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Anju perform season best jump in Doha Super GP
Doha, 9
May 2008: India’s ace jumper Anju Bobby George registered her season
best performance in the Doha Super Grand Prix with a jump of 6.55m but
it was not enough to finish in medal bracket and had to content with 5th
place.
Russia’s
Tatyana Kotovo took 20 point with a jump of 6.83m
while Brazilian
jumper Maurren Higa Maggi jumped to 6.75m for second place beating Jamaican Chelsea
Hammond who finished third with 6.69m.
For complete results
click here.
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Krishna Poonia attains Olympic “A” qualification in Discus at Salinas
with 63.74m.
Salinas,
CA, May 9,2008: Krishna Poonia flanged 1kg discus to her new personal
best of 63.74m in the Meet No. 3 of USATF Discus Development Series 2008
held yesterday at Hartnell Junior College ground in Salinas while Vikas
Gowda who had set national record of 64.96m at the same place a year ago
failed to take maximum advantage of windy condition (right headwind of 5
m/s) and finished 2nd in Group B and 5th overall
with 64.83m, 13cm short of his National record.
Gerd
Kanter and Stephanie Trafton set World leading mark with 71.88m and
66.17m respectively in this meet. Although no official series are
available. Only each competitor's best throw was measured.
Krishna
Poonia, a 31-year-old from Jappu, Rajisthan has been training in
Concordia University at Portland, Ore., since February with 1976 Olympic
Gold medallist US discus thrower Mac Wilkins said that she will throw
farther in coming meets.
RESULTS
MEN : 1. Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 71.88m WL, 2. Mart Israel (Estonia)
65.03m, 3. John Godina (adidas) 64.99m, 4. Benn Harradine (Australia)
64.95m, 5. Vikas Gowda (India) 64.83m, 6. Casey Malone (Nike) 64.56m, 7.
Brian Trainor (unattached) 64.32m, 8. Niklas Arrhenius (Sweden) 63.72m
WOMEN
:1. Stephanie Trafton (USA) 66.17m WL, 2. Krishna Poonia (India) 63.74
PB, 3. Anna Soderberg (Sweden) 61.58m, 4. Cecelia Barnes (unattached)
59.35m, 5. Kelechi Anyanwu (unattached) 57.24M
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 Doha, May 7,2008:
Anju to embark Bejing journey with
Doha GP
For Anju Bobby George time has come, after long preparatory training
period full of strength workouts, technique correction, runway speed and
ambition to fulfil Nation’s dream i.e. to win an elusive Olympic medal.
Anju will reach Bejing via 10 stops around the world to get into full
force at Olympics to realise Indian dream.
Her first stop
will be in Qatar at Doha Super GP on May 9 where she will take on her
arch rival world champion Tatyana Kotova of Russia followed by series of
competition in Europe.
In 2008, Anju has
cleared 6.50m in front of home crowd during SAF Athletics meet in Kochi
and had won silver in her season opener in Asian Indoor at Doha. She
knows she has to perform beyond magical 7m barrier to remain in the
medal bracket in Bejing in August.
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 New
Delhi, May 7,2008: Indian team for
IAAF World Race Walking cup announced.
Five Members Indian Athletics Team along with two coaches will leave to
take part in the IAAF World Race Walking Cup scheduled to be held in
Cheboksary (Russia) on 10th & 11th May 2008. The athlete will be
participating in the 50 km Walk Event.
Athletes: Chandan Singh, Babubhai Kesharabhai Panucha, Harminder Singh,
Parayil Surendran Jalan,Basanta Bahadur Rana, Coaches: Dr. Nikolai
Snesarev, Harmana Ram
IAAF World Race Walking Cup is one of the Walking Events recognized by
IAAF for Qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games. The
qualifying marks for the Beijing Olympics Games in 50 Km Walking Events
is 4:00.00 (A Standard) & 4:07.00 (B Standard). National record holder
Babubhai Panucha has come closer to Olympic qualification during Indian
Grand Prix in 50000m walk, looking forward to dip below 4:07 in
Chebokasary. |
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 New
Delhi, May 6,2008: Neha Nissar and
Angad Pal
Singh, Delhi's two promising young athletes from Modern school died in
the unfortunate car accident on May 4 at Noida-Greater Noida express
way.
Neha who was National Inter-District champion in 2005 in 400m (
60.52sec) and had won many medals at the State and National level
athletics competitions.
