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10K/ Half Marathon /
Marathons in India
Mumbai | Delhi
| Delhi 1| Delhi
2 | Chennai | Chennai
1 | Bangalore
| Hyderabad | Nagpur
| Kolkata | Chandigarh
| Allahabad | Baroda
| Pune | Calicut
| Kochi | Mysore
| Nasik | Mangalore | Noida
| Sikkim | Imphal
| Aurangabad
| Shimla
| Madurai | Jaipur
| Goa | Agra | Lucknow
| Kanpur | Jalandhar
| Indore
| Thiruvananthapuram
| Huubali | Alibaug
| Agra | Belgaum
| Thane | Bubaneswar
| Jodhpur |
Coimbatore |
Darjeeling | Faridabad
| Ghaziabad | Guwahati
| Madikeri ( Coorg)
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Indian
Athletics Calendar 2010
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AFI announce Indian Athletic team for
Commonwealth Games 2010
Aug 31, 2010: Athletics Federation of India announced 90 member
Indian athletic team for the 19th Commonwealth Games 2010 to be
held at New Delhi from 3rd Oct. Four athletes from Maharashtra
figured in the list including Siddhant Thingalaya from Mumbai. Click
here to view the list of selected athletes>>
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 Tintu
set new personal best in 800m. Fastest time by an Indian women
runner in 13 years.
Bruxelles, 27 Aug 2010: Adopting start to finish lead strategy,
India's Tintu Luka made most of her maiden appearance in the IAAF
Diamond League with a new personal best timing of 2:00.79sec.
However this brought her only 8th place in the race ,won by Kenyan
Janeth Jepkosgei with 1:58.82sec.
Tintu, starting in lane one, shoot her first 400m in 56.4sec and
was leading till 600m with 1:28.03sec but faded in the last 200m to
finish on the eight place in 2:00.79sec.
Tintu now rank third in Indian all time list behind legendary
Shiny Wilson and Rosa Kutty. It took thirteen years to see an
Indian women to run 800m under 2min 1sec. Tintu Luka, trained by P
T Usha have tough task to perform in front of home crowd in the
Commonwealth Games as she is pitted against British and Kenyan
runners who are running under two minutes on regular basis this
season. Click
here to view results
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 Durgesh
wins Youth Olympic Silver
Singapore, 23 Aug: Durgesh Kumar Pal of India won silver medal in the 400m Hurdles with a person best timing of 50.81sec ( New Indian Youth Record) in the Youth Olympic Games at Singapore on August 23, 2010. Durgesh came very close to beat Cuban Lara Norge Sotomayor who won the gold in 50.69sec.
Duregesh Kumar Pal, 17 year old from Gazipur (Uttar Pradesh) started his athletic career in 2005 by joining Boys Sport Company in Pune under
guidance of athletic coach Ajimon K.S since then he has graduated from middle distance to 400m and finally settling on 400m hurdles because of his good stride length which is suited from hurdles.
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 Arjun
wins Youth Olympic Silver Medal
Singapore, 21 Aug 2010: This day will be
vividly remembered in the Indian athletics history because today
Arjun has brought us first ever medal in Athletics in the Youth
Olympic Games. Starting as favorite to win the gold, Arjun
finished on the second place with a throw of 62.92m, below his
personal best of 64.09m. Indian athlete has never won athletic
medal in the Olympic Games movement till today. Earlier in the
women's 5km walk final Khuhbir Kaur finished on the 13th place
with 25:30.27sec. Now all eyes are on Durgesh Kumar who will be
competing in the 400m Hurdles final.
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 London, 21 Aug 2010: Om Prakash Singh, asian shot put champion and India's medal hope in the Commonwealth Games finished on the third place in the 7th Thumer Werfertag Throwers meet,high profile throw competition held at Thum in Germany. Om Prakash, supported by Olympic Gold Quest foundation heaved the put to 19.64m in his fifth attempt to
finish on the third place.
Ralf Bartels, World championship medalist from Germany touched 21.00m mark to claim top spot while another German thrower David Strol threw 20.49m to finish on the second place. (
Click here to view complete results:
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Om Prakash Singh will compete in Lille Metropole Games at Lille, France on 24th August. Lille Metropole is one the biggest athletic event in France.
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Maharashtra athletes emerge victorious in the West Zone Junior
Athletics Championship 2010 held at Bhopal.
Results - Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |
Final Results | Final
Medal Tally
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BCDAAA has selected Bombay City team for the National Inter
District Junior Athletics Meet which will be held at Haridwar
from 27-30 Oct 2010. Click here
to view the list of selected athletes. Athletes are requested
to confirm their participation to Bhimaji More or Jay Maurya.
