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13th Federation Cup
Cross Country Championship 2007 Ramnagar-Bangalore, 25th February
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33rd National
Games 2007, Guwahati 11th-15th February-I.G. Athletic Stadium Schedule | Athletes | Meet Records | Final Results Results ( Day 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
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41st National Cross Country Championship 2007 |
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 Vizag,
4th Feb 2007: P. Raghunath of Indian railways won the Men 12k National
Cross Country title beating armymens at the 41st National Cross Country
Championship held at Vizag steel plant. Pampa Chanda retained her women
8k title with an excellent run. Indian railways pre event training camp in Hyderabad has brought good results in the championship. More than 650 athletes from 20 state took part in the championship which is also held for junior age group in order to promote cross country running among juniors. |
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4th
National Inter-District Junior Athletic Meet Day
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 DOHA,
Dec. 12: The women’s relay team anchored India to their seventh gold
medal, finishing first in the 4x400m event, while the men took the
silver in the same event in the Asian Games here today. There were bronze medals won by Sinimole Paulose in the woman’s 1,500m event and army sailor Rajesh Choudhary on the 12th day of the quadrennial sporting extravaganza. The women’s squad of Sati Geetha, Pinki Pramanik, K Chitra and Manjeet Kaur brought India’s first gold in track and field events in 3:32.95 seconds, ahead of the quartets from Kazakhstan (3:33.86) and China (3:33.92). The gold took India’s tally of gold to seven and helped the country climb to ninth in the medals rostrum. India’s tally stood at 7 gold, 16 silver and 19 bronze. Joseph Abraham, Binu Mathew, Bhupinder Singh and T Aboo Backer fetched the silver in the men’s 4x400m relay by clocking 3:06.65sec. Saudi Arabia claimed the gold in 3:05.31 while Sri Lanka stood third in 3:06.97. India’s Ranjeeth Maheswary finished fourth in the men’s triple jump final. Earlier, 23-year-old Sinimole took the third spot behind gold medal winner Maryam Jamal Yusuf of Bahrain and silver medallist Yuriko Kobayashi of Japan in 4 minutes, 15.09 seconds. |
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 Doha:
India ’s best bet Anju Bobby George for the gold medal in the long jump
event could not defend her title whenshe finished a poor second. Her effort of 6.52 metres came only in her sixth and last jump after she was pushed to the third position at the end of the fifth attempt. She started with a jump of 6.36 metres and could improve up to 6.47 metres in the fifth. Kazakhstan’s Olga Rypakova, who beat Soma Biswas for the heptathlon gold medal on Saturday, finished third with 6.49 metres. India’s J. J Sobha ended in the eighth position with 6.13 metres as her best. In women's 400m Manjit Kaur bagged the silver with a season best timing of 52.17 seconds, Pinki missed a chance to grab at least the bronze when she slowed down in the last 20 metres to be pipped at the post by Asami Tanno of Japan. Olga Tereskova of Kazakhstan was the redoubtable winner as she finished the race in 51.86 seconds. Pinki clocked 53.06 seconds. Chitra K Suman failed to qualify for the 200 metres final, Vikas Gowda finished sixth in the men’s discus with a throw of 58.28 metres. Hamza Chatholi came seventh in 1,500 metres despite her personal best time of 3.43.69 minutes. |
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22nd
National Junior Athletics Championships 2006 |
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3rd
National Youth Athletics Championships 2006 |
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18th
National Interzonal Athletics Championship 2006 |
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 NEW DELHI,
Oct 16,2006: : Francis Kibiwott won the New Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday and Lineth Chepkirui claimed the women's title to head a dominant Kenyan field.Kibiwott clocked in at 1 hour, 1 minute, 1.36 seconds, edging past Cuthbert Nyasngo of Zimbabwe at 1:02:30 and John Korir, also of Kenya, at 1:03:16. In the women's category, Chepkirui finished in 1:10:40, ahead of Erkesso Teriba of Ethiopia at 1:11:20. Dire Tune of Kenya finished third in 1:11:53. More than 27,000 people participated in the half marathon, the richest in the world, with prize money totaling $ 150,000. Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, IAAF Council Member and President of Asian Athletics Association flagged off the races while Mrs. Sheila Dixit, Chief Minister of Delhi, gave away the prizes to the winners. |
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46th National Open Athletics Championship
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 New Delhi, October 8, 2006: Indian Railways picked up the
men and women championship trophies at stake on the final day of the 46th
National Open Athletics Championship at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium by
beating strong Services team in men section while left no chance for
women Police team to come even closer in the women section. Bibu Mathew of Services won the title of the Best Male athlete by scoring 1114 points with a win in triple jump (16.29m) while Tamilnadu athlete S. Shanthi bagged the best female athlete title for her superb performance in the women’s 800m final which timed 2:02.21sec. Joseph Abraham won his second gold with a win in 400m hurdles in 51.48sec. In the absence of Anju George, J.J. Shobha won the women long jump title with a jump of 6.32m beating teammate G. G. Pramila who managed 6.19m. |
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Delhi, October 6,2006: L. Deepmala Devi of
Indian Railways set another National Record in the walking event when
she won the women's 20000m walking final with a timing of 1:39:30.5hr.
