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Ten athletes to represent India in Youth World Championships
New Delhi, 2 July: Prabhjot Singh and G Mounica will spearhead the Indian challenge in the boys and girls sections respectively in the 6th IAAF World Youth Athletics Championships to be held in Bressanone, Italy from July 8-12.
Prabhjot had won the discus event with a national record throw of 59.62m in the National Youth Championships in Madurai last month.
Andhra Pradesh girl Monika had won the 200m race with a national record timing of 24.88secs in Madurai.
The 10-member Indian team also has shot putter Gurwant Singh who was declared the best athlete among boys in Madurai for winning the event with a throw of 18.20m.
In the last world championships in Ostrava in Czech Republic in 2007, India were represented by 12 athletes and returned without a medal.
The best performance there was that of Indian girls' relay team who finished fifth. Ajay Pal Singh reached the final in boys shot put but had to settle for a ninth-place finish.
The Indian Team: Boys: Amiya Mallick (200m); Ankit Sharma (Long Jump); Arpinder Singh (Triple Jump); Gurwant Singh (Shot Put); Prabhjot Singh (Discus); Kirpal Singh (Discus).
Girls: Ranjita Mahanta (100m); G Mounica (200M); Aswathi Mohanan (400m); C Arya (400m).
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 Singapore,
July 1: Indian Athletes won three medals on the first day of Inaugural Asian Youth Games
being held at Singapore.
Indian Athlete Arjun won the first Gold Medal of the 1st Asian Youth Games in Discus throw. He threw the Discus to a distance of 58.72m.
"I am happy for a good performance today and could won the Gold Medal in
1st Asian Youth Games for India. Its a good reward for my hard practice sessions." said
Arjun. Rahul Kumar won Silver Medal in the boys 1500m with a
4:05.01s while Maharashtra's Pooja Varhade won her maiden
international medal in the form of Bronze in the girls 1500m race with a time of 4:39.04s.
Click here to view day one
results>>
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 Athlete Naunidh dies in road accident
New Delhi (IANS): Athlete Naunidh Singh, a former national record holder in the 110 metres hurdles, died in a road accident in Amritsar, on Sunday.
According to reports received here on Tuesday, Naunidh, 25, was returning home with his father after buying medicines for his ailing son when he met with an accident. His father survived the mishap.
The athlete was employed with the Border Security Force (BSF) and had set the national record of 14.05 seconds at the National Championships in Hyderabad in 2007.
Last year, he finished third at the National Open Championships in Kochi.
As a junior athlete, Naunidh also had set a national record of 14.12 secs in Bangalore in 2003. He had also represented India in the World Junior Championship in Kingston, Jamaica in 2002.
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Mumbai,
June 24, 2009: Maharashtra's Pooja Varade is among the 12 Youth
athletes representing India in the Asian Youth Games to begin in
Singapore from June 27.
Following are the athletes selected: Boys: 1.RAVI KUMAR (800M), 2.ROHIT KUMAR (JAVELIN), 3.ARJUN (DISCUS), 4.RAHUL KUMAR (1500M), 5.SELWYN JEBARAJ MERVIN (400MH), 6.N.S.K. LOGARASANM (LONG JUMP), Girls: 1.NAMITA KABAT ( 800M), 2.POOJA RAMESH VARADE (1500M), 3.MURUGAPPA RAJA GUNASUNDARI (DISCUS), 4.PULIKKALPOTTA KALAM GANGADHARAN ADHEENA (100M H), 5.RANJEETA MAHANTA ( 100M), 6. MEKALA SUSHMA (400MH)
For
the first time Asian Youth Games will have live web cast. Click
here to view the games site>>
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Om
Prakash Singh barely missed World Championship qualifying in
Istanbul
Istanbul, June 14, 2009: Om Prakash Singh, Asian All Star Champion
finished remarkable third place in the Men’s Shot Put at the 64th
edition of Czemi Or Memorial, a European Athletics Classic
Meeting, held
in Istanbul on June 13.
Czemi Or Memorial, the annual meet organised in the memory of former Turkish
national record holder in both 100 and 200 meters Cezmi Or, who
passed away at the age of 24 in 1945.
Om
Prakash Singh, 22 years old young, dynamic and packed with an
enormous power not only improved his personal best to the new
level but also achieved the all time 2nd Indian Shot
Put thrower (Overseas) performance in the 4th round
with a distance of 19.89m but he fell short of just one centimetre
for the World Championship Qualifying mark. However this
performance earned him $1000 cash award. His throw series was as
follows (18.44, X, 19.24, 19.89, 19.43 and 19.62)
. Hamza
Alić of Bosnia-Herzegovina won the first place with a throw
of 20.30m while Nedžad Mulabegović of
Croatia
finished on the second place with 20.01m.
