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Gulveer Singh wins Gold as India bags two medals at Asian Athletics 2025

Gulveer Singh secured India's first gold of the championships in the men's 10,000m race, clocking 28:38.63.

Neeraj Chopra crosses 90-metre mark; throws 90.23 m in Doha Diamond league

India double olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra finally crossed the 90-metre mark in a javelin throw event at the Doha Diamond League 2025 in Qatar.

What is the men's javelin throw world record? Full list of highest throws

The world record for the javelin throw is held by Jan Železný of the Czech Republic with a phenomenal distance of 98.48 metres, set in 1996.

Doha Diamond League 2025 HIGHLIGHTS: Weber's 91.06m throw outshines Neeraj's personal best of 90.23m

Also competing in Doha are India's Gulveer Singh (5000m) and Parul Chaudhary (3000m steeplechase), marking India's largest-ever representation at a Diamond League event

Doha Diamond League 2025: Why will there be no Neeraj vs Arshad today?

Ahead of the Diamond League, Neeraj Chopra clarified that he and Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem were never close friends despite sharing mutual respect as competitors

Doha Diamond League: Neeraj Chopra's javelin throw live time, streaming

The live streaming of the 2025 Doha Diamond League will be available on Wanda Diamond League's Facebook and YouTube pages. Neeraj Chopra's event starts at 10:13 PM IST today

What is Diamond League in athletics? Check rules, format, events' full list

At each series meeting, the throws and horizontal jumps use the "Final 3" format, where the top three athletes after five rounds battle it out in a sixth and final round to determine the winner

India's Kishore Jena joins line-up for Neeraj Chopra Classic in Bengaluru

The high-profile athletics meet will be headlined by Olympic gold medallist and reigning world javelin champion Neeraj Chopra, who continues to lead India's charge on the global stage.

Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025: Javelin throw event dates, venue, athletes

The 1st edition of the Neeraj Chopra Classic, labelled as the NC Classic, will take place at Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Panchkula in Haryana, on May 24. Find all about NC Classic javelin throw event here

'Courts responsible for destruction of sports', Ex-AFI chief Sumariwalla

Former Athletics Federation of India (AFI) President Adille Sumariwalla on Thursday alleged that the courts are responsible for the destruction of sports in India. Speaking at the International Olympics Research Conference organised at the Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gandhinagar, Sumariwalla claimed if a Sports Bill which has arbitration clause in it is not brought in a month, most of sports federations will cease to exist. "?You need (sports) governance, yes. But the governance should be moving in the direction of development of sports, not just policing. If it is just policing, then you have a problem," Sumariwalla claimed, while participating in a panel discussion with Commonwealth Games Federation chief Chris Jenkins and CEO Katie Sadlier. "A case in point is the new constitution of the Indian Olympic Association. It is a disaster, it is an absolute disaster, because it kills everything sports stands for. So who interfered in it -- the courts," he alleged. "?Today, in

Neeraj Chopra to lead India in ten-player continental javelin tour in May

The event will take place in India and feature the top ten javelin throwers from both the men's and women's divisions across the world

What is the 10-men invitational javelin event AFI wants to host in 2025?

Outgoing AFI president Adille Sumariwalla announced that they are planning to invite the top 10 javelin throwers to take part in this event

World Athletics Head Coe awaits India's bid for 2029 championships

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says his organisation will "await with interest" India's expected bid for the 2029 World Championships but indicated that there will be tough competition from other countries to get the hosting right of the showpiece. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is set to formally express its interest to host the 2029 World Championships when the process is launched in the next few months, in line with the country's plan to stage a series of high-profile events to mount a serious bid for the 2036 Olympics. "The 2029 World Championships, look, we will await with interest (India's expected bid). I have to tell you, we've got a lot of interest in those Championships already, and the process will open shortly," Coe replied to a PTI question during a virtual conference with the global media. It was in December last year when the AFI first revealed its intention to bid for the 2029 World Championships. The bidding process is expected to start in ...

