Nitender, Khyati sparkle on opening day

Officials blame it on faulty clock; Ranjith Maheswary wins triple jump It was a world class time in the 5000 metres that caught the officials napping, and robbed a full race for the competitors, as the domestic athletics season opened with the Indian Grand ...

Indian athletes ended their campaign in the three-leg Asian Grand Prix with an impressive 12-medal haul, including five gold, in the third meet of the series on Sunday. Woman quartermiler M R Poovamma stole the limelight as she bagged her third gold ...

M.R. Poovamma came up with a rare hat-trick of titles in the women's 400 metres as India won 12 medals, including five gold, in the third and final leg of the rain-marred Asian Grand Prix athletics series in Colombo on Sunday. India wound up with 13 ...

India's M R Poovamma completed a sweep of gold medals in the 400M at the Asian Grand Prix with a fine victory in the final leg here on Sunday. Poovamma, who had won the event in the first two legs in Bangkok and Chonburi, timed 53.30 seconds for her third ...

India's 800M champion Tintu Luka will open her season with the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai on May 18. Tintu, who had reached the semifinals of the London Olympics last year, had earlier planned to kick off her season with the Asian Grand Prix series, ...

Karnataka's MR Poovamma came up with a personal best of 52.75 secs in the 400m but that was not enough as she missed the World Championships qualification by 0.04 seconds on the second day of the Senior Federation Cup athletics in Patiala on ...

The country's top-four male runners broke the 14-minute barrier in the 5,000m track event on the opening day of the 17th Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships in Patiala. The day's honour went to Uttarakhand's Nitender Singh, who breasted ...

National record holder Renjith Maheswary on Saturday bagged his second triple jump gold in a week in the second leg of the Indian Grand Prix athletics meet but failed to touch the World Championships qualification mark here. Maheswary, who had also won gold ...

The qualification marks for the World Athletics Championships continued to be elusive, but M.R. Poovamma lit up the evening with a fine performance in the women's 400 metres in the second Asian Grand Prix at the NIS Complex in Patiala on Saturday.