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50th National Interstate Senior Athletics Championship
2010
Aug 5-8- Patiala
Results : Day 1 | Day 2 |
Day 3 | Day 4
Final Results | Medal Tally
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Inter-State Athletics: Jaisha pockets steeple gold with a national record
Patiala, 8 Aug 2010 : It was a hot and humid evening on the final day of the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships here on Sunday. The weather was sultry when the proceedings begun at 4:00 p.m. and everyone wonder if any good performances have come out from the athletes who assembled here with aspirations to gain a berth in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games at New Delhi and Asian Games at Guangzhou.
However once they get on to the track and field, the athletes did not fail to return with some outstanding marks. Leading the brave-hearts was woman steeplechaser O.P. Jaisha. An Asian Indoor champion over 1,500m and bronze medalist in 5,000m at the Doha Asiad, Jaisha took steeplechase only two years ago when she clinched the national title at Madurai Inter-State championships. But no one predicted a national mark from her on Sunday except some senior Kerala state officials who put their hope on the tiny runner.
With national record holder Sudha Singh also on the fray, it was difficult to consider Jaisha as a winner. However, Jaisha ran shoulder to shoulder with Sudha till the last lap made her move on the bell and increased her tempo when she start approaching the final straight to become an eventual victor cap it with a new national mark 10:03.05. Sudha was a distant second in 10:14.68.
Jauna Murmu (Orissa), who recently switched over from 400m flat to hurdles, was in a fine form and improved the meet mark with a time of 57.46 secs. However it was a shade away from her personal best and Asian All-Star Meet winning mark of 57.39 secs.
Asian champion Om Prakash Singh tossed the iron ball to a distance of 19.99m to prove his mettle in the men’.
Double for Sunil and Geetha
Haryana’s Sunil Kumar Singh and Andhra Pradesh sprinter Satti Geetha completes a double. Geetha, a versatile 400m runner in the past and a regular member of
national relay quartet in various global competions, concentrate in 200m at recent times having won silver medals in the Federation Cup at Ranchi and Open Nationals at Kochi this May. After a surprise win over H.M. Jyothi of Karnataka in 100m on the opening day, Geetha comfortably got the top spot in 200m on Sunday evening clocking a modest 24.08
secs.
The Haryana lad Sunil Kumar Singh had similar victories in 5000m on the opening day before completing the double this morning with a victory over 10000m with a time of 29:55.22.
Kerala state retained the team championships with 8 gold, 7 silver and 3 bronze medals, closely followed by hosts Punjab (7-4-5) and Haryana (7-3-5).
Pankaj Dimri of Uttarakhand for his performance in men's 800m (1:46.86) and Mandeep Kaur of Punjab for her mark of 52.13 in women 400m have adjudged the
best athletes of the four-day national championships.
( Ram Murli Krishnan for BCDAAA)
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 Inter-State Athletics: Siddhanth eclipsed national mark in men’s 110m hurdles
Patiala, 7 Aug 2010 : After seven years of rigorous training Siddhanth Thingalaya achieved what others in his age could not have dreamt off—the senior national title—as he put to shade the previous national record in men’s 110m hurdles with an amazing 13.81 secs clocking on the third day of National Inter-State Athletics Championships at NSNIS grounds, Moti
Bagh.
Siddhanth (19) already was in limelight after having won the inter-university title at Kochi, two years ago. A second year B.Com student in Mithibai College, Mumbai, he went on to win a silver medal in the Asian junior championships at Hanoi (Vietnam) last month, before making an exposure trip to Moncton, Canada, for the World juniors.
He had a training stint at South Africa under the Mittal Champions Trust and clocked 14.31 secs at the high altitude Potchefstroom in March this year. “For the past four months I have been receiving training from Mr. Ajit Kulkarni in Balewadi and travel all the way to Pune in weekends from my home at Andheri which helped me to great extent” Siddhanth revealed after the event as he improved his personal best in both heats (14.20) and finals (13.81)
. The coach praised his prodigy for dedication and suggests that he need specialized training from abroad to become a medalist in a global competition like the Olympic Games. About his chances to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games, Siddhanth admits that he need to put more hard work and improve further in his timings.
His margin of victory in today’s race was remarkably impressive as Tamil Nadu’s P. Muthusamy and Punjab’s Amandeep Singh took the next two spots with an identical 14.46 secs.
After losing a podium finish in yesterday’s triple jump, Gayathri Govindaraj made a brave effort to win the women’s 100m hurdles with a time of 13.71 secs. M.M. Anchu, representing Jharkhand, and national record holder Anuradha Biswal from Orissa have taken the next two places with timings of 14.13 and 14.33 secs respectively.
