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PARIS: The women's 100m hurdles saw national record holder Jyothi Yarraji finish seventh in Heat 4 clocking 13.16 seconds in the Olympics at the Stade de France here. A repeat of her season's best time of 12.78s would have won her the third place and a berth in the semifinals.…

NEW DELHI: Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has announced her retirement following her disheartening disqualification from the Olympics, stating she no longer has the strength to continue. The 29-year-old, disqualified for being 100 grams overweight before her 50kg category gold medal bout on Wednesday, shared her decision on social media.

India's 28-member team for World Athletics Championships led by Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, with athletes competing in javelin, triple jump, 20km race walk, long jump, 3000m steeplechase, 400m hurdles, 800m, 1500m, high jump, 35km race walk and 4x400m relay. Surprisingly Sports Ministry announced the team instead of Athletics Federation of…

India won a bronze in women’s 20km race walk team at World University Games. Poorva Sawant (12th) & Shalini Choudhary & Kumari Mukesh (13th & 14th) in women’s triple jump & discus throw respectively. Women’s 4x100m relay team qualified for final. Men’s long jump & 4x100m relay team had DNF…

BANGKOK: India’s famed 4x400m relay teams failed to live up to their billing as they lost the battle to Sri Lanka in the men’s section and Vietnam and Sri Lanka in the women's section at the 25th Asian Athletics Championships that concluded at the National Stadium here on Sunday.

Abha Khatua equalled shot put national record, Jyothi Yarraji and Parul Chaudhary won silver medals. India ended campaign with 27 medals, 6 gold, 12 silver & 9 bronze.

NEW DELHI: Shot putter Abha Khatua matched the national record, producing a surprise second-place finish while Jyothi Yarraji and Parul Chaudhary bagged their second medals (both silver) as India ended the Asian Athletics Championships campaign in Bangkok with a total of 27 medals.

BANGKOK: Priyanka Goswami and Vikash Singh won silver and bronze medals in the women's and men's 20km race-walk events respectively on the final day of the Asian Athletics Championships here on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: The sports ministry has approved Commonwealth Games silver medallist long jumper Murali Sreeshankar's proposal to train in Greece for over a month in preparation for the World Athletics Championship and Asian Games later this year.