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Beijing secures hosting rights for 2027 World Athletics Championships | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Beijing has been successfully chosen as the host city for the 2027 World Athletics Championships. The decision follows the withdrawal of Rome's bid earlier in the day, as the Italian athletics federation faced challenges in securing financial support from the government.This marks Beijing's second time hosting the World Athletics Championships, with the city previously staging the event in 2015.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe extended congratulations to Beijing, highlighting the city's successful bid and reminiscing about the vibrant showcase of global athletics at the National Stadium in 2015."Congratulations to Beijing on their successful bid to host the World Athletics Championships in 2027, 12 years after our athletes lit up the National Stadium for the 15th editi...
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Slippery take-off board: An issue Indian jumper Murali Sreeshankar had flagged; World Athletics says ‘extensive research’ is on

Following complaints from long jumpers about the take-off board causing them to slip, World Athletics said ‘extensive research’ is ongoing and they are talking to manufacturers and other key stakeholders.Last week, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games silver medalist Murali Sreeshankar had said a more pressing issue World Athletics must address is the slithery take-off board that could cause injuries. Sreeshankar was responding to a proposed plan of World Athletics to use a larger take-off zone instead of a take-off board to reduce fouls in long jump. When asked about jumpers slipping on the take-off board, a World Athletics spokesperson in an email reply said: “Yes, World Athletics began doing extensive research into this issue following feedback from athletes and we are currently discus...
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Kelvin Kiptum: Marathon World Record Holder Kelvin Kiptum and Coach Die in Car Crash | [Publication Name] | More sports News – Times of India

Kelvin Kiptum, the world record holder in marathon and a favorite for the Paris Olympics, tragically died in a car accident in western Kenya, according to police. The 24-year-old was driving from Kaptagat to Eldoret around 11 pm (2000 GMT) on Sunday when the vehicle overturned, resulting in the untimely deaths of both Kiptum and his Rwandan coach, Gervais Hakizimana."The car had three occupants, two died on the spot, while one was taken to hospital.The two are Kiptum and his coach," said Peter Mulinge, police commander for Elgeyo Marakwet County in western Kenya where the accident occurred."It is Kiptum who was driving heading to Eldoret and the vehicle lost control and rolled, killing the two on the spot. A female passenger sustained injuries and has been rushed to hospital," he told r...
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Neeraj Chopra will inspire, but India has to be patient: Colin Jackson | More sports News – Times of India

KOLKATA: Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes to not have won an Olympic gold, although the former 110m hurdler has been a world champions multiple times, a world record holder and has innumerable titles under his belt. The cricketer-turned athlete, though, has no regrets. "It wasn't meant to be," the Welshman, in the city for a sporting event, told TOI on Thursday.The silver in Seoul, 1988, was his best result inOlympic Games, although he participated in three more. He started as the favourite in all of them, but injuries ended his hopes. "That's how athletics is, you have to accept it." Jackson hit the headlines again much after retirement when he came out as gay.Excerpts from an interview:Why did you leave cricket to make a career in athletics?There are quite a few reasons, ...
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Exclusive – ‘Gold ka jo bhaar hai woh alag hai…’: High jumper Nishad Kumar aims for Paralympic gold after Asian Para Games success – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Amid the jaw-dropping landscapes of Himachal Pradesh, renowned for its tourist havens, emerges the inspiring tale of Nishad Kumar. Hailing from the serene Badaun village in the Una district, Kumar has his roots deeply embedded in the agricultural tapestry of the region. Kumar’s journey, marked by early days tending to family fields, took an unexpected turn at the tender age of six when his hand became ensnared in a fodder-cutting machine, leading to the amputation of his arm.Despite these challenges, Kumar went on to etch his name in the history books of Indian sports.At the recent 4th Asian Para Games, Nishad Kumar became a beacon of triumph for India, claiming the gold medal in the Men’s High Jump T47 category—a classification for athletes with a unilateral upper limb impai...
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Hangzhou Asian Para Games, Day 3: Javelin thrower Sumit Antil smashes World Record again, Ankur Dhama wins second gold as Indians bag a whopping 30 medals

The fourth edition of Asian Para Games officially got underway with medal events from 22 October.India had won 14 medals at the 2010 edition, 33 in 2014 and 72 in 2018. In Guangzhou at the inaugural edition, India had won 1 gold while that number went up to 15 in Indonesia. In Jakarta, India finished 9th overall in the medals tally. Historically, much like the Asian Games, track and field have contributed most to the India medal tally at the Asian Para Games. Before the 2023 edition, India had won a total of 119 medals and 60 of those came from athletics. xxxxxxxx On Day 3, India got close to their best-ever tally at the Asian Para Games, raking in a total of 30 medals in Hangzhou on Wednesday. The headline belonged to Sumit Antil, the Tokyo Paralympics champion, as he broke his own Wor...
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Neeraj Chopra nominated for World Athlete of the Year award | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra, who made India proud by clinching Olympic and world titles, has been announced as one of the 11 nominees for the prestigious 2023 World Athlete of the Year award. The selection of nominees was made by an international panel of athletics experts, representing all six continental areas of World Athletics.These nominations highlight the remarkable achievements of athletes during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, various one-day meeting circuits, Label road races, and other global events, as stated by the sport's international governing body.Chopra joins an elite group of athletes vying for the award, including shot putter Ryan Crouser from the USA, pole vaulters Mondo Duplantis of Sweden, 3000m steeplechaser Soufiane El Bakkali ...
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Asian Games: India at unprecedented high on medal table after archers, athletes taste gold

The day began with an arrow piercing the morning chill. It ended with a spear floating across the night sky. And both yielded similar results: a gold medal.The archers ensured India’s best-ever overall medal tally at the Asian Games when the compound mixed team won the gold. The athletes made sure the gold count, too, would be higher than ever before. The track and field athletes, who won seven medals on Wednesday and have a total haul of 29, took India’s medal count to 81 – 11 more than that at the 2018 Games. The 18 gold medals, too, are two more than the previous edition in Jakarta with javelin and relay providing the final push. 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐁𝐔𝐌𝐏𝐒 ❤️❤️❤️ 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲🥇🥇🥇 Witness India’s INCREDIBLE record-breaking moments as we soar higher than EVER at the Asian Games! 81 Medals and...
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Asian Games: Fired up by prospect of government job, Parul Chaudhary aces tactical race to win 5000m gold

Hangzhou: Collectively, they propelled India closer to her best-ever finish at the Asian Games. Individually, the two gold medallists – Parul Chaudhary and Annu Rani – were driven by their deep-lying motivations and frustrations.One was fired up by the prospect of finally landing a government job, the other was consumed by the guilt of ‘wasting’ the government’s money, slipped into depression as a consequence and nearly quit. On a nippy night when India collected half a dozen medals from track and field to take the overall tally to 69, including 15 gold, the two Indian women – both from Meerut – savoured their moments of redemption. When she came prancing out of the bend, Parul had the gold medal within her sights – and the UP Police on her mind. After running 12 gruelling laps on the ...
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Asian Games: Pakistan javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem pulls out due to injury, says Pakistani media

Pakistan’s hopes of winning its first gold medal of the Hangzhou 2023 Asian Games suffered a blow after javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem was reportedly ruled out due to injury. The javelin thrower is one of the biggest names in the Pakistani contingent, and was expected to contend for a gold medal with India’s Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra. However, media reports in Pakistan said that just 24 hours before he was due to compete in Hangzhou, the javelin thrower had pulled out due to a knee injury. The reports cited a statement from the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA), which was attributed to the Pakistan’s chef de mission for the 2023 Asian Games. Arshad’s name though is still in the startlist for the javelin throw event. The reports, on the websites of organisations like Geo...
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Asian Games 2023,Day 9 Live Updates: Mukherjees in action in table tennis semifinal, Parul and Priti look to replicate Sable’s golden feat

Mihir Vasavda at Asian Games: In India’s first medal in women’s skeet, daughters of a fisherman, dry-cleaner & a royal From left, silver medalists India's Rajeshwari Kumari, Manisha Keer and Preeti Rajak celebrate on the podium during the awards ceremony for the Shooting Trap Team Women competitions of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) THE TRAP shooting podium on Sunday demonstrated sports’ unique ability of being a great leveler. At the centre was the daughter of a humble fisherman who developed the patience and synchronization to shoot down flying targets by living a piscatory life. To her right was the daughter of the scion of Patiala royal family. And on the left was the daughter of a dry-cleaner from Itarsi in Madhya Pradesh who is ...
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India at Asian Games 2023, Day 9 schedule: Sutirtha / Ayhika in TT semifinal, more track & field medals on the cards; archery, badminton action

After a dramatic Sunday in Hangzhou, when India won 15 medals in a single day, action continues in full pace at the 19th Asian Games on Monday. After Avinash Sable’s gold on Sunday, it will be over to Parul Chaudhary in women’s 3000m steeplechase where she will also be joined by Priti. Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan are in women’s long jump final, while the mixed 4x400m relay team will look to impress too. Pavithra in women’s pole vault and Amlan Borgohain in men’s 200m are the other athletes in medal events. Also, watch out for Tejaswin Shankar in the decathlon that gets underway on Monday. Table tennis: Women’s doubles semifinal After their stunning win over world champs Chen Meng and Wang Yidi to be assured a horic medal, India’s Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee will be hoping to...
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Asian Games: How Jyothi Yarraji was upgraded to silver in 100m hurdles after false start by favourite Yanni Wu

India’s fastest hurdler Jyothi Yarraji ended third in the women’s 100m hurdles event but was upgraded to a silver medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Sunday after a controversial false start which led to uncertainty about her getting disqualified. The silver medal was finally awarded to Yarraji, but not before she had to make an impassioned case for herself and the race was restarted under the cloud of uncertainty. In the restarted race, Yarraji ended with a time of 12.91 seconds. What had led to the drama was that the race saw a false start by home favourite Yanni Wu, and India’s Yarraji appeared to be reacting to the Chinese hurdler’s cue. Officials initially told both runners that had been disqualified for false start. This led to a audible groan in the stadium, since Wu is one of t...
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Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 8: Aditi Ashok eyes gold in golf, Jyothi Yarraji fails to make the cut for 200m final

The Asian Games weightlifting competition offered a new hierarchy in the 49 kg weight class, one in which the Chinese aren’t at the top and where Chanu isn’t in the top three. (Reuters) Mihir Vasavda at Asian Games, Weightlifting: No luck in China, but will the Paris Olympics lift Mirabai Chanu’s spirits? Mirabai Chanu came to China hoping to win the only medal missing from her cabinet. She returns to India in ‘deep pain’, another injury and more questions than answers over her Paris Olympics prospects. With only two successful lifts in her six attempts, the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist finished fourth with a total of 191 kg (83 kg in snatch, 108 kg in clean and jerk). Chanu can take heart from the fact that she went for a medal despite an injury. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fb...
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Asian Games: Kartik wins silver, Gulveer claims bronze for India in 10000m | Asian Games 2023 News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Indian long-distance runners Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh secured impressive finishes in the men's 10000m race at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Saturday, Kartik earned the silver medal, completing the race in 28 minutes and 15.38 seconds while Gulveer Singh claimed the bronze with a time of 28 minutes and 17.21 seconds.Their remarkable achievements came in the final stretch of the race when three of their fellow competitors fell, opening up an opportunity for Kartik and Gulveer to sneak into medal contention.Bahrain's Birhanu Yemataw Balew clinched the gold medal, crossing the finish line in 28 minutes and 13.62 seconds.Kartik's earlier personal best time was 28:55.00s which he had clocked while winning a bronze in the National Games last year. He had won gold in the National...
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Shot putter Kiran Baliyan wins India’s first athletics medal in Asian Games | Asian Games 2023 News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Kiran Baliyan on Friday achieved a historic feat, becoming the first Indian woman in 72 years to secure an Asian Games medal in the shot-put event on the opening day of the athletics competitions in Hangzhou.In her third attempt, the 24-year-old launched the shot put to an impressive distance of 17.36 meters, securing a well-deserved bronze and inaugurating India's medal tally.Baliyan thus became only the second Indian to win a medal in women's shot put in Asian Games after Barbara Webster, an Anglo-Indian from then Bombay, won a bronze in the inaugural edition in New Delhi in 1951.Baliyan has a season's as well as personal best of 17.92m which she had produced while finishing second in the Indian Grand Prix 5 in Chandigarh on September 10."I did not know the history (first I...
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Mihir Vasavda at Asian Games: Sports where Chinese dominance will be challenged

More than 12,000 athletes from 45 nations will display the cliched Olympic tenets of faster, higher and stronger across the 481 medal events when the Hangzhou Asian Games begin in earnest from Sunday. But when the Games close on October 8, China will top the medals tally, as it has in each of the last 10 editions since the 1982 Delhi Asian Games. The host nation has a 886-athlete strong contingent in the fray. This includes 36 Olympic champions and 630 Asian Games debutants, who will compete in 407 out of the 481 medal events and fight for the 74 Olympic qualification berths across multiple disciplines. India’s ambitious target is an overall tally of 100 medals. For China, nothing less than 150 gold medals will be considered a success. While it will be smooth sailing for China in most...
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Olympic quotas up for grabs in certain events, it would be more than winning medals for some athletes at the Asian Games

A vast majority of the 600-plus strong Indian contingent heading to Hangzhou for the 19th Asian Games will have their eyes on medals. But, beyond that, there will be a few athletes with a bigger picture in mind. Of not just triumph in China, but earning a pathway to France. In a few major Olympics disciplines, there are Paris 2024 quotas available. Events that have direct quota spots are archery (recurve), boxing, hockey, tennis, artistic swimming, breaking, modern pentathlon, sailing, and water polo. Athletics too will see sportspersons qualify for Paris if they can meet the specific standards set out by the governing body. Here’s a look at what is at stake for Indian athletes in some of the major Olympic disciplines. (There are no representatives from India in water polo, breaking and...
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‘Always tough competing with Neeraj Chopra… I’m still dreaming’: Jakub Vadlejch after winning Diamond League title

He was second at the Tokyo Olympics behind Neeraj Chopra, third at the 2023 World Athletics Championships behind Chopra and Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, third behind Anderson Peters and Chopra at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and second behind Johannes Vetter at the 2017 World Championships. But at last on Sunday, 32-year-old Jakub Vadlejch left behind his more illustrious rivals to claim a prestigious title: the Diamond League at Eugene. The Czech Republic thrower won the men’s javelin throw event at the Diamond League meeting, pipping Olympic gold medallist Chopra. “It’s always tough competing with Neeraj, but victory is for me, very valuable. I’m still dreaming. I felt very well. It’s very difficult, especially in my age, I’m almost 33 years old, so it’s difficult but javelin t...
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Neeraj Chopra fails to retain Diamond League title, ends second at Eugene

Neeraj Chopra has set such lofty standards for himself that even a respectable second-place finish in the prestigious Diamond League seems like a disappointment. It wasn’t Neeraj Chopra’s day at Eugene on Saturday as he failed to retain his Diamond League title (with a best effort of 83.80m), finishing second behind Czech power thrower Jakub Vadlejch (84.24m). Vadlejch took the lead in his very first throw before finishing off with an 84.24m as the rest of the field, including Neeraj, never threatened him. Neeraj’s best attempt of 83.80m came in the second round. Although Neeraj would be disappointed on not retaining his Diamond League title, he will still take home a second-place cheque of approx Rs 10 lakh. Two-time world champion Anderson Peters looked like a pale shadow of himself i...