goswami, Sandeep Kumar, break national records, qualify for Tokyo
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], February 13 (ANI): Sandeep Kumar (Haryana) and Priyanka Goswami (Uttar Pradesh) became the first Indian athletes to qualify for next year's World Athletics Championships Oregon22 when they broke the men and women's 20km Race Walk National Records respectively on t
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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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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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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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Duplantis and Rojas named World Athletes of the Year
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], December 5 (ANI): World record-breakers Mondo Duplantis of Sweden and Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year respectively at the World Athletics Awards 2020, a ceremony held virtually on Saturday.
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Ethiopia's Yehualaw runs second fastest women's half marathon at ADHM
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 29 (ANI): Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw produced a stunning run over in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2020, a World Athletics gold label road race, to clock the second-fastest women's time ever over the distance when she crossed the line in the Indian capital in
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