In
the Women’s Discus Throw event, Krishna Poonia finished on the 5th
place with a performance of 53.19m. Sign of fatigue was clearly
visible in the
Krishna
’s throws (X, 52.28, 53.19, 52.05, 52.35, 51.73) who has already
qualified for the World Championship.
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Indian Grand Prix V
Ranchi, 10th June 2009
Final Results
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Indian Grand Prix IV
Jamshedpur, 7th June 2009
Schedule
| Start list
| Results
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 Mumbai, 1
June: BCDAAA has selected 58 member Bombay City Athletic team for
the Maharashtra Senior and Junior Athletics Championship to be
held at Pune late this month. Click
here to view the list of selected athletes>>
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 Ethiopians
Deriba and Aselefech corner glory
Bangalore,
June 1: It was a grand double for Ethiopian athletes Deriba Merga
and Aselefech Mergia, who ran away with the honours in the
Sunfeast World 10K Bangalore, the World’s Premier 10K Run, which
was flagged off from the Kanteerava Stadium on Sunday.
Deriba
Merga ran a powerful start to finish race to demolish a strong
field while coming home in 28.13, while Aselefech Mergia, running
on Kenyan Mary Keitany’s shoulder, throughout the race, produced
a powerful final kick in the last 400 meters after entering the
stadium to overtake Keitany in the final 10 metres and finish in
32.08, a second ahead of Keitany. Both Deriba and Aselefech
finished outside the men’s course record of 27.52 in the name of
Erithrean Zersenay Tadesse and the women’s record of 32.03.
The
Indian men and women also came up with improved performances,
probably spurred on by the high level of competition to better
last year’s timings.
Following
are the results:
Overall
Elite Men: Deriba Merga (ETH) 28.13 sec; Mark Kiptoo (KEN) 28.15;
Bernard Kipyego (KEN) 28.24; Wilson Kipsang (KEN) 28.30; Dino
Sefir (ETH) 28.39; Fabiano Joseph (TAN) 28.49; Dejere Tadessa
(ETH) 28.55; Dechese Chala (ETH) 29.00; John Wambua (KEN) 29.08;
Ezekiel Cherop (KEN) 29.24.
Overall
Elite Women:
Asslefech Mergia (ETH) 32.08 Secs; Mary Keitany (KEN) 32.09; Aberu
Kebede (ETH) 32.11; Hilda Kibet (NED) 32.22; Meseret Mengistu
(ETH) 32.26; Peninah Arusel (KEN) 32.27; Workitu Ayanu (ETH)
32.36; Sally Barsosio (KEN) 33.07; Atsede Baysa (ETH) 33.14; Zakia
Mrishko (TAN) 33.47.
Indian
Men: Sandeep Kumar
30.02 (Overall 16th ); Kashinath Aswale 30.08 (Overall
17th ), Santosh Kumar 30.13 (Overall 20th ),
Ram Singh Yadav 30.14 (Overall 21st ); Irappa D Akki
30.43 (Overall 24th ).
Indian
Women: Kavita Raut
34.32 (Overall 14th ), Preeja Sreedharan 34.40 (Overall
15th ), Preethi L Rao 35.21 (Overall 17th ),
Sudha Singh 36.55 (Overall 24th ), Jhumma Katun 37.02
(Overall 25th ).
Nation
Challenge Winners:
Karnataka
(Santosh Kumar, Ajay, Preethi L Rao) 1.35.58 sec; Maharashtra (Irappa
D Akki, Tilak Bc, Kavita Raut) 1.36.10; Gujarat (Sandeep Kumar,
Kshinath Aswale, Jaisha OP) 1.37.45; Kerala (Shahnvaj Pm, Hamza,
Preeja Sreedharan) 1.37.46; Uttar Pradesh (Arvind Kumar Yadav,
Mukesh Kumar Yadav, Sudha Singh) 1.40.08
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 Hong
Kong, May 30: Indian athletes won 2 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze
medals in the 3rd and final leg of Asian AA Grand prix
held at
Hong Kong
.
Surendra Singh remained unbeaten in all the 3 legs with another
convincing win in the men’s 3000m with a performance of
8:07.22s. Bibin
Mathew ran superb race in the men’s 400m to register the major
upset of the series by beating Chinese Liu Xiaosheng (46.76s).