May God bless with peace
to Neha and Angad's family in this time. AFI has its deepest sympathies
to Neha and Angad's family. Read
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New Delhi, April 23,2008:
Athletics Federation of India has carried out the major reshuffle in the
competition calendar of 2008-2009 season. This was done in the view of
major international events to be held in later part of 2008.
Click here to view the updated national
competition calendar Read
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New Delhi, April 23,2008: Athletics Federation of India
has invited sport industry experts in the today's important meeting to
discus about revamping programme of Indian athletics and modernization
of Athletics programme in order to make it more interesting, attractive
& commercially viable for the athletes & spectators. M.S. Gill, Sports
Minister Govt of India will inaugurate the at 9:30am at Casuarina Hall,
Indian Habitat Centre.
New Delhi, April 23,3008: India's ace discus
thrower Krishna Poonia became the 5th Indian athlete to attain the
Bejing Olympic Qualification mark with a throw of 59.04m in the
Mt. SAC
Relays organised by Mt. San Antonio Community College at
Hilmer Lodger Stadium-Walnut, CA in USA.
National record holder Vikas Gowda started the season with modest throw
of 55.54m in
Tennessee Relays organised by
Cedarville University on April 12,2008 at Knoxville, Tenn (USA) .
Click here to view the results |
 New
Delhi, April 8: Newly appointed sports minister M.S. Gill believes
cricket is thriving in the country at the cost of other sports and has
promised to do everything to right the wrong.
“All other sports in the country are suffering because of cricket. I’ll
try to do something to set it right,” Gill said after taking over as
sports minister on Tuesday.
He was also pained by the huge gap in income between cricketers and
other sportspersons. “Money is showered on cricketers but athletes who
win medals in Asian or other international meets don’t get similar
treatment. Appearing in a photograph with the Prime Minister and that’s
it,” he rued.
He also said that making the 2010 Commonwealth Games a grand success
would top his agenda. “Now that we have been entrusted with the
responsibility of hosting the Commonwealth Games, we have to make sure
that it proves a big success,” Gill said. |
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 Ace
Indian runner Manjeet Kaur gets Rs. 34 lakh
Chandigarh, March 28: Ace Indian athlete Manjeet Kaur ( 400m National
record holder 51.05s) got a major boost in her preparations for the
Beijing Olympics when a New Delhi-based real estate group handed her Rs.
34 lakh on Tuesday for her training under an American coach in
California.
The cheque was presented to Manjeet, a Punjab Police Inspector, by
Rohtas Goyal, Chairman of the Omaxe Group in the presence Shiromani
Akali Dal President Sukhbir Badal and State DGP N.P.S. Aulakh. Omaxe has
given the money to Manjeet for her training at the V.S. Athletics Track
Club, California, under famous sprinter Cedric Hill. The training would
last about 75 days, Manjeet said, adding she is preparing for the
forthcoming Beijing Olympics, as well as the 2010 Commonwealth Games and
Asian Games. (PTI) |
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 March
24,2008, New Delhi: Athletics Federation of India has selected India's
top 105 Men and 80 Women for the National Senior Coaching Camp 2008
starting from 1st April 2008 to 31st December 2008. Camps will be held
at NS NIS Patiala
( Punjab), Bangalore ( Karnataka) , Kolkata ( West Bengal) and Delhi.
Selected athletes will undergo vigorous training regime to prepare for
the forthcoming Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in 2010. Bahadur
Singh will be the chief coach while he will be assisted by 53 coaches (
including 8 foreign coaches) . Government of India has drawn up a Rs
802-crore crash scheme to train sportspersons to improve the performance
of the Indian contingent in the Commonwealth Games, 2010 in New Delhi.
Click here to view the list of selected
athletes .
AFI has also selected 83 boys and 91 girls for the important training
camp of the India's youth athletes who will take part in the 3rd
Commonwealth Youth Games to be held at Pune in October 2008. Legendary
athlete Suresh Babu will be chief coach of the juniors. These camps will
be held at Jamshedpur, Patiala and Thruanantapuram from 1st April to
19th May 2008. Click here to view the list
of selected athletes.
All selected athletes are requested to report the camp
before start of the camp. They are also advised to carry their valid
Passport, if held. It may please be noted that Athletes not reporting
for the Camp in time, may not be allowed to join the Camp.
