Uttar Pradesh’s Shaili Singh competes in women’s long jump event at the Indian Grand Prix-1 track and field competition, at Kanteerava stadium in Bengaluru. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak) NEW DELHI: The first thing Shaili Singh sees on the runway isn’t the crowd, the jumping board or even her rivals. It is a jump that has already…
For the first time since she began her education, Harita Bhadra gave herself a year without having to divide her attention between studies and athletics.Last year, she graduated from Loughborough University in the UK with a BSc in Sports Science, Coaching and Physical Education. This year, she decided to focus only on athletics.The decision has…
File Pic: Tanya Chaudhary (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian athletics received a major boost just days before the Asian Games as Uttar Pradesh’s Tanya Chaudhary shattered the women’s hammer throw national record at the Indian Athletics Series Final on Thursday.Tanya sent the hammer to a distance of 68.35m, bettering the previous national record of 67.02m…
Seema Kaliramna (Image credit: Special arrangement) The 57.44m throw in Bhubaneswar last month did not quite match the 59.73m that Seema Kaliramna had produced two months earlier. Nor did she seem particularly bothered by it.The Bhubaneswar competition was the World Athletics Silver Level Continental Tour meet at Kalinga Stadium on August 22, her first competition…
Kerala’s Ancy Sojan (PTI Photo) New Delhi: Ancy Sojan was around three when Anju Bobby George launched herself into the air at the end of a brisk run-up in Athens and set a seemingly unsurpassable national long-jump record. For much of the two decades that followed, Ancy may not have spent a lot of time…
Tejaswin Shankar celebrates after winning the bronze medal in the men’s decathlon event. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: There were tears after one jump. Days later, there was history, a medal and a message that resonated far beyond the athletics track.Indian decathlete Tejaswin Shankar has opened up on the emotional turmoil he endured at the 2026…
Gulveer Singh after winning silver in 10,000m and (pic right) with coach Scott Simmons (left) after winning bronze in 5,000m Few combinations in athletics are as revered — or as punishing — as the 5000m and 10,000m. Yet India’s Gulveer Singh rode both challenges in Glasgow, adding a bronze in the 5000m to the silver…
Gulveer Singh (Image taken from X) India’s Gulveer Singh created history by winning the silver medal in the men’s 10,000m at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Indian to finish on the podium in the event. His achievement sparked celebrations in his village, with family members expressing pride over his success.His mother, Laxmi, recalled…
Sarvesh Kushare (left) and Tejas Shirse Tejas Shirse will be looking to open India’s medal account in athletics as the track and field events begin at ther Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Monday. Shirse had broken the men’s 110m hurdles national record with a time of 13.27s during Indian Athletics Series in Ludhiana last month, and…
KOCHI/BHUBANESWAR: When Ancy Sojan overhauled a 22-year-old national record in the women’s long jump on Saturday, it shook awake Nattika, a tiny fishing hamlet in Kerala’s Thrissur district.Some 2,000 km away from the sand pit in Bhubaneswar where she had landed with 6.88m, two local auto-rickshaw drivers vicariously fulfilling their own sporting dreams as Kerala…