Liu clocked identical but was announced second place after
photofinish results. Bibin clocked 46.766 while Liu’s timing was
46.769. Shake Mortaza of
India
took third place with 47.42s. For
complete results click here :
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National Youth Athletics Championship 2009
Madurai, 29-31 May
Schedule | Athletes
| National Records | Meet
Records
Start List - Day 1 | Day
2 | Day 3
Results - Day 1 | Day 2 |
Day 3
Final Results | Medal Tally
| New Records
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May 27, 2009 : Indian athletes win two gold in Asian GP
Shot putter Om Prakash and long distance runner Surendra Singh won a gold medal each as Indian athletes bagged two gold, three silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Grand Prix second leg in Kunshan
(China), on Wednesday.
Om Prakash hurled the iron ball to 19.48 metres to improve upon his personal best (19.36m) outside India which he set four days ago in the first leg at Suzhou (China).
He, however, failed to cross the Berlin World Championships 'B' standard of 19.90m.
Surendra, who bagged a gold in 3000m at Suzhou, fetched his second gold of the Asian Grand Prix series by winning the men's 5000m race in the second leg.
He clocked 13:40.45 to win the race though his effort failed to touch the Berlin 'B' standard of 13:29.00.
India won all the medals in the race, with Kashinath Aswale (13:44.32) and Sandip Kumar (13:47.45) winning silver and bronze respectively.
In a closely-contested 400m run for men, India bagged both silver and bronze.
Bibin Mathew was second, clocking 46.48 seconds; he was followed by his teammate VB Bineesh (47.12s).
Krishna Poonia, who have already qualified for Berlin, and national record holder Seema Antil won a silver and bronze respectively in the women's discus throw by clearing 57.89m and 56.85m respectively.
Asian Games gold medallist Song Aimin of China won the gold with a throw of 63.45m.
In men's high jump, Hari Shankar Roy finished third with a leapt of 2.15m.
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Maharashtra Athletics
Association has selected Maharashtra Team for National Youth Athletics
Championship to be held at Madurai from May 29. Click
here to view team members>>
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Bombay
City District Athletics Championship 2009
May 29-30, Priyadarshini Park Ground- Mumbai
Schedule | Qualifying Standards 2009
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Indian athletes
shine in China
Indian athletes won
1 gold 4 silver and 4 bronze medals in the Asian Grand Prix 2009 series
1st leg held at Suzhou (China).
It is for the first
time that China hosting Asian Grand Prix series. As expected, Indians
faced stiff competition from Chinese athletes but none could match the
pace of Indian runners in the men’s 3000m where all three places went
to India. Surendra Singh won the gold with 7:59.52s while team-mates
Ravinder and Sandip Kumat Batham followed him on second and third
position respectively.
Krishna Poonia was
completely outclassed by Asian Games Champion Song Aimin ( 63.91m) in
the Women’s Discus throw. Krishna managed 57.26m to settle on silver
while Indian record holder Seema Antil grabbed third spot with 55.94m.
Om Prakash Singh set
his new personal best outside of India with a throw of 19.36m in the
men’s shot put but it was not enough to beat Chang Minghuang of
Chinese Taipei who heaved the put to 19.45m. Asian Junior medallist
Saurabh Vij took bronze medal with 18.56m.
Men : 3000m:
1. SINGH SURENDRA IND 7:59.52s, 2. RAVINDER IND 7:59.81s, 3. KUMAR
SANDIP IND 8:00.15s Shot Put: 1.Chang Minghuang TPE 19.45m, 2.Om Prakash
SINGH IND 19.36m, 3. VIJ SAURABH IND 18.56m 400m: 1. Liu Xiaosheng CHN
46.88s, 2. MATHEW BIBIN IND 47.18s, 3. SHAKE MORTAJA IND 47.56s Women : Discus
Throw : 1. Song Aimin CHN 63.91m, 2. POONIA KRISHNA IND 57.26m, 3 ANTIL
SEEMA IND 55.94m
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New Delhi, 16 May: Athletics Federation of India will field 46 member
Indian athletic team for the Asian Grand Prix 2009 series to be held at
Suzhou, Kunshan and Hong Kong starting from May 23. Click
here to view final selected team >>
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Indian Grand Prix- III on May 14, 2009 at Chennai
Schedule| Results
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Chennai, 14 May: Joseph Abraham, World Championship semi finalist in
400m Hurdles won the Indian Grand Prix III with a timing of 49.59s thus
ensuring his participation in 2009 World Championship by meeting
"B" qualification standard. Avin Thomas and Patlavath Shankar
finished second and third with a timing of 51.18s and 51.83s
respectively. Joseph is confident of further improvements in the
timing in coming month leading to the Berlin.
Sharda Narayan, National Champion 2007 of Indian Railways took full
advantage of the newly laid synthetic track of Nehru Stadium in Chennai
to zoom to the new personal best and the fastest time in the country in
the last 4 years in the 100m with a timing of 11.64s. She beat favorite
H. M. Jyoti to the second place while K. Sowjanya of Andhra Pradesh took
third place in 11.94s.
