Navneet Singh

Training ‘dry’, shooters keep bond with the gun

Shooting without bullets helping marksmen improve muscle memory

Gymnast Aruna Reddy improvises to keep Olympics hopes alive

Staying indoors meant her training routine was severely hampered. For a few days Reddy did not know how to go about her rehab and follow specific drills.

NADA to prioritise testing of Tokyo Olympics probables

This revised testing programme will be based on intelligent testing protocols and will focus on detecting doping during what has now been a long ‘off-season’.

Asian athletics body to stage prize money meets to lure top continental talent

Big names such as Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim now prefer the competitive and lucrative meets in Europe, says Asian athletics official

No training at SAI, NIS hurts athletes

At the National Institute of Sport, Patiala, more than 60 athletes—including javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and members of the national 4x400m relay team—have been cooped since the start of the first of three lockdowns was announced by the Prime Minister on March 24

Sports on hold, low-calorie diet for India track stars

India’s elite track and field athletes, who would have hit their final phase of training but the Tokyo Olympics being cancelled, have to now stay put in their rooms, although the sprawling NIS campus has five-six large fields besides two synthetic tracks.

Promising gymnast Sandeep Pal battles major spinal injury after training fall

Armyman father is anxious his teenage son can walk again as the gymnast, injured on February 5, undergoes treatment at a spinal injury clinic in Delhi.

Paralympic body to pitch for ministry grants again

The national lockdown to combat Covid-19 has stalled both. It meant PCI barely managed to pay Rs 1.08 lakh to World Para Athletics last month as affiliation fee.

I’m not rushing back home, feel safe in India’: Athletics coach Hillier

In March, when the lockdown was enforced, the 42-year-old, who signed a three-year contract in November to groom potential sprinters in Odisha, was worried about his parents’ well-being back home. “Luckily, they are staying in the countryside where the situation is under control. The problem is mainly in big cities,” he added.

Indian shooters go from top of the world to unsure times

If Tokyo 2020 had not been postponed by the pandemic, Indian shooters would have headed for the Olympics confident of pulling off their best ever show.

Indian athletics season put off by at least six months

World Athletics is discussing on having a window for qualification competitions in place of those cancelled or postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Elite shooters may run out of ammo in 2 mths

Trials and break before shooters target Tokyo

NRAI secretary Rajiv Bhatia said after the trials, there will be no camp as all training venues have been shut by the government till March 31. “If shooters want to train, they can do it in their home range.”

Coronavirus impact: No ranking points in New Delhi Shooting World Cup, says ISSF

The ISSF said there will no ranking points in the tournament scheduled to be held from March 15 to 26 as the organisers are not in a position to guarantee participation of all athletes owing to the extraordinary situation.

Coronavirus impact: India pulls out of shooting World Cup in Cyprus

A member of the squad, training here at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges, confirmed the development. “As of now we are not going as the hotel booking and air tickets have been cancelled,” the member said.

Asian Wrestling Championships: Ravi Kumar Dahiya wins gold, Bajrang Punia loses in final

Ravi outclassed Tajik grappler Vohidov Hikmatullo 10-0 to win India’s only Gold medal in the 57Kg freestyle category.

Asian Wrestling Championships: Global body throws lifeline to Pakistan wrestlers

Under its global development programme “Sports For All”, the world governing body for wrestling gave financial assistance of ₹12,000 per day to three Pak team members.

Asian Wrestling Championships: Sarita Mor clinches gold medal in 59kg category

With the 59kg freestyle gold on Thursday, the Haryana wrestler not only strengthened her claim for a place in the squad for next month’s Asian Olympic qualifiers but also enhanced India’s gold medal tally to three in the women’s category at the Asian Wrestling Championships.

Asian Wrestling Championships: Sarita, Pinki add more golds to India’s kitty

Pinki (55kg) and Divya Kakran (68kg) were the other two who won gold, while Nirmala Devi settled for silver in 50kg.

Asian Wrestling C’ships: Ashu reaps early bird virtue in Greco-Roman

Ashu defeated Syrian Abdulkarim Mohammad Al-Hasan 8-1 while Kundu dispatched Japan’s Nao Kusaka 8-0 in the first period. The other bronze was won by Hardeep, who edged past Beksultan Shamsiddinov 3-1.

Sunil Kumar wins 87kg title, ends 27-year wait for gold

Kumar has been India’s most promising Greco-Roman wrestler in recent times. He won gold medals twice in the Asian under-23 championships, in 2018 and 2019. This year, he won silver in the world ranking series event in Rome. The Indian contingent has high hopes from the Sonepat wrestler.

Looking to solve Japanese puzzles

India’s Bajrang and Vinesh will be up against top Japanese contenders Otoguro and Mukaida in Asian Wrestling Championships

In Sonepat, women wrestlers breaking barriers on the mat

OPENING UP Sonepat’s men-only wrestling tradition is now a thing of the past. The Haryana district, famous for producing international wrestlers, is seeing more and more girls hit the akhada.

Bhawana sets national 20km walk record, qualifies for Tokyo

Bhawana wiped away years of disappointment on Saturday, breaking the national record with victory in the national race walking championships in Ranchi, becoming the first Indian woman to achieve Olympic qualification in the 20km event.

Manish Singh Rawat eyes Tokyo qualification

The Uttarakhand athlete had finished a creditable 13th at the 2016 Rio Olympics, clocking 1:21.21 sec in the 20km event.

Injuries may leave no Indian gymnast competing in Tokyo

Karmakar, Reddy will not take part in world cup series, which acts as Olympic qualifier, as they are recovering

Para athlete bound for Tokyo under scanner

World Para Athletics has mentioned “classification protest” by the Iranian paralympic body against Yogesh Kathuniya and javelin thrower Tek Chand (F-54) .

Visa issues cloud Asian wrestling meet in Capital

United World Wrestling (UWW), the world governing body in wrestling, has warned the Indian federation that all participating nations need to be given visas, or else India may be penalised by being barred from the Asian Olympic qualifier scheduled in March in China.

Neeraj Chopra spears his way to Tokyo Games

The 22-year-old Indian, the first from the country to win a Commonwealth Games gold in javelin, missed the entire 2019 season due to an elbow injury on his throwing arm.

Dutee’s Tokyo bid to start at Asian Indoors in China

Things are looking up with the Odisha government selecting her for a ~50 lakh grant with the state’s Jauna Murmu (400m hurdles) and Purnima Hembram (heptathlon) also expected to get funds to prepare for the July 24-August 9 Games.