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Athlete Anju Bobby George wins Woman of Year Award from World Athletics

Legendary Indian athlete Anju Bobby George has been bestowed with the Woman of the Year Award by World Athletics for grooming talent in the country and for her advocacy of gender equality. Anju, the only Indian to have won a medal in the World Championships with a long jump bronze in the 2003 edition, was named for the award in the world body's annual awards night on Wednesday. "The former international long jump star from India is still actively involved in the sport. In 2016 she opened a training academy for young girls, which has already helped to produce a world U20 medallist," World Athletics said in a release. "A constant voice for gender equality in her role as Senior Vice President of the Indian Athletics Federation, Bobby George also mentors schoolgirls for future leadership positions within the sport." Anju said she was "Truly humbled and honoured to be awarded Woman of the Year by World Athletics". "There is no better feeling than to wake up everyday and give back to th

Don't use my name to further propaganda and dirty agenda: Neeraj Chopra

Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra on Thursday said he was pained by the controversy surrounding his comments on Pakistani Arshad Nadeem using his javelin during the Tokyo Games

Will be happy to see Shaili Singh break my record: Anju Bobby George

Small, frail and not even in top three -- that was Shaili Singh when Anju Bobby George first saw her

Amit Khatri wins silver in 10,000m race walk at World U-20 Athletics

Amit Khatri won a silver in men's 10,000m race walk event to clinch India's second medal at the World U-20 Athletics Championship here on Saturday. The 17-year-old Khatri, the national record holder and world U-20 season leader, clocked 42 minute 17.94 seconds to finish second behind Kenya's Heristone Wanyoni (42:10.84) on the fourth and penultimate day of the championships. The mixed 4x400m relay team had won a bronze on the first day of competitions on Wednesday. Khatri was leading after the 9000m mark but the local athlete Wanyoni pulled ahead with less than two laps left in the race to win gold with a personal best time. Paul McGrath of Spain won the bronze with a timing of 42:26.11 minutes. The Rohtak lad rued that he could not produce his personal best of 40:40.97 which he had recorded while winning gold during the Federation Cup Junior National Championships in January. The high altitude conditions in the Kenyan capital had affected Khatri's performance as he struggled for

Hoping to build on unprecedented gains made by javelin throw: Jhajharia

Two-time gold medallist Devendra Jhajharia is aiming to build on the unprecedented gains made by javelin throw at the upcoming Paralympics, following Neeraj Chopra's landmark performance.

Neeraj's coach Klaus says going forward, aim is to be 'stable' in technique

Chopra has rectified most of the shortcomings in his technique and now the endeavour is to maintain technical "stability" to touch greater heights in the coming years, says his coach Klaus Bartonietz

Feeling yet to sink in, says Neeraj Chopra at Athletics Federation function

Tokyo Olympic Games gold medallist, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, said on Tuesday that the feeling had yet to fully sink in that he had achieved a huge career milestone.

After Olympic gold, Neeraj eyes World Championships title next year

Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is now targeting a top podium finish in the World Athletics Championships to be held in USA next year.

Biopic can wait, want to focus on the game for now, says Neeraj Chopra

Chopra, who made history by winning India's first-ever gold medal in athletics at the Olympics, is now setting sight on next year's Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and the World Championships

All eyes on Neeraj to end 100-year wait for Olympic medal in athletics

All eyes will be on Neeraj Chopra to deliver India's elusive Olympic medal in athletics and end a wait of 100 years when he competes in the men's javelin throw final here on Saturday

Indian 4x400m relay team breaks Asian record but fails to qualify for final

India missed out the eight-team final as they ended at ninth spot overall.

Losses in track, wins on field: Another rocky day for USA at Tokyo Olympics

A five-minute burst of action near the backstretch of the Olympic track served up the perfect snapshot of what is going right, and all that is going wrong, for the U.S. track and field team in Tokyo. At one moment in the pole vault pit Thursday night, Katie Nageotte cleared 4.90 meters (16 feet, 1 inch) and went running up to the stands to celebrate a gold medal that had looked like a lost cause only an hour earlier. At the next, just as the 400-meter sprinters approached the halfway point, American champion Michael Norman was steaming so far ahead of the competition, it became clear he could not sustain the pace. He didn't. Norman finished fifth. The U.S. men's sprinters, once the dominant power across the global track game, left the stadium without having won a single gold medal over the first seven days of the nine-day meet. But Nageotte's gold, won in a tense back-and-forth with Russian athlete Anzhelika Sidorova, was the third victory in the field for the U.S., two of which ha

Ryan Crouser sets Olympic record, defends shot put title in Tokyo 2020

Ryan Crouser broke his own Olympic record on his way to defending his shot put title Thursday on a hot day in Tokyo.

Olympics: Not again! US men's team gone after another messy relay

A slow exchange left the American 4x100-meter relay team in an all-too-familiar spot at the Olympics on Thursday out of medal contention

Neeraj qualifies for javelin throw final with superb 1st throw, Shivpal out

Shivpal Singh finished 27th after registering 76.40m in his first attempt

Olympics highlights: It's India men's hockey team vs Germany for bronze

India's men's hockey team will play the bronze medal match on August 5 against Germany.

Tokyo Olympics: New world record by Warholm of Norway in 400m hurdles

Karsten Warholm of Norway has beat his own world record to win the 400-meter hurdles gold medal on Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics

Olympics: Annu misses final of women's javelin throw event, finishes 14th

India's Annu Rani could not qualify for the women's javelin throw final at the Olympic Games, finishing 14th with a below-par throw of 54.04m here on Tuesday.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Ind beats Japan in hockey; Sindhu in semis

Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) assured India of their first boxing medal while Sindhu steps closer to a medal as she enters the semifinals at Tokyo Olympics 2021

Tokyo 2020: 'Wow! Wow!' Women get Olympic track off to a sizzling start

Usain Bolt might be long gone from the sprint scene. It doesn't mean Jamaica has slowed down one bit. Nobody has, at least not on the women's side of the sport. An opening day at the Olympics that's supposed to produce little more than a brisk jog for the world's best at 100 meters turned into something very different Friday. Reigning world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran her heat in the nearly empty Olympic Stadium in 10.84 seconds. Her Jamaican rival, defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, finished in 10.82. And Marie-Josee Ta Lou, the Ivory Coast sprinter who finished an excruciating fourth in Rio de Janeiro, kept saying Wow! Wow! after she crossed the finish line in a blistering personal best of 10.78. They were the fifth, sixth and seventh-fastest times of the year, produced on a day when seven of 54 sprinters hit a personal best all in an opening round designed more for shaking out cobwebs than watching the clock. All that even though the field was missing