Bhubaneswar: National record holder Manju Rani of Punjab won gold in the women’s 35km race walk event at the National Inter-State Athletics Championship but failed to breach the Asian Games qualifying mark here on Friday. The 24-year-old Rani clocked 3 hours 21 minutes and 31 seconds under hot and humid conditions to win the event but…
New Delhi: The upcoming tour of Spain will not only help “pinpoint the areas that demand immediate attention” but will also give the junior players a chance to prove themselves and make it to the Asian Games squad, feels Indian women’s hockey team skipper Savita. India will have an opportunity to put their skills and team…
Belmont (Michigan): Aditi Ashok carded a bogey-free round that concluded with an eagle, as she was tied-10th after the first round of the Meijer LPGA Classic. Aditi, who has been playing well this season and is currently in Top-20 of the Order of Merit and in Top-50 of the world, left a few shots out…
Jakarta: India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stunned top seed Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto in straight games to sail into the men’s doubles semifinals of the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 event here on Friday. However, world championship silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the men’s singles competition after going down…
Bhubaneswar: Winner of five successive gold from 2002 to 2018 in women’s 4x400m relay, India is struggling to string together a six-member team for the upcoming Asian Games, and chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair attributed it to the lack of back-up from junior athletes. The reason for the lack of back-up is “burnout” due to “overtraining at…
New Delhi: Ending months of speculation around the Asia Cup, the the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Thursday announced that the tournament will be staged in a hybrid model with four games in Pakistan and nine in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17. The deadlock over the staging of the 50-over tournament was…
New Delhi: Indian cyclist Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam on Thursday created a national record in men’s spring qualification after clocking 9.877 seconds at the Asian Track Cycling Championship in Niali, Malaysia. Ronaldo, who is a part of TOPS (Target Olympic Podium Scheme) finished 10th and qualified for R16 in men’s sprint. “Ace Indian cyclist Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam…
Medellin: Teenage archer Bhajan Kaur grabbed a top-10 finish in the recurve women’s qualification round to brighten an otherwise lacklustre show by the Indians in the World Cup Stage 3. On a day when Koreans led the show on expected lines, the 17-year-old in her debut World Cup season put up a spirited show to…
Bhubaneswar: Kartik Kumar of Uttar Pradesh breached the Asian Games qualifying mark by a fair distance as he won the gold medal in men’s 10000 race on the opening day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championship here on Thursday. Kumar clinched the yellow metal with a timing of 29:01.84 seconds. The 24-year-old Kumar bettered the…
Jakarta: Kidambi Srikanth used his vast experience to quell the challenge of Lakshya Sen in straight games in an all-Indian second round duel to progress to the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 event here on Thursday. It was a hard-fought battle between the two Indians but Srikanth bagged the crucial moments…