In the past few years standard in the women spirtining in India was on
downside but today's performance has indicated revival of the women
sprinting in India.
As expected M A Prajusha won the women's triple jump with another 13.50
plus effort. She jumped to 13.51m to claim first place. Commonwealth
Youth Games silver medalist G. Gayathri of Indian bank finished on the
second place with a new personal best of 13.04m . Gayathri went on
to improve in the women''s 100m hurdles race by beating elite Susmita
Singha Roy who recently competed in the IAAF Multistar in Italy.
Gayathri set new personal best with a timing of 13.80s.
Tintu Luka has certainly confirmed her arrival on the senior stage with
a win in 400m clocking 55.13s.
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Mumbai, 10 May: BCDAAA is organising a Bombay City Senior Athletic
Championship on 29 and 30 May, 2009 at Priyadarshini Park Ground,
Mumbai. Bombay City athletic team will be selected for the Maharashtra
State Senior Athletics Championship to be held at Pune, Balewadi on
11-13, June 2009. BCDAAA will also select team for Junior State Meet
under 14 & under 16 to be held at Pune, Balewadi on 15-17,
June 2009.
The selection for the Bombay City Team for Junior State Meet under 18
& under 20 which is to be held at Mumbai, Kandivali SAI Sports
Ground in the last week of June 2009.
Click here for list of events and Entry
Form>>
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 May 10, Desenzano
del Garda , Italy: India's leading heptathlete Sushmita Singha Roy is trailing on 18th place
with a total points of 3260 after the completion of day one events of
Heptathlon in the 22nd Multistars competition progressing in Desenzano
in Italy. Its a part of IAAF World Combined Event Challenge. Jessica
Ennis of GBR is leading with total points of 4003. Click
here to view the results>>
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Indian Grand Prix- II on May 8, 2009 at Coimbatore
Schedule | Results
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Indian Grand Prix- I on May 3, 2009 at Kochi ( Kerala)
Schedule | Athletes
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Mumbai, April 13,2009: The Bombay City District Athletic Association (BCDAAA) has decided to give an extra fillip to Athletics by involving its outstanding athletes of yester years. The Executive committee at its last meeting has decided to set up 3 training modules under the leadership of International Marathon Runner Savio D’Souza, National Sprinter Govind Dangi and Olympian Rachita Mistry.
Savio, Govind and Rachita will be assisted by other International and National Athletes such as Brinston Miranda, Rakesh Raut, Praful Utchil, Homiyar Mistry, Leelamma Alphonso, etc.
In recent times we have had a huge response from runners as well as corporates wanting to participate in the full and half marathons in Mumbai. Today most individuals are finding it difficult to get the correct advice for distance running. Therefore, as the controlling body for athletics in Mumbai the BCDAAA
has decided to set up a training program under the guidance of International Marathon runner Savio D’Souza, at various centers all over Mumbai.
The then President of BCDAAA, late Mr Tara Malkani was instrumental in setting up Mumbai’s first Synthetic track at Priyadarshini Park in South Mumbai. From its inception the BCDAAA has set up a training program there - that is conducted throughout the year. Former national Medalist Govind Dangi has been put in charge of that Program.
The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation, Monaco), experts have created the team competition of Kids’ Athletics. The IAAF Kids’ Athletics programme is being implemented in schools worldwide. The BCDAAA has taken the initiative to popularize Kids’ Athletics in schools of Mumbai. The aim is to make Athletics accessible to all, to offer children a motivating and instructive sports activity. Kids’ Athletics offers a successful initiation to athletics thanks to a progressive evolution of the forms of training/competitions tailored to the young athletes between 7 and 15 years old. The training for Kids’ Athletics will be conducted by Olympian Rachita Mistry along with a team of qualified athletic coaches Nagesh Shetty and Deepak Londhe. The Kids’ Athletics programme will contribute to the harmonious development of children and will provide pleasure in practicing athletics in the model of a game. The educational approach adopted is based on a competition adapted to all. It retains one of the essential values of sport that is, surpassing oneself. The values of effort, mutual respect within a team, of responsibility and autonomy will be conveyed throughout the training period of children through the necessary adjustments of athletics to the given age category.
New events and innovative organization will enable children to discover basic activities: sprinting, endurance, running, jumping, throwing / putting in just about any available sport area.
The athletics games will provide children with the opportunity to make the most of the beneficial practice of Athletics, in terms of Health, education, and Self fulfillment.