thus became the first Indian women to walk 20km distance on road as well
as on track in sub 1hour 40 min barrier. Deepamala had started this season
with a record in the women's 20 km walk in the National Endurance
Competition in New Delhi on January 31, 2006. Amindeep Kaur of Punjab came second with 1:48:52.3 while Maharashtra's Supriya Adhak scored bronze in 1:52:04.7hr. In the evening session Women Pole vault was once again center of attraction where V. S. Sureka continued with her record breaking wins when she raised the championship record to 3.85m but failed to clear 3.95m. Citing illness for last 15 days Sureka promised to perform best in chennai during interstate. |
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Delhi, October 5,2006: O. P. Jaisha of Indian Railways set the new
championship record in the women's 1500m run with a timing of
4:11.83sec. on the second day of the National Open Athletics
Championship. She beat favorite Sinimol Paulose ( 4:12.24sec) , Asian Indoor Champion and Asian Championship silver Medalist S. Shanthi (4:22.93sec) representing Tamilnadu.  In the first final of the day, Satyendra Kumar of Indian Railways continued his brilliant series in Men's Shot Put with a winning throw of 18.53m beating veteran Jaiveer Singh who finished on second with a distance of 17.93m. Saurabh Vij, Asian Junior Medalist of Delhi took third place with 17.55m. |
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 New Delhi, October 4, 2006:46th National Open Athletics Championship got off with a big note when Preeja Sreedharan, 24 year old, Indian Railways employee improved on her own National Record in the Women's 10000m run with a timing of 34: 11.45sec beating teammate Preeti L. Rao (second with 36:21.65s) and Madhuri Gurnule of LIC (third with 38:08.95sec.). Preeja had clocked 34:27.13sec at the South Asian Federation at Colombo last month. "My coach feel that I am confident of dipping below 34 minutes but due to today's humid condition I failed short of it but I will break it in the Interstate at Chennai next month" said jubilant Preeja after the race. Earlier in the men's 10000m final, Surender Singh of Services won the race with a season leading timing of 29: 30.48sec. Soji Mathew of Indian Railways won the second place with a personal best timing of 29:35.48sec Another Railway man Santosh Kumar Patel took third place with 29:39.71sec. Surender planned to clock below 29minutes and Kashinath Aswale provided him necessary pace of 70 sec. per round till 6km but after that his pace started declining without any pacemaker resulting into another wait for sub 29 timing in 10000m |
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AFI-Salwan
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New Delhi, September 27, 2006: Athletics Federation of India will be hosting first AFI – Salwan Throwing International Competition at Salwan Throws Academy, Rajinder Nagar on 29th and 30th September 2006. It is likely that athletes from 12 countries will take part in two days competition. A list of the prominent foreign athletes is enclosed. Strong team from China, Poland, Hungary, Iran will be seen in action. Tomasz Majewski Shot Put from Poland who won gold medal in the World University Games in 2005 and European Indoor Gold Medallist will have a strong competition from Zhang Qi from China, who has a personal best of 20.15m and Asian Championship silver medallist Navpreet Singh from India. Men discus will have tough competition among Andnrezej Krawczyk World University Games Silver Medallist from Poland, Abbas Sami from Iran, Asian Games Silver Medallist, Wutao World Junior and Asian Games Gold Medalist will compete for the honour In Javelin Men Indian athletes Jagdish Bishnoi and Anil Kumar will get tough competition from Chinese Rongziang, Asian Games Gold Medallist. Women Discus Thrower Seema Antil and Krishna Punia will get tough competition from China and Croatia. Chinese Hammer Throw World Cup Gold Medalist Gu Yuan will get competition from Hungarian KATALIN DIVOS Silver Medalist of Doha Super Grand Prix 2006 and Polish University Games Bronze Medalist. There will be total over 200 athletes including 50 athletes from abroad. Junior athletes will also be seen in the age group competition. This event will be broadcast live on DD Sports on both days. Click here to view top athletes>> |
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New Delhi, 24 Sept 2006: Competition
schedule for the 46th National Open Athletics Championship has been
finalized . ONAC 2006 will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New
Delhi from Oct 4-8,2006. Click here to
view the schedule.