Adidas, Nike supplier Hong Fu enters India to foot manufacturing push

Hong Fu, the world's second-largest manufacturer of non-leather athletic footwear, produces approximately 200 million pairs of sports shoes annually

India's Neeraj Chopra set to part ways with coach Klaus Bartonietz

The hugely successful partnership between star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and his long-time coach Klaus Bartonietz of Germany is set to end after five years of working together. The 75-year-old Bartonietz has cited his age and family commitments to part ways with Chopra. "He (Bartonietz) is 75 and he now wants to be with his family and does not want too much travel also," an official of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) told PTI. "It is not that Neeraj wants to end the association, it is Bartonietz who has expressed his inability to continue as his (Neeraj's) coach," he added. The 26-year-old Chopra has been working with Bartonietz, who is a biomechanics expert but doubled up as Chopra's coach, since 2019. The German first came on board as a biomechanical expert and took over as Chopra's coach after Uwe Hohn fell out with the AFI and the Sports Authority of India. Under Bartonietz, Chopra won Tokyo Olympics gold, Paris Games silver, became world champion and Diamo

Injury is fine now, next target is 2025 world championship: Neeraj Chopra

Promising to be 100 per cent fit for the new season, India's two-time Olympic medal-winning javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra on Friday said a podium finish in the 2025 Tokyo World Championships is the next big target on his mind going forward. The 26-year-old is back in the country after winding up his season with a second-place finish at the Diamond League finale in Brussels. This was after he became the first Indian track-and-field athlete to claim successive Olympic medals by adding a silver in Paris to the momentous gold clinched in Tokyo. "The season is over now. The biggest target for next year is the World Championship, and we will begin preparations for that now. The Olympics are always on our minds, but we have four years for that," Neeraj told PTI Videos on the sidelines of a conference on 'Mission Olympics 2036' organised at the Sports University of Haryana here. The world championship is scheduled to be held from September 13 to 21 next year. Chopra battled an adductor

Diamond League athletics series to increase prize money from next season

The Diamond League track and field series is set to increase its prize money next season, World Athletics said Wednesday. The announcement comes as the World Athletics president Sebastian Coe bids to become president of the International Olympic Committee. The total prize money to be paid in 2025 will reach $9.2 million, the highest amount since the series launched in 2010. Next year's schedule includes 14 one-day meets and the two-day final in Zurich in August. At each meet, the total prize money per discipline will be between $30,000 and $50,000; and at the final between $60,000 and $100,000. The prize money is gender-equal.

Diamond League Final 2024 HIGHLIGHTS: Neeraj Chopra finishes in 2nd place with 87.86m throw

Neeraj Chopra missed out on the top spot this year by just 1 cm as Anderson Peters from Grenada took the Diamond trophy with an 87.87m throw on the night in Belgium.

Diamond League Final: Neeraj Chopra javelin throw live time, streaming

Neeraj Chopra will be up against a tough line-up featuring Paris 2024 bronze medallist Anderson Peters (Grenada) and Germany's Julian Weber among others

Armand Duplantis sets pole vault meet record in Diamond League 2024 Final

Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis capped a beautiful season with a meet record in the Diamond League Final that was far from his world record. Duplantis has broken the world record three times this year; the second time was when he won his second Olympic gold medal in Paris, and the most recent in a league meet in Poland on Aug. 25, clearing 6.26 meters. But after he made 5.92 that nobody else could match in Brussels, he nailed 6.11 at his first attempt and stopped. That was one centimeter more than his own Memorial Van Damme record set last year, and he said he was too tired to continue. Afterwards, he said his 100-meter victory over 400 hurdles world record-holder Karsten Warholm in Zurich last week took more out of him than expected. My legs felt terrible tonight and I'm just really tired, Duplantis said. "It's been a crazy couple of weeks: The race against Karsten and then I had to jump the day after. That took a lot more from my body that I expected. With 6.11 I got a good result