For further details or enquires please send us an email, or contact the Associations’ office, or call Savio/Homiyar Mistry on 9322290509, or Govind Dangi for PDP training on 9869155845 or Rachita Mistry 93222 84530 for the 3 Days Kids Athletics Programme to be implemented in your school.
Click
here to view the details>>
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New Delhi, 6 April 2009: Athletics
Federation of India will commence its Competition season for 2009 from
Southern Belt with three editions of
Indian grand Prix Series. These will be prize money Competitions
however Athlete have to participate in all the three editions to be
eligible for cash awards. For relay events there will no prize money.
Indian Grand Prix -I
/ Maharaja Stadium,
Cochin
/ 3 May 09
Events
: Men– 100m,
400m, 800m, 3000m, 110m H, Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, High Jump,
Long Jump Women
- 100m, 400m, 800m, 3000m,
100m H, Disscus, Triple Jump, High Jump
Indian Grand Prix- II/
Coimbatore
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8 May
09
Events : Men -
200m, 400m, 1500m,
5000m, 400m H, Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, High Jump,
Triple Jump, 4x100m Women
- 200m, 400m, 1500m,
5000m, Discus, Long Jump, 4x100m
Indian Grand Prix- III/ Chennai
/
14 May 09
Events: Men - 100m, 400m,
1000m, 110m H, 400m H, Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, Long
Jump, 4x100m Women
- 100m, 400m, 1000m, 100m H, Discus, Triple Jump, High Jump,
4x100m
Athletes interested to participate must send their entries through
State/Boards by 25th April 2009 to AFI. All National Campers
preparing for CWG 2010 will participate in this Grand Prix Series as per
their events.
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 New
Delhi, Mar 21, 2009: Babubhai Panocha of India set new Indian record in
20km walking with a timing of 1::24:31hrs in the Asian Race Walking
Championship held at Nomi City at Japan on March 15, 2009. Babubhai erased
21year old record of Sucha Singh in 20km walk of 1::25:44hrs.
However Babubhai
finished on the 7th place while teammate Harminder Singh finished on the
8th place with a timing of 1::29:20hrs.
He also narrowly missed
World Championship "B" qualification
( 1::24:20hr).
Now Babubhai own both road and track National record in 20km walking. It
is a significant improvement in the performance of Babubhai after injury
laden 2008.
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Bahrain, 1 Mar: Indian Men, Women and Junior
Women teams won third place in the 10th Asian Cross Country
Championship held at Bahrain on March 1, 2009.
Asian Cross Country Championship 2009
Results : Individual |
Team -Men
| Women
| Jr. Men
| Jr.
Women
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Kolkata, 22 Feb: Army's Bining Lyngkhoi emerged winner in the Rs 11 lakh
5th Airtel Kolkata Marathon, covering 42.195 kms in 2 hours 21 minutes 7 seconds, toppling last year's winner of Railways Bairab Singh Lone, who stood second at 2 hours 26 minutes 49 seconds here today.
In women's 10.5 kms run, Kavita Raut of Maharastra won the race, finishing in 32 minutes 55 seconds and pocketed Rs 1.1
lakh. Preeja Sreedharan of Kerala and West Bengal's Pampa Chanda took second and third spots respectively. Pampa had won the championship last year.
For men's category, third spot went to Niraj Pal Singh, also from Army posted in Hyderabad.
The winner for men's marathon, Lyngkhoi, was given a cash prize of Rs 3.2
lakh. About 191 men and 81 women took part in the run and another 12,000 people participated in ''fun marathon'' held in the city's Red
Road.
The results: Men (42.2 km): 1. Binign Lyngkhoi (Army
Sports Institute, Pune) 2:21.07s; 2. Bhairav Singh (M.P.)
2:26.49; 3. Neeraj Pal Singh (Army Sports Institute, Hyderabad)
2:27.13.
Women (10.5km): 1. Kavit Raut (ONGC) 32.55s; 2. Preeja
Sreedharan (Kerala) 32.58; 3. Pampa Chanda (Bengal) 34.28
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Seville, Feb 22, 2009: Talented Indian shot putter Om Prakash signed off Europe tour with a high note by claiming 3rd place in the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championship at Seville on Saturday 21 Feb. Om Prakash heave men's Shot Put to the distance of 18.62m in the very first throw. It's been third time on the tour when Om Prakash has managed to pull best throw in the every first round. Vivas Jimenez Borja of Spain won the event with 19.34m. He beat Spanish record holder Martinez Gutierrez Manuel
( 19.28m) to second place.
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 IAAF
Handbook 2009 Competition Rules is now available for free
download in PDF format via the web BCDAAA " IAAF Handbook
2009 - Rules of Competition "
All rules of competition governed by
the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
completely updated and revised for the 2008/2009 season.