Note: AFI Selection committee meeting for provisional selection of Indian athletic team for the Doha Asian Games 2006 will be held on 9th October at 2pm at the Conference Hall of AFI office in New Delhi. |
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Athens, September 17, 2006: Indian women relay team failed to repeat the brilliant performance in the 10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics when they finished on the 9th position representing Asian team in the 4X400M relay team clocking 3:38.85s.
Japanese runner Asami Tanno started the race and then Chitra Soman took over in the second exchange and handed baton to Satti Geetha on the 8th place but Geetha faded away in the final exchange and Manjit Kaur could not recover the position and finished on the 9th place. Americas team won the race with world leading mark of 3:19.84s while USA team finished on the second place with 3:20.69s. Russian team finished third with 3:21.21.
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Athens , Sept 16,2006: India's Navpreet Singh finished on the 7th place in the men's shot put event of the 10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics which commenced today at the Athens Olympic Stadium. Navpreet heaved the shotput to the distance of 18.43m in his first attempt followed by 18.23m, 18.21m and 18.05m in the remaining attempts. Ralf Bartels of Europe won the title with 20.67m edging out favourite Reese Hoffa of USA who could manage only 20.60m. Sofin Pavel of Russia took third place with 20.45m In the women's 800m, India's hope Pinki Pramanik could not capture the opportunity of the slow race when she remained struck in the group till 700m mark. Zulia Calatayud of Cuba won the race in 2:00.06s beating season leader Janeth Jepkosgei of Kenya by just 0.03s. Janeth clocked 2:00.09 to win silver medal while Russian Olga Kotlyarova took third place with 2:00.84s. Pinki finished on the seventh position with 2:03.28s. |
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 Athens, 15 September 2006: 2.9Million dollar prized 10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics will commence in Athens Olympic Stadium from tomorrow. India will be represented by Pinki Pramanik ( 800m), Navpreet Singh( Shot Put), Manjeet
Kaur, Satti Geetha and Chitra Soman ( 4x400m relay). Its very special place for Manjeet Kaur, Chitra Soman and Satti Geetha who arrived here today after two day long journey from Kiev ( Ukraine). In 2004 at the same venue these runners had performed the best ever performance by an Indian relay team in the Olympics where they finished on 7 th place in the women 4x400m relay final. "I am so thrilled to come back here and all of us are looking forward to have great run on Sunday evening", said Manjeet Kaur . "Although we are aiming for Doha Asian Games in December and we have been working hard, Athens will provide us an opportunity to test our training results", further Kaur added. Navpreet Singh, Asian rank no. 1 in Shot put with 19.84m is confident of better show tomorrow evening. Navpreet has always done better outside India. "It feels so great to be on World stage, I am sure going to make most of this opportunity", said Navpreet while doing training on the warm up arena. Five throwers out of eight have season best over 20m thus Navpreet will have to add more effort to come close to them in the four attempts available. Reese Hoffa of USA is going strong this season with 22.11m throw while Ralf Bartels of Germany is following him closely with 21.43m. In the women 800m, Pinki Pramanik will try to update her timing which is shuttling between 2:03min and 2:05min in this season. She had won 7 races so far including hatrick at Asian GP circuit. Pinki said "I always like to fight in this two lap race which has all the elements of drama and hence there it will help me to understand tactics involved at this level". Zulia Calatyud of Cuba is leading the season with 1:56.09 followed by Janeth Jepkosgei of Kenya (1:56.66) and Olga Kotlyarova has the power and speed to grab that elusive title. |
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Chennai,
17 June 2006: 
Sacramento
(California), June 10, 2006: Vikas Gowda, a Frederick High School
graduate and University of North Carolina senior, won the Gold Medal in
discus throw in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) meet
here on Friday (9 June).
Pune,
May 25,2006: India’s first Sports city, Pune, is all set to exhibit Asia’s top athletes in the 3rd and final leg of the US $ 50,000 prize money “Asian Grand Prix 2006”, at the newly laid eight-lane synthetics track of Late Baburao Sanas Sports Complex on May 26, 2006 from 3pm onwards.
Bangkok,
May 18,2006: India win 3 gold. 5 silver and 4 bronze medals in the 1st
Asian Grand Prix 2006 held at National Stadium, Bangkok.