The athletics events at the Asian Games 2026 will wind up on Tuesday, with nine gold medals up for grabs on the final day. India has won 19 medals so far in track and field, but is yet to win a gold. The first six days of athletics have yielded the country nine silver and…
Berlin Marathon winner Tigst Assefa has undergone surgery in Munich on Monday after finishing Sunday’s race with a torn Achilles, her manager confirmed. Assefa was on track to break the women’s marathon record until the 35-kilometre mark, when she slowed slightly and was clearly struggling with a leg injury. The 29-year-old Ethiopian limped across the…
Claiming that the officials at the ongoing Asian Games took a “shorter” measurement of long jumper Shaili Singh’s effort which denied her a medal, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has decided to move the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against their decision. Shaili finished fourth with a best jump of 6.42m in the…
As she crossed the finish line, Vithya Ramraj’s eyes went up to the giant digital screen at Mizuho Stadium. The quarter-mile is a horrid mixture of sprinting and endurance, with the hurdles throwing in 10 jumps over a two and a half foot tall wooden barrier for good measure. Runners usually collapse on the ground…
Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage won javelin gold at the Asian Games on Monday to add to his growing collection and then set his sights on world and Olympic domination. The 23-year-old rising star has taken the javelin world by storm this year, winning at the Commonwealth Games, Diamond League and Ultimate Championship. He returned…
A national record was broken and some personal marks were bested as the Paloma Mizuho Athletics Stadium added more medals to India’s kitty on Monday, of both hues except for the golden one India desperately craved. Three years ago, Vithya Ramraj ran the 400m hurdles in 55.42 seconds, equalling the longest standing Indian track record…
Parul Chaudhary added another medal to her Asian Games collection after finishing third in the women’s 5000m final at Aichi-Nagoya 2026 on Monday. The Hangzhou 2023 champion clocked 15:14.61 to take bronze, 4.43 seconds behind Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi, who won gold in 15:10.18. Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka claimed silver with 15:11.65. ALSO read | Gulveer Singh…
India’s Murali Sreeshankar clinched silver in the men’s long jump at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 on Monday. He managed a best distance of 8.07m on just his second attempt before seemingly injuring his left ankle off courtesy an awkward landing in wet conditions at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium. The other Indian…
Gulveer Singh won the silver medal in the men’s 1500m at the Asian Games 2026 at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium on Monday. The 28-year-old registered a Personal Best time of 3:36.72 to finish second behind Japan’s Kazuto Izawa. His previous best of 3:37.87 came at the Music City Track Carnival in Cleveland,…
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has started a Secondary Testing Pool (STP), which was set up in the last quarter of 2025. It is an additional pool to avoid enlarging the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) beyond a certain limit and contains athletes who are in the second tier of the sport and may not require…