This publication is available only in digital version. Click
here to download the copy of rulebook>>
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Mumbai, 18 Feb 2009: Finally Mumbai got its second synthetic
running track after a long wait of 15 years. This track is
located at Sports Authority of India's training center at
Kandivali (East) on the Western Express Highway. Sports Minister
of India M.S. Gill formally inaugurated the track yesterday in
the presence of sports dignitaries. In the past, SAI Training
center, Kandivali has produced number of National and
International athletes despite lack of proper training
facilities. This track will provide new life to the dying
athletics in the suburban area of Mumbai.
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 Mumbai,
18 Feb 2009: St. Xavier School and St. Agnes School team won the
team championship for boys and girls respectively in Catholic Gymkhana
Annual Athletic meet 2009. More than 500 athletes took part in
the two days championship. Krishna Dussera of St. Xavier High
School won Rs. 5000 award for the Best Boy Athletes while Mansha
Thakur of St. Agnes won the Best Girl athlete award. Krishna set
new records in 100m, 200m and Long jump. Individual Championship (Open) : B/U8 : Gerard Quadros (United Athlete SC) ,B/U10: Bhagyesh
Anvekar (Striders SC), B/U12: Devesh Poojari (St. Xavier High School, Fort), B/U14: Varun Sane (V P M
Dahisar), B/U16: Krishna Dusera (St. Xavier High School, Fort), G/U8: Natasha General (Bombay Parsi
Panchayat), G/U10: Sonia Rodrigues (St. Agnes High School,
Byculla), G/U12: Piroza Master (Bombay Parsi Panchayat), G/U14: Vandana Nayak (V P M
Dahisar), G/U16: Mansha Thakur (St. Agnes High Sch)
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Click here to view the
performance of the Bombay City Team
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Chennai, 15 Feb 2009: Shivdan Singh of Army comfortably won the
Chennai Marathon title with a timing of 2:24:14hrs.
Results: Full marathon for men: 1. Shivdan Singh (Army Sports Institute, Pune)
2:24.14.5sec, 2. Bipul Saharia (Artillery Centre, Hyderabad) 2:34.08, 3. Nagendra
Rao (Army, Chennai) 2:34.48.7.
Half-marathon (21.1km): Men: 1. Ravikanth (Karnataka), 2. Irappa
(MRC, Ooty), 3.
B.C. Thilak (MRC, Ooty);
Women: Sudha Singh (U.P.) 1:22m, 2. L. Suriya (Pudukottai) 1:22.4s, 3. Kamlesh Baghel (Maharashtra) 1:25.2s.
For more details visit www.chennaimarathon.org
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 Valencia,
14 Feb 2009: India's Om Prakash Singh finished creditable 5th in
the IAAF Indoor Athletics meeting at the Valencia (Spain).
6ft 7" tall former basketball player improved his indoor
personal best in the Shot put to 19.01m.
Om Prakash once again struck with 4 foul throws but this time
his opening throw was over 19m mark which put him on 5th place
in the highly competitive field containing Olympic medalist.
World Indoor Champion Christian Cantwell ( 20.95m) once
again beat Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski ( 20.30m) of
Poland.
Om Prakash will move to Seville to compete in the Spanish Indoor
Championship to be held on 21-22 Feb. Om Prakash is hopeful to
raise the performance to new level in Seville. He will train for
a week in Seville which will help him to prepare for the
championship. Coach M. S. Dhillon is upbeat after today's
performance.
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57th All India Police Athletic Meet, Lucknow
Feb 10-14
Results: Day 1 | Day
2 | Day 3 | Day
4 | Day 5 | Decathlon
Final Results
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World Railway Athletics Championship 2009
Feb 8-13, Pune
Results
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Lucknow, 12 Feb 09: Arvind Rathwa set new record in the women's
100m hurdles with a timing of 14.28s on the 3rd day of the All
India Police Athletics Meet. Click
here to view day 3 results. Also click here to view men's
decathlon results
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Lucknow, 11 Feb 09: Punjab's Hardeep Kaur set the new meet
record in the women's hammer throw with a distance of 57.05m on
the second day of the 57th All India Police Athletics
Championship. Rakesh Kumar of UP Police won the Men's hammer throw event with a
throw of 62.87m. Click here to view
day 2 results>>
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CM inaugurates All India Police Athletics meet
Lucknow, Feb 10 : Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati today inaugurated the 57th All India Police
Athletics meet at the synthetic track of the 35th Battallion PAC
ground here.
As many as 900 players of 29 teams of central security forces
and different states participated in the meet. There were all in
all 100 women athletes.