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March 24,2008: Much
awaited inaugural National Youth Games will be held at Bangalore
(Karnataka) from May 10-18, 2008. More than 6000 athletes from all over
India are expected to take part in 21 different disciplines. Athletics
will be the key sports. Last week Karnataka Olympic Association
launched the "Chandu" mascot of the games. Athletes participating in
this event will vie for a spot in the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune
in October this year. All athlete those are born on or after 1/1/1990
will be eligible to take part in the games. |
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 March
24,2008, Pune: Govt. of Maharashtra gives Rs 50,000 Scholarship
For Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) Athletes.
It is a big boost for the 56 state-level athletes who were awarded a
scholarship of Rs 50,000 each by the directorate of sports of Govt. of
Maharashtra recently. The athletes have been scouted for the upcoming
Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) to be held here in October. These
athletes were selected through various state-level camps in all the nine
disciplines of CYG. However, the youths have been given only one half of
the scholarship as the total scholarship money is Rs one lakh. The
remaining cash would be awarded to them once they earn their place in
the Indian team.
Laxmikant Deshmukh, director of sports and youth affairs, said, "The aim
of giving this scholarship money is to boost their confidence and
encourage them to excel. They can utilize it for training, buying sports
equipment." |
Kochi, 8 March: Indian athletes dominated the 3rd South Asian
Athletics Championship which concluded at Kochin today. India's dream
team Women's 4x400m relay continued unbeaten run with a narrow victory
over arch rival Srilanka team who almost snatch title from home team but
in the end Manjeet Kaur's stong strides helped to clinch Gold medal.
Indian team clocked 3:37.04s while Srilanka took silver in 3:37.35s.
Pakistan team was way behind to finish on third place in 3:55.88s. |
South Asian Athletics Championship- Day 1
Kochi - India, 7 Mar 2008: Pakistan's Ghulam Shabir Hussain clinched the
first gold medal of the South Asian Athletic Championships here this
morning. He set the ball and chain touched 59.16m for this effort,
pushed the favorite Madhu Kumar of India to second place.
Shabir's throw was, however, short of his personal best 62.10m achieved
eight years ago! The Indian returned with a paltry 56.26m for the
silver, while his teammate Jitender Singh got the bronze in 55.61m.
Kumar entered the fray with a PB of 64.66m in his name
Earlier a colorful march past by athletes, releasing of balloons and
bursting of crackers marked the opening of the first South Asian
Athletics Championship which began in Kochi on Friday morning. The
march past was led by Bangladesh, followed by Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and finally the hosts India. Middle Distance Runner
Mandeep Kaur led the Indian contingent. Athlete Shiny Wilson lit
the the games lamp at the stadium after a torch relay by Padmini Thomas,
Mercy Kuttan and K M Beenamol. Over 200 athletes are participating in
the two day event |
AFI
Press release: The selection
committee of Athletics Federation of India which met on 01.03.2008 has
selected the athletes as per the enclosed list to represent India in the
South Asian Athletics Championships scheduled to be held in Cochin
(Kerala) on 7th & 8th March 2008.
Other Countries participating in this championships are Afganistan ,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Srilanka.
Click here to view selected athletes. |
 Surendra
, Sinimol complete double- Day 4 of Federation Cup
Bhopal, Feb 29: Sinimol Paulose comfortably pocketed women's 1500m gold
in addition to her 800m win with a timing of 4:23.71s on the final day
of the 14th Federation Cup National Athletics Championship sponsored by
Airport Authority of India held at Tatya Tope Stadium at Bhopal. In the
last final of the day Surendra Singh too complete his double gold by
winning men's 10000m final with a timing of 29:52.69s. C. Hamza faced
another defeat from Ravinder of Delhi in Men's 1500m final. Ravinder won
the event with 3:52.01s while Hamza clocked 3:52.38s. Sinimol Paulose &
Kuldev Singh won the title of best female & male athlete by securing
1096 & 1112 points respectively Jharkhand emerged on top with 11
Gold 3 Silver & 7 bronze while Army Sports Control Board came second
with 7 gold 3 silver and 3 bronze. |
 Bhopal,
February 28, 2008: Finally there was a meet record here at the 14th
Federation Cup Athletics championships here on Thursday. Sudha Singh,
representing Jharkhand, who has been dominating the women's 3000m
steeplechase since its (the event's) inception two years ago, clocked
10:29.92s tow in the gold here. The mark, however, fell short of her own
national record of 10:18.76s, but was better than Santhi Soundarajan's
record of 10:44.76 created in 2006. Rajashree Patil of Maharashtra won
the silver with a timing of 10:50.99.
