The top competition is set to feature 10 of the world's best javelin throw athletes featuring India's two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra with a tentative September window in mind. The outgoing AFI chief mentioned that Chopra is part of the organising team alongside JSW and a foreign firm.
World Champion Neeraj Chopra believes that India will be bidding for the World Athletics Championships 2027.
India's athlete Kenneth Powell on Sunday took his last breath and died in Bengaluru. Powell is a Arjuna Awardee and won the Bronze medal in 4x100m relay in 1970 Asian Games.
The event was slated in Bhopal from January 27-29 and was to serve as selection trials for the Asian Athletics Championships, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
16-year-old Rupal was the cynosure of all eyes, with her girls U-18 triumph coming in a personal best time of 53.73 seconds. She bettered her previous best of 55.37 seconds.
The contract of the 59-year-old German, a former world record holder, was valid until the end of the Tokyo Olympics.
AFI looks to recruit as many as 10 elite coaches ahead of a jam-packed 2022 season that includes Asian Games, CWG and World Championships.
The Georges' protege Shaili Singh clinched World U-20 Athletics Championships silver medal on Sunday with a jump of 6.59m in Nairobi.
Indian runners -- Priya Mohan, Barath Sridhar, Summy and Kapil -- clocked season-best of 3:20.60 seconds to finish third behind Nigeria (gold at 3:19.70 seconds) and Poland (3:19.80 secs).
Neeraj Chopra's former coach's contract with SAI ran out at the end of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Following Chopra's success at the Tokyo Olympics, the official handle's video celebrating the thrower's iconic win was the most-watched Olympics video on Twitter in India.
The 23-year-old Chopra became only the second Indian to win an individual Olympic gold in Tokyo on Saturday when he clinched the yellow metal in javelin throw with a best effort of 87.58m.
AFI's selection committee, in an emergency meeting, arrived at a "unanimous decision" to not pull the two athletes out of the 26-member squad.
After winning the 2019 Asian Championships gold, her urine sample returned positive for an anabolic steroid and she was provisionally suspended.
An Indian athletics team, including star sprinters Hima Das and Dutee Chand, was on Wednesday forced out of next month's Olympic qualifying World Athletics Relays in Poland.
The Olympic-bound javelin thrower injured his left ankle and has been advised not to throw for a week with Federation Cup slated from March 15.
In an exclusive conversation with Indiatvnews.com, AFI president Adille Sumariwalla explains how champions like Neeraj are honed and handled with care while revealing that the athlete will be training and competing in Europe in May.
The dead body of the 72-year-old Snesarev, who returned to India after a gap of two years to be at the helm till the end of September, has been sent to a government hospital for post mortem.
Hima's performance of 23.31 seconds in 200m fell short of the Olympic qualification timing of 22.80 secs; Dutee clocks 11.44 seconds to take 100m gold.
Herrmann said on his Facebook page that he had resigned from the post "three weeks ago" after he was convinced that he could no longer "meet the self-imposed expectations" of his role.
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