Hosts Punjab received two more gold medals through Maha Singh in long jump (7.74m) and men’s 4x100m relay team (41.56 secs). Tamil Nadu jumpers B. Azarudeen (7.64) and B. Baskar (7.59) had won the silver and bronze medals whereas the favourite Ankit Sharma from Madhya Pradesh, who won the recent Asian All-Stars Meet at New Delhi, finished fifth with a performance of 7.51m. Ankit got a bronze in the Asian junior meet this year with a personal best 7.77m leap.
Sandeep of Haryana clinched the gold in men’s 1500m (3:43.39) from Kerala’s Chatholi Hamza (3:45.10). The other prominent winners of the day are Kavya Muthanna of Karnataka in women’s high jump (1.80m), Gajanan Upadhyay of Jharkhand in men’s pole vault (4.90m) and S. Saraswathy of Tamil Nadu in women’s javelin throw (50.29m).
In the last event of the day i.e. 10,000m Women, Preeja Sreedharan erased the old meet record in the name of Kavita Raut created in 2007 with a strong finish to create a new meet record by clocking 32:36.53s while previous record holder Kavita Raut touched the tape with a timing of 33:18.48s and has to satisfy with the silver. Maharashtra's
Lalita Babr took bronze in 34:54.37sec ( Ram Murli Krishnan for BCDAAA)
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 Patiala,
6 Aug 2010: Kerala's Mayookha Johny erased 8 year old national
record of legendary Anju George in the women triple jump with a
jump of 13.68m on the second day of the 50th National Senior
Interstate Athletics Championship progressing at NS NIS
ground.
In the men's 800m, Pankaj Dimri, 20 year old Uttrakhand athlete
won his first senior title with a timing of 1:46.26sec, second all
time best Indian performance in 800m. Only Sriram Singh had ran
faster than Pankaj and that too in 1976.
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Senior National Athletics Day 1: Field day for Punjab: Harwant defends title while Hardeep excel in come-back
Patiala, 5 Aug 2010: Hammer thrower Hardeep Kaur brought the first gold to hosts Punjab on the opening day of National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship here. The 33-year-old Hardeep, working in Punjab Police, exhibits excellent athleticism when she set out the ball and chain to an amazing 61.21m and bettered her own meet mark of 60.79m. However, it was just short of her national mark of 61.67m which she achieved while winning the open nationals eight years ago.
Punjab women are dominating the above event ever since its inception in the Inter-State programme in 1995, with eight titles in 15 years. The inaugural edition was won by Jagdeep Kaur at Chennai with a low profile 35.74m throw. Surinderjit (1997 and 1999) and Rajwinder (2002) followed the tradition with better performances before Hardeep took the limelight in 2003 nationals at Jamsehdpur. She followed her success story with wins in 2004 and 2006 (both at Chennai) before clinching her fourth title today.
Hardeep touched the 61m twice on her fourth (61.03) and fifth (61.21) attempts, but could not improve the eight year old national mark. “I will give my best during the Commonwealth Games although the line-up will be tougher in New Delhi” she explained after the event.
 Harwant retains discus throw title
The top three Indian athletes in women’s discus throw—Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil—once again lined up on the grounds of Asia’s prestigious sports institution at Moti Bagh. Krishna Poonia opened with a 60.03m throw on her first try. However Harwant gained control over the event from the second round and become a clear victor with a 60.66m throw achieved in the third attempt. Krishna could manage only 60.44m for the silver while the national record holder and former World junior bronze medalist Seema Antil settled with a bronze medal (56.06m).
Nagaraj won dead-heat, Geetha upstaged Jyothi in sprintsKarnataka’s
B.G. Nagaraj locked-in with Krishna Rane of Maharashtra as the duo crossed the finish-line together in men’s
 100m. Nagaraj declared winner after
reading the photo-finish. Both the athletes clocked an identical 10.55 secs. Kerala’s Sameermon become a victim as a loosely fixed starting block came out and stumbled down the athlete and his hope to win a medal in the final.
In what considered be a biggest upset of the day, Satti Geetha of Andhra Pradesh pushed favourite H.M. Jyothi (Karnataka) to the second spot in the women’s race 11.80 secs to 11.84.
In the absence of star Renjith Maheswary, the men’s triple jump event was won by Amarjeet Singh.
( Ram Murli Krishnan for BCDAAA)
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Maharashtra State Athletics Championship 2010
Boys and Girls under 16 years state meet
2-4 Aug 2010- Balewadi Pune
Schedule
Results of West Zone and
Interstate selection trials
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