In men's long jump comeback man Maha Singh secured the gold with a
distance of 7.57m. Returning after more than 18 months, Maha Singh
managed to clear the distance in his penultimate attempt. His sequence
of attempts was 7.39, 7.39, x, 7.43, 7.52, 7.57.
In women's shot put, Seema Antil of CRPF won the gold with 14.17m, while
the silver went to her teammate Saroj Sihag (13.64m). National record
holder in high jump Hari Shankar Roy of Jharkhand managed to clear 2.15m
for his gold, while Bendict Starley of Tamil Nadu (2.11m) won the
silver. |
 Bhopal,
Feb 27: Sushmita Singha Roy of West Bengal not only defended her
heptathlon title in the Federation Cup Athletics Championships
progressing at Bhopal but also attained the "B" qualification norm for
Beijing Olympic Games. Susmita beat teammate Soma Biswas ( 5779 pts) ,
making comeback after marriage and arch rival J. J. Shobha by scoring
5866 points in the women Heptathlon.
"I am happy to have secured the standard here," said Sushmita after her
event. "I hope to do well in the near future." Her coach Dr. Kuntal Roy
was also happy that his ward has qualified for the Olympics this year.
"I hope she does well throughout the season," said Dr.Roy. Her sequence
of attempts are 14.39(100MH), 1.73(HJ), 11.44(SP), 23.97(200M),
6.25(LJ), 40.11(JT), 2:18.28(800M).
As expected. Asian golden girl Sinimol Paulose grabbed her first gold in
800m with season best timing of 2:03.25s ahead of Sushma of Delhi
(2:03.81s) and Bindhu SR of Kerala (2:08.48s). Sinimol, however, did not
obtain the qualifying norm for Beijing in this event. "After the gold, I
hope I will do well in the 1500m," said. In men's 800m, Rajeev
Rameshan of Kerala won the gold with a timing of 1:54.15 followed by
Sajeesh Joseph of Kerala (1:54.18). |
 Nagraj,
Jyothi emerge fastest- Federation Cup Day one
Bhopal, Feb 26: BG Nagraj won the title of the fastest man in the 14th
Federation Cup Athletics Championship in 10.70s beating Jamaluddin
(10.81) and Ritesh Anand (10.87). In the 100m women's event, H.M. Jyothi
of Andhra Pradesh won the gold in 11.89s, while Mandeep Kaur got the
silver with the timing of 11.93sec.
However, in women's 100m hurdles, meet record & national record holder
Anuradha Biswal of Orissa was disqualified for not confirming her
participation in 100m heats held earlier in day. Though she won the
hurdles with a timing of 13.75sec, she had to forfeit her medal. Poonam
Bojanna of Jharkhand, who finished behind Biswal, was declared the
winner with a timing of 14.13s followed by Shreema Priyadharshini
(14.22s). |
 Basant
set 50k walk National record
Patiala, Feb 21: Indian domestic athletic season begin with high note,
Basant Rana Bahadur of SSCB created the new 50KM walk National Record
with a timing of 4hours 10min42sec in the early morning final of Indian
Grand Prix 2008 series held at Patiala. He bettered Gurdev Singh's
two year old record of 4::16:22. But he is still outside of the Bejing
Olympic qualifying mark of 4::07:00. P.S. Jalan finished on the second
place with 4::13:40 while Harminder Singh walked home in 4::14:41s.
Fresh from South Africa training, National Triple jump record holder
Renjith Maheshwary faced another defeat from Amarjeet Singh who won the
silver medal in the recent Asian Indoor at Doha in the men's triple
jump. Amarjeet jumped to 16.30m to grab the first place while Renjith
managed modest 15.83m. Bibu mathew was third with 15.76m.
In the
women's 400m meter, Asian champion Chitra Soman won the gold clocking
53.19s beating Mandeep Kaur (53.47) and Manjit Kaur (53.62).
Click here to view the final
results. |
18.2.2008
India’s Kennedy Chima Ramu finished men’s full marathon on 11th place in
the final leg of Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth challenge
2007/08 (22nd overall) at Hong Kong Marathon with a timing of 2:30.14
sec. Ramu’s effort kept India on top in the South Asia and Middle east
challenge for the fourth year in row in the GROE series. Indian men team
win $ 40,000 cash purse for securing Champion Team title.
17.2.2008
Kochi will host South Asian
Athletics Championships from 6-8 March.
click here to view the championship
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India
emerge Asian Indoor Champion despite single Indoor Arena at Home.
