3000 metre race

Gumla-based athlete Supriti Kachhap bagged a gold medal for Jharkhand at the Khelo India Youth Athletics in Panchkula in Haryana on Thursday by setting a national record in the U-18 3000-metre race by clocking 9.46.14 minutes.

Roller Skating Federation to organise the National Ranking Roller Skating Racing Championship at Krishna Public School on 17, 18, and 19 June 2022. This would be the first official national championship event organised by the Roller Skating Federation of India in the state.

BHOPAL: The extent to which some parents can go to exploit for public display some rare talent or ability in their wards was proved by the dogged persistence of one man, Jagmohan Prasad Paliwal, during the just concluded divisional integrated sports competition at the TT Nagar stadium in Bhopal.

Martina Sablikova became the most decorated Czech Olympian on Thursday at the Beijing Games when she won the seventh speed skating medal of her career - an achievement she hadn't even expected herself.

K Shalini clinched 3000 metres race walk gold in the Indian Oil 33rd South Zone Junior National Athletic Championships at the ANU Grounds, Guntur. Geethu and Kamli secured the second and third spots. In all 913 athletes and 350 officials participated in the meet.

The youngest turf authority in the country, the Mysore Race Club (MRC), is all set to showcase the best weekend of Indian racing, the 'Indian Turf Invitation Weekend' on Saturday and Sunday.

Nikita, who won the silver medal in the 5000m race on the first day of the meet, raised her level of performance to grab gold in 3000m with a timing of 11 minutes and 4 secs.

On a cloudy day at a school in Elgeyo Marakwet county in Kenya's west, children jump over wooden desks serving as hurdles placed on the course of a steeplechase race, as their classmates cheer excitedly from the side. "Yes! That's good!" he shouts when one girl executes the move flawlessly.

It's raining medals in the city with local players doing their best at the inter state athletic championship that was held in Bangalore between June 11 and 14

Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech broke the 5 kilometres world record on Sunday, finishing in a time of 14 minutes 43 seconds round the streets of Monaco to clip one second off the old mark. The 29-year-old Chepkoech, who also holds the world record in the 3,000 metres steeplechase, battled windy conditions with assistance from her pacemaker Luuk Maas.

Irene Schouten of the Netherlands scooped up her second Beijing Olympics gold medal when she won the women's 5000-metre speed skating event on Thursday, as the Dutch team continued to dominate on the ice. For the second time in the Winter Games, Schouten also broke an Olympic record that had stood untouched for 20 years since Salt Lake City.

Britain's Reece Prescod won the 100 metres in a personal best of 9.93 seconds at the Golden Spike athletics meet in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday.