MP Jabir

Ace athlete of the Indian Navy, mp jabir has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 400m hurdles after he clocked 49.78s to win gold at the recently concluded Inter-State Athletics Championships in Patiala, a Defence spokesman said on Thursday.

Hima Das extended her sensational run by claiming her fifth gold of the month as she returned to her pet 400m competition with a season-best time of 52.09s on Saturday. The timing is slower than her personal best of 50.79 seconds, which she managed at the Jakarta Asian Games and she also narrowly missed out on the World Championships qualifying mark of 51.80.

Legendary batsman and former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will interact with the Tokyo Olympics-bound Indian athletics team on Tuesday.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Monday announced a 26-member team to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. The athletics events at the Olympics start on July 31 and it will run through August 9. AFI President Adille J. Sumariwalla said that the federation is looking forward to a good show by the team.

Indians continued their strong performance in the Asian Games athletics test event on Monday, adding four gold and a silver to their medal haul on the second day of competition.

It wasn’t the start Indian athletes were expecting as the World Athletics Championships kicked off in Doha on Friday evening, as it proved to be a day to forget for Tamil Nadu sprinter Dharun Ayyasamy, who bowed out in the opening round of the men's 400 m hurdles.

India's mixed relay team finished last in heat with their season-best time of 3:19.93 in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

India's long jumper Murali Sreeshankar finished his heats at the 13th spot with the best jump of 7.69m on Saturday in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. The Indian athlete managed 7.43m in his last attempt after recording 7.51m and 7.69m respectively. As a result, Murali missed out on qualifying for the further stages.

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand's World Championships campaign ended in disappointment as she clocked 11.48 seconds -- one of her worst timings this season -- in the women's 100m heats on Saturday.

After his threat of withdrawal of support to the government, RJD Chief Lalu Prasad met President Pratibha Patil and apprised her of his party's stand on the issue of Women's Reservation Bill.

Star sprinter Dutee Chand, javelin thrower Annu Rani and 400m hurdler mp jabir qualified for the Tokyo Olympics through world rankings as 15 Indian athletes and two relay teams were confirmed for the Games by the sport's world governing body on Thursday.

India's 4x400m mixed relay team scripted history by securing Tokyo Games berth after finishing third in their heat to qualify for the final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha on Saturday. The Indian relay team - comprising Muhammad Anas, VK Vismaya, Jisna Mathew and Nirmal Noah Tom - came up with a season best timing of 3:16.14 in the heat.

Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer Mary Kom, who was in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday for the opening ceremony of the inaugural Kerala Games, vowed to provide free coaching to young and talented boxers from the state at her academy in Manipur.

Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer Mary Kom, who was in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday for the opening ceremony of the inaugural Kerala Games, vowed to provide free coaching to young and talented boxers from the state at her academy in Manipur.

An intense battle among the country's top women long jumpers is expected to unfold during the Indian Grand Prix 4 Athletics Meet at the Kalinga Stadium on Tuesday.

Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will spearhead India’s challenge at the upcoming World Championships in Oregon as the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Thursday named a 22-member squad that included Maharashtra quarter-miler Aishwarya Mishra, subject to her clearing the 400m trials

The first ever Kerala Olympic Games was inaugurated by state Sports Minister V Abdurahiman at the University Stadium here on Saturday.

Para athlete Anandan Gunasekaran won his third gold medal at the ongoing Military World Games in Wuhan, China on Thursday. The 32-year-old Blade Runner from Kumbakonam - who had won two gold medals in the men's disabled 100m and 400m IT1 events on Tuesday - reigned supreme in the 200m IT1 event with a timing of 24.31 seconds on Day 6 of the competition.

Lalu's public statement, seeking an apology from Bhola Prasad Singh for criticising RJD mp jabir Hussain or face expulsion has drawn sharp reactions.

Avinash Sable shattered his own 3000m steeplechase national record but failed to qualify for the final while sprinter Dutee Chand produced a below-par performance to make an exit from the Olympic Games on Friday.

Steeplechaser Avinash Sable and discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur are expected to hog the limelight as they return to competition in the Indian Grand Prix 2 at the Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium here on Wednesday. Sable set the men's 3000m steeplechase national record of 8:18.12 during last year's Olympics while Kaur was the only woman to make it to the final of her event in the Tokyo Games.

For most of the seven-plus laps, including the water jumps, the leading pack of elite athletes were clearly in his sights as Army JCO Avinash Sable ran the race of his life to improve his own national record.

Star sprinter Dutee Chand smashed her own national record, clocking 11.22 seconds in the women's 100m semifinals on her way to the gold medal at the 59th National Open Athletics Championships on Friday.

Punjab’s Kirpal Singh Batth is finally a relieved man. After all, the discus thrower’s years of struggle and patience bore fruit on Tuesday when he managed to hurl the discus past the 61m mark, thereby breaking a two-decade meet record at Kozhikode.

Asian Games gold medallist shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor and two-time Asian 1500m champion PU Chitra will lead a 75-member strong Indian athletics squad in the South Asian Games to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from December 1 to 10.

Punjab’s Kirpal Singh Batth is finally a relieved man. After all, the discus thrower’s years of struggle and patience bore fruit on Tuesday when he managed to hurl the discus past the 61m mark, thereby breaking a two-decade meet record at Kozhikode.

Dharun Ayyasamy bettered his own national record to claim gold medal in the men's 400m hurdles at the 23rd Federation Cup even as eight athletes qualified for the Doha Asian Athletics Championships on the second day of the competition on Saturday.

A little less than a fortnight ago, Dutee Chand finished the heats at a heartbreaking seventh place and lost the chance of a berth in the finals of the World Championships in Doha.

Assam's Amlan Borgohain scorched the track to set a new men's 200m national record by clocking 20.52 seconds on a rain-hit final day of the 25th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships on Wednesday. Avinash Sable, known for excelling in the steeplechase, rewrote the men's 5000m meet record with a fine effort over 13:39.43 that raised expectation.

Avinash Sable ended the 58th Open National Athletics Championships with a new national record, erasing the 37-year-old mark in the men's 3000m steeplechase on Friday.