Geeta Rai and Sunil Kumar of UP won gold medals for 5000 metre
race and shotput respectively. The CM, who was the chief guest
on the occasion, was also given a momentum by the UP DGP Vikram
Singh state chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta, cabinet secretary
Shashank Shekhar Singh were also present on the occasion.It is
the fifth time that the UP police was organising the
meet-earlier being in 1952, 68, 79 and 1993, he informed.
In the last edition held at Guwahati Kuldeep Singh of Punjab
Police (PP) was declared as the best athlete in the men's
section while in the women's section Saraswati Chandara of
Orrisa had grabbed the honour.
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Pune 10 Feb: Indian Railways athletes dominated the proceedings
on the second day of the 17th Men's and 14th Women's World
Railway Athletics Championship progressing at the Balewadi
Stadium. India's Bibin Mathew won the 400m in 47.37s while
Sajeesh Joseph took gold in 1500m with 3:51.94s. Click
here to view the day two results
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Pune, 9 Feb:
India's M. A. Prajusha won the Gold medal in the Long Jump event
of 14th World Railway Athletics Championship which commenced at
the Balewadi Stadium. Prajusha leaped to 6.25m to beat Russian
Anna Nikitenko and Marina Tuktamisheva. Nidhi Singh
won the bronze medal in the women's 100m sprint with a timing of
11.74s while Vishal Saxena and A. Arvind took silver and bronze
in the men's 100m with 10.68s and 10.70s respectively. Click
here to view day one
results
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 Udipi,
9 Feb: Preeja Sreedahran break the winning streak of Kavita Raut
in the Syndicate Udipi Half Marathon held at Udipi (Karnataka, INDIA)
on Sunday, 8th Sept 2009. Preeja won the race will Kavita had to
settle for the second place . Winners were give Hero Honda motor
bike and cash awards.
Men Half Marathon : 1. Elam Singh from the Army Sports Institute Pune, 2. Arvind
Yadav, South East Railways, 3. Mukesh Kumar Yadav of South East Railways.
Women Half Marathon: 1. Preeja Sridharan from Southern Railways, 2. Kavita Rawat from ONGC and 3. Preethi from Western Railways, Mumbai.
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Indian
Marathon team create history in Hong Kong
Mumbai, Feb 9: Indian marathon team created the history by
finishing overall third in the 5th edition of The Greatest
Race on Earth challenge which concluded with the Hong Kong
marathon on Sunday 8th Feb. It
took long five years for Indian Marathon Team to move from 5th
place to 3rd place in the overall tally reflecting India's
popularity of Marathon running
Yesterday,
India's 25year old Army man Angad Kumar Prasad finished men's
full marathon on 7th place in the final leg of Standard
Chartered Greatest Race on Earth challenge 2008/09 (12th
overall) at Hong Kong Marathon with a timing of 2:25:21 sec. Angad's
effort kept India on top in the South Asia and Middle east
challenge for the fifth year in row in the GROE series. Indian
men team win $ 80,000 cash purse for securing Champion Team
title.
In the
women's section Leelamma Alphanso finished on 10th place (22nd
overall) in women marathon with a timing of 3 hours 19.23sec.
Indian women team finished 5th in the regional challenge.
GROE is
the ultimate test of teamwork and endurance. Teams of four
runners each compete in one of four marathons, with the
winning team being the one with the quickest cumulative time.
Indian
Marathon Team and their performances in GROE 2008/09: Satya
Prakash ( Nairobi / 2:31:19)
Ram Singh Yadav ( Singapore / 2:22:55)
Deepchand ( Mumbai / 2:26:01)
Angad Kumar Prasad ( Hong Kong / 2:25:21)
Final
results of Nation's Challenge GROE 2008/09 : 1.
Kenya ( 8:59:49) , 2. Uganda ( 9:25:15), 3. India ( 9:45:36),
4. Zambia ( 9:59:30), 5. Russia ( 10:02.28)
Final
results of South and South East Asia region: 1.
India (9:45:36), 2. Srilanka (10:21:32), 3. Thailand
(10:25:51), 4. Indonesia (10:54:57), 5. Vietnam (10:58:16)
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Pune, 9 Feb: 17 th Men and 14 th Women USIC World Railway Athletics Championship
2009 will begin today in in Shiv Chhatrapati Sports City, Balewadi at 4 30 pm.
The Railway Sports Promotion Board will conduct the meet which
has attracted participation from Russia, France, Swis, Poland, Finland & Norway
and rest of the World. Championship will conclude on 12th Feb
2009.
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 Mumbai City athletes shine at the Stat Sub Juniors
Mumbai, 9 Feb: Mumbai City's Bhagesh Anvekar won the 50m
dash for Boys under 10 years in 7.6s while Sonia Rodriguez won
the girls under 10 years 50m dash with at iming of 7.9s. in the
Maharashtra Sub Junior Athletics Championship held at Pune from
8-9 Feb.
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Nagpur, Jan 30 (PTI) Adugnga Tola
Gomeda of Ethiopia became the fastest among men while Kenya's
Agnes Karunge Mutane won the women's title in maiden Nagpur
International Marathon here today. Adugnga clocked 2.18.29
hours to cover 42.195 km in the full marathon category while
Agnes took 1.13.33 hrs to run 21.097 km to win the half
marathon. Another Ethiopian Wellay Amare became the runners-up
with a timing of 2.18.30 hrs, while Desdary Lucian Hombo of
Kenya clocked 2.18.39 hrs to finish third in men's
section.Among women, India's Kavita Raut finished third, just
behind Jain Muia of Kenya. The race, which saw 18 events with
various distances and was participated by 29 foreign athletes,
was organised on the occasion of World Non-Violence
Day.Beijing Olympics' gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra
flagged off the race and handed out the awards to the winners.
A total prize money of Rs 37 lakhs was distributed to the
winners in various categories. PTI. More details on http://nagpurinternationalmarathon.org/index.htm
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Central Railway is recruiting talented sports person. Last date
of application form is 28th Feb 2009. Click here to view the
advertisement or visit www.centralrailwayonline.com |
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National Cross Country Championship at Bhilai on 21st Jan 2009
Results: Individual
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Mumbai, 20 Jan: BCDAAA has
selected Bombay city sub junior athletic team for the
Maharashtra State Sub Junior Athletics Championship. Click
here to view the list of selected athletes>> |
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Technical
Officials for Mumbai Marathon 2009 |
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 Mumbai 19 Jan 2009: Kenneth Mungara
of Kenya set a new Indian all comers record in the Marathon in addition
to the course record to win the men's title of the 6th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon
2009 with a timing of 2hr 11min 59 sec, as Kenya swept the first three places of the first international sporting event here after the November 26 terror attacks in the city.
David Tarus (2 hours 12 minutes and 2 seconds) and two time winner John Kelai (2 hours 12 minutes and 23
seconds) from Kenya finished on the second and third spot.
Running against the clock, Mungara went past the finish-line in 2:11:51 setting a new course record and in that process also bettering the Indian all-comers record held in the name of Shivnath Singh since 1978. Singh timed 2:11:59.4 during the Open Nationals at
Jalandhar.
 Ram Singh Yadav made it three-in-a-row among Indian men by clocking 2:18:03 which gave the Army Sports Institute (Pune) runner the overall 11th position. He won Rs one lakh for his effort.
Deep Chand, a half-marathoner-turned-full marathoner, came second among Indian men in 2:26:01 (overall 21st) while another ASI runner Narender Singh was third in 2:26:41 (overall 23rd).
As in the past, Indian athletes dominated the half-marathon scene. Surender Singh – the national record-holder in the 10,000m – took the men’s title with a modest 1:06:09 while Kavita Raut clinched the women’s honour in a slow time of 1:20:58.
Click here to view the results>>
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41st BCDAAA Annual athletics Championship 2008-09
2-3 Jan 2009
Priyadarshini Park Ground-Mumbai Schedule
| Athletes- Eventwise | Teamwise
Results- Day 1 | Day 2
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Mumbai , Dec 8,2008: Bombay City District Athletic Association
will conduct its 41st BCDAAA Annual Athletic Championship 2008-09 on 2nd & 3rd January
2009, at Priyadarshini Park, Napeansea Road, Mumbai. Last date of entries is 29th December 2008.
This championship is open for all schools, colleges, clubs and
organization that fall under the limits of Mumbai city. Colaba to Sion. The
103 events are for all categories starting from under 8 for boys and girls to
men and women.
This championship will serve as a selection for selecting the Mumbai City
Athletic team for Sub-Junior State Athletic Championship to be held in February 2009. Under 8 to 14 years.
For the first time BCDAAA has tied up with Concern India Foundation to
provide underprivileged children with a wonderful prospect, All the best
of the runners from different NGO’s spread all over mumbai will be given
Direct Entry in the Finals of these championship. Since we are aware that
quite a few of these children have athletic potential, we hope that this will
open up new doors for them and give them significant opportunities for
the future. Most importantly it gives these children an opportunity to become a part of mainstream sports activity.
For further inquiries and for the Entry Form contact the Association
office, or H. F Mistry / Govind Dangi at PDP in the Evening, or Bhimaji More Mobile No.98702 10566. |
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3rd South Asian Athletics Championships 2008
7-8 March, Kochi ( INDIA)
Schedule
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1 | Day 2 |
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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. |
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