Doha, Feb 16: India won the overall championship title with 5 Gold 9
Silver and 3 bronze medals in the 3rd Asian Indoor Championships in
Athletics concluded at Doha today.
In the evening session Sinimol Paulose, 24 year old reigning Asian, Asian Indoor
Games champion added another title to her kitty with an exhilarating win
over Matsko Mragarita of Kazakhstan in the final of women’s 800m.
Running neck to neck, Matsko made Sinimol sweat out in the last 400m of
the race. Eventually Sinimol shred more than 3 seconds from her personal
best. Sinimol clocked 2:03.43s for first place with championship record. Sushm Devi also from India took over Matsko in the last 50m to finish on
second place with a personal best performance of 2:04.66s while Matsko
settled on third place in 2:04.85s. |
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Doha,
Feb 16: Sinimol Paulose, 24 year old reigning Asian, Asian Indoor Games
champion added another title to her kitty with an exhilarating win over
Matsko Mragarita of Kazakhstan in the final of women’s 800m. Running
neck to neck, Matsko made Sinimol sweat out in the last 400m of the
race. Eventually Sinimol shred more than 3 seconds from her personal
best. Sinimol clocked 2:03.43s for first place with championship record.
Sushm Devi also from India took over Matsko in the last 50m to finish on
second place with a personal best performance of 2:04.66s while Matsko
settled on third place in 2:04.85s
Indian
Women 4x400m relay team won the gold medal for India with a new Asian
and championship record timing of 3:37.46s. Mandeep Kaur started the
race and hand over baton to Manjeet Kaur who failed to extend the lead
achieved by Mandeep and it became Sini Jose’s call to regain the lead
but she failed to do so and finally hand over baton to Asian Games
champion Chitra Soman who ran spirited 2 laps, overtaking Kazak runner
in the last 30m to register an exciting win of the day. Kazaksthan team
finished second with 3:38.10s while Thailand took bronze in 3:43.22s
P. J.
Vinod, Asian Indoor Games champion once again reckoned the same points
achieved in Macau during Asian Indoor Games to win Gold medal for India.
Vinod scored 5561 points to win the gruesome Indoor heptathlon contest.
Sephrzad Hadi of Iran finished on second place with 5515 points while
Hiromasa Tanaka of Japan took bronze with 5306 points.
In the
men’s 800m, Rajeev Ramesan and Sajeesh Joseph opt for leading strategy
to win the race but faded out in the lap due to pressure from Bahrain’s
Kamal Yusuf Saad. Kamal clocked 1:48.03s to equal the championship
record. Iran’s Ehsan won first medal for Iran with silver place in
1:48.68s while Masato Yokota of Japan took bronze in 1:49.30. India’s
Ramesan Rajeev finished fourth with 1:49.46s.
Om
Prakash, participating in his maiden Indoor competition earned silver
medal for India and first continental championship medal for himself in
the final of Men’s Shot Put with a throw of 18.37m which was better than
the championship record. Gholoum Ahmed of Kuwait won Gold medal with a
throw of 18.55m. Yao Yong Guang of China took bronze with 18.16m.
In the
men’s 3000m final Surendra Singh won silver medal with a new personal
best of 7:49.47s, an improvement of more than 15 seconds to his indoor
best. With three Qatari’s in battle, Surender remain with them till end
but in the last curve Sultan Zaman of Qatar spurt ahead Surendra to win
the race. Sultan took 7:49.31s to win Gold while Surendra and James
Kurui of Qatar (7:50.76s) took silver and bronze respectively.
Indian
Men 4x400m relay team won silver for India in the last final of the
Championships with a timing of 3:16.53s. Saudi Arabia’s team proved to
be very strong for India as Saudi runners dominated the race from start
to finish. Saudi Arabia clocked 3:14.25s to register 6th
championship record of the third day. Host Qatar team finished third
with 3:17.93s. |
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 Railways
runners dominates National Cross Country
Goa, Feb 16: India Railways runners dominated the 42nd
National Cross Country Championship held at Goa. Santosh Kumar won the
12km run with a time of 37:49 min , Preeti L. Rao was victorious in the
women's 8km run clocking 29:11min. Maharashtra's Ashok Kumbhare hold
railways runners in men's 4km run where he beat brigade of
railways runners. Ashok clocked 12:01min to win exciting finish. Arvind
Kumar Yadav of Uttar Pradesh claim gold medal in the junior men's 8km
run with a timing of 25:44 min. Click
here to view the complete results.
