Bhubaneswar, March 24 (IANS) With India set to host the 2028 World Indoor Athletics, Bhubaneswar will host the two-day inaugural edition of the National Indoor Athletics Championships, setting the framework for the athletes to prepare for the mega event.The National Indoor Athletics Championships, scheduled to start Tuesday at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, will herald a new beginning in Indian athletics, says Athletics Federation of India (AFI) president Bahadur Singh Sagoo. “Competitors are…
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New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, and Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sport, Smt Raksha Khadse, have expressed their delight at the news that India will be hosting the 2028 World Athletics Indoor Championship at Bhubneswar.The Sports Minister expressed his delight in a social media post starting with the sentence, “The World is coming to India!””Delighted to learn that Bhubaneswar, Odisha, will host the 2028 World Athletics Indoor Cham…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Army’s Harmanjot Singh will be among the 12-member Indian team that will compete in the 18th Asian Cross-Country Championships scheduled for February 21 in Fukuoka, Japan. The Indian team will leave Wednesday for Japan, said Bahadur Singh Sagoo, president of AFI (Athletics Federation of India).The Indian athletes will compete in the senior men’s, women’s, and U20 groups. Harmanjot Singh will compete in the men’s 10km. Aditya Gurjar, Abhinandan Suryavanshi and Karan R…
Ranchi, Jan 24 (IANS) Harmanjot Singh, representing Services Sports Control Board (SSCB), was the winner of the men’s individual 10km event with a time of 30:33 as athletes from Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) dominated the 60th National Cross Country Championships held in Ranchi, Jharkhand, on Saturday.Runners from RSPB were on track to clinch team titles in the senior men and women sections, while the winner in the women’s individual 10km event was Nandani Gupta of RSPB. Her winning ti…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Legendary former track and field athlete P.T. Usha and members of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) mourned the death of Suresh Kalmadi, India’s seasoned sports administrator and former president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), who passed away in Pune on Tuesday. Kalmadi, who was 81, is survived by his wife, Meera Kalmadi, and his daughters and son.He was a prominent leader in Indian sports administration, serving as president of the AFI and the Asian Ath…