Meteoric rise of Avinash Sable in Fed Cup
Avinash Sable broke his own national record in the 300m steeplechase with a timing of 8:28.94 seconds, shaving off nearly a second on his previous national record of 8:29.80s. Improving his national record with a timing of 8:28.94 seconds in 300m steeplechase, Avinash Sable was in a class of his own at the Federation Cup in Patiala on Monday....
Marathon runner T Gopi qualifies for World Athletics Championships in Doha
India’s Asian marathon champion Gopi Thonakal has qualified for the World Athletics Championships to be held in Doha in September-October after finishing 11th in the Seoul International Marathon. The 30-year-old Gopi clocked his personal best time of 2 hours 13 minutes 39 seconds in the marathon race on Sunday, bettering the World Championships qualification mark of 2:16:00. His earlier...
Siddhanth Thingalaya -Charting an unlikely Olympic journey
On a gleaming afternoon in his one bedroom apartment at Mumbai, Siddhanth Thingalaya frantically looks at all the forms for his Visa and shooting emails to the Athletics Federation of India, just in case he is accepted for the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia. More often than not, he ends up going through the same process of frantic...
Interview with Lalita Babar: “Need to clock 9.10 to hope for Olympic medal”
Lalita Babar in action at the World Championships in Beijing in tAugus earlier this year She may not boast of massive international experience when it comes to participating in the 3,000-metre steeplechase event but ask anyone concerning Indian athletics, they will tell you that Lalita Babar is India’s big medal hope in athletics at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The 26-year-old girl from...
Athletics: Rahul Kumar Pal shatters 5,000m record
Four meet records were set on the second day of the 11th Federation Cup National Junior Athletic Championship at the Shiv Chhatrapati sports complex in Balewadi here on Wednesday. Rahul Kumar Pal rewrote the 11-year-old mark in boys 5,000m, the day’s first event. The lanky athlete from the Army Sports Institute (ASI) here in the city timed 14:16.67s, bettering 14:55.93s...
Pankaj Dimri provides the stunner in the 800m
Patiala, IndiaThe National Senior InterState championships, billed as Final Selection Trials for Indian aspirants for the Commonwealth Games, witnessed some memorable moments at the four-day competition which concluded on Sunday (8). Although he made a couple of appearances in some low-key continental meets since last year, no one predicted Uttarakhand’s Pankaj Dimri (20) to pull out a surprise here, particularly...