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 Anju
takes off to realize unfinished dream
Doha, Feb 14:
Anju takes off on her way to realize unfinished dream with silver medal
in the women’s Long Jump final at the Asian Indoors Athletics
Championship in Doha. Anju jumped to win the first medal for India on
the opening day of the Championships.
Anju started with
modest distance of 6.01m, after few more checks on the runway she jumped
to 6.33m in the second attempt. Adding 3cm in the third attempt, Anju
passed 4th jump. Fifth jump was 6.38m, slight improvement and
in the final jump Anju lost her lead to Chinese Chen but pulling all
power together Anju failed to surpass Chen and jumped to 6.37m. Overall
Anju finished on the 2nd place with 6.38m while Chinese Chen
Yaling won the contest with 6.39m. M.A. Prajusha of India won her maiden
international medal with 6.09m |
 Anju
leads Indian team in Asian Indoor Athletics
New Delhi, Feb 13: Long jumper Anju Bobby George will lead a strong
challenge for India in the third Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
starting in Doha on Wednesday. India is fielding a large contingent of
32 athletes, including 15 women, in the three-day championships which
will also serve as the qualifying meet for the World Indoor Athletics
Championships in Spain next month and the Beijing Olympics.
click here to view the team members>> |
 AFI Press Release,
Feb 9 : Athletics
Federation of India, at its Annual General Body Meeting unanimously
elected Mr. Umrao Singh as President and Dr. Lalit K. Bhanot as
Secretary for the term 2008-2012.
Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, Life President, AFI and Dr. Lalit K. Bhanot,
Secretary. AFI will be the permanent representatives of Athletics
Federation of India for Indian Olympic Association, Asian Athletics
Association and IAAF. Mr. Harish Sharma, Joint Secretary, Indian Olympic
Association attended the meeting as Observer.
In a major decision, the Federation has made it mandatory for all the
athletes to attend all coaching camps and also participate in all
competitions organized by the Federation, if selected; failing which
they could face suspension upto a period of one year. This has been done
to encourage athletes to participate in more number of competitions and
to ensure continuity in the training.
The Athletics Calendar for the year 2008 has been approved and the
Federation will conduct 3 international competitions during the year
namely;
1. Senior South Asian Championships at Kochi
2. Junior South Asian Championships at Pune
3. Asian All Star Athletics Meet at Bhopal
The dates of the above competitions will be announced later.
The Federation has also decided to revamp its Athletics Calendar and a
committee has been formed to make the calendar not only meaningful but
also more attractive and conducive to bring sponsors in a big way in
Athletics. This committee will comprise of Mr. Adille J. Sumariwalla as
Chairman, Mr. J.S. Saini and Mr. M.K. Pathak as its members. The
committee will submit its report within 3 months, and will be
implemented in the year 2009 after due deliberations in the House. The
Federation also suggested to introduce prize money in competition to
make it more attractive.
The Federation also discussed its programmes & policies to further
strengthen the same in the short as well as the long term. Further, the
Federation has disaffiliated certain units which did not perform
activities according to the norms fixed by the Federation. The State
Associations have also been directed to disaffiliate those units which
do not conduct their annual district meets and/or do not participate in
the National District Level Championships. |
 Nagpur,
3 Feb: Ashok kumbhare of Maharashtra won 4km run in 12:16.0s on the
final day of the 13th National Federation Cup Cross Country Championship
held at Seminary Hill, Nagpur.
In the women's 4k run, Dimple Naidu of Maharashtra won the run in
15:29.0s. Maharashtra won the overall trophy.
Click here to view results>>
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 Maharashtra
runners dominates Federation Cup Cross Country- Day 1
Nagpur, Feb 2: Mukesh Kumar of Army Sports Control Board surged ahead at
the finish line to beat Irappa D. Akki, 2005 champion in the Men's 12k
event on the first day of the 13th National Federation Cup Cross Country
Championship
commenced at Sesmiri hills at Nagpur, city of Orange. Mukesh clocked
38:09.3s while Irappa timed 38:09.5s. B. C. Tilk also from Amry finished
3rd with 38:09.7s. Army claimed the team championship with 10 point in
Men's 12k.
In the
women's 8km run, Kamlesh Baghel of Uttar Pradesh won the race with a
timing of 30:58.7s.. Maharashtra runners won the team championship in
Women 8k, Boys-20 8km and Girls-20 6k run.
Click here for results of day>> |
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