In her first match in a year, six-time world champion MC Mary Kom beat Giordana Sorrentino of Italy to reach the women's 51kg semi-finals and ensure a medal at the Boxam Elite International tournament here.Mary Kom has already qualified for this year's...

Jamaica's two-time Olympic gold medallist sprinter Yohan Blake said that he would rather not participate in the Tokyo Olympics than take a vaccine for Covid-19. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has "encouraged" all athletes travelling for the Games to...

Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat outplayed European bronze medallist Vanese Kaladzinskay of Belarus 10-8 to win the women's 53kg freestyle title in the Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial tournament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday.The 26-year-old...

Sanamacha Chanu (75kg) and Vinka (60kg) won gold at the 30th Adriatic Pearl boxing tournament in Budva, Montonegro on Sunday. Their wins have taken India's tally at the tournament to three gold medals.While Sanamacha beat compatriot Raj Sahiba, Vinka beat Kiper...

Haryana's international athletes Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Kumar in the men's event and Uttar Pradesh's Priyanka Goswami in the women's category won the 2021 Olympic Games quota places in the 20km event of the eighth National Race Walking Championships held in Ranchi...

Indian para-athletes continued their good show at the 12th Fazza International World Para Athletics Grand Prix winning five medals, including two golds, on the second day of the competitions.Para-athlete Simran got closer to her Paralympic dream as she clinched...

Seher Atwal overcame a double bogey on the back nine to maintain her dominance at the third leg of the Women's Pro Golf Tournament at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club on Thursday.Seher, who shot a superb 5-under 65 on the first day, added one-under 69 to stay...

Lemlem Hailu's world under-20 indoor 1,500m record of 4:01.57 seconds, set last year, has been ratified, World Athletics announced on Saturday.The Ethiopian middle-distance runner clocked her record-breaking time at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in...

Multiple national champion Hemanth Muddappa of Mantra Racing was in his elements once again winning both the gold in the top-two categories as he emerged as the national champion for the successive fourth year, in the second and final round of the MMSC fmsci...

Expressing solidarity with the protesting farmers seeking the repealing of the three farm laws enacted by the Centre, boxer Vijender Singh on Sunday said he will return all his medals if the farmers' demands were not met.Vijender won a bronze medal at the 2008...

Iranian weightlifter Navab Nasirshelal will receive his 2012 Olympic Games gold medal following the disqualification of Ukrainian Oleksiy Torokhtiy, the International Olympic Committee has said.Re-analysis of Torokhtiy's samples from London 2012 resulted in...

India's star athlete and ONE Championship fighter Ritu Phogat has stated just like Khabib Nurmagemenov brought Mixed Martial Arts to Russia, she also wants to help MMA get exposure in India."Just like how Khabib Nurmagemenov brought MMA to Russia, I want to...

India's star athlete and ONE Championship fighter Ritu Phogat is set to win the belt at ONE: INSIDE THE MATRIX against Nou Srey Pov when she takes on the Cambodian MMA sensation on October 30 in Singapore.The 25-year-old, who put forth a gutsy showing against...

Ace Indian boxer MC Mary Kom has revealed she was shocked when she first heard about the postponement of Tokyo Olympics due to Covid-19 pandemic.Originally scheduled to be held from July 24 to August 9 this year, the Tokyo Olympics was in March postponed...

It's all thanks to badminton that today Amritpal Kaur is India's best known young face in karate. And it was Delhi's streets that pushed her to attend her first martial-arts class.Even as her story has been optioned for a film by Sujay Jairaj, who also secured...

Despite losing the French Open final to Rafael Nadal on Sunday, Novak Djokovic stayed ahead of his Spanish rival in the latest men's tennis rankings released on Monday.Djokovic (11,740 points) was 1,890 points ahead of Nadal (9,850) in the ATP rankings. Dominic...

Lewis Hamilton on Sunday equalled German Formula 1 great Michael Schumacher's record of 91 race wins with his victory at the Eiffel Grand Prix. Hamilton finished nearly 4.5 seconds ahead of second placed Max Verstappen of Red Bull at the Nurburgring as his...

Reigning world champion Sifan Hassan shrugged off cold and rainy conditions to break the women's 10,000-metre European record at the FBK After Summer Competition in Hengelo, the Netherlands, on Saturday.The 27-year-old Dutchwoman clocked 29 minutes, 36.67 seconds...

Rafael Nadal continued his marauding run at the French Open with a record-extending 13th title win on Sunday. He beat arch-rival and world no.1 Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 and the victory took him level with Roger Federer's record of 20 Grand Slam wins, the...

World no.1 Novak Djokovic had to settle for runners up against the seemingly infallible Rafael Nadal at the 2020 French Open and the Serb was all praise for his Spanish rival after the match.Djokovic, who was looking to become the first man in the Open Era...

Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova have entered the semifinals on the ongoing French Open after registering contrasting wins in their respective quarterfinal matches.In the men's singles event, Djokovic, despite visibly struggling with his left arm early on...

National 100m record holder Dutee Chand, who was recently conferred the Arjuna Award, is eagerly waiting for the track and field competitions to resume so that she could test her fitness, something that she has been working on since the resumption of training...

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan both broke the one-hour world record at the Memorial Van Damme meet. The meet is part of the Diamond League series and was held at an empty King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday.Hassan first...

After a five-month long wait, Olympic-bound boxer Simranjit Kaur has finally received the promised cash reward of Rs. 5 lakh from the Punjab government for qualifying for the Olympic Games. But the 2018 World Championship bronze medallist is yet to get the...

Infrastructure for tennis should be made more accessible to the public in India, said former player and former Indian Davis Cup captain Mahesh Bhupathi.The 12-time Grand Slam winner said that tennis is a sport that needs facilities and being a member of a club is not...

Former India opener Gautam Gambhir feels MS Dhoni should bat up the order for Chennai Super Kings in this edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) which will be played in the UAE.Speaking exclusively on Star Sports show Cricket Connected, Gambhir said: "It...

Former world chess champion V. Anand on Monday said India winning the gold in the FIDE Online Olympiad will have a positive impact on the way the central government looks at the game and the players.He also categorically said the Indian team was ready even...

Abhinav Bindra, who is India's first individual Olympic Gold Medallist, said that even before he had shot his first competition shot in Beijing, he considered himself as a winner in his own eyes.To relive some of the defining moments in the history of Indian...

Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho came on as a second half substitute for Bayern Munich in Sunday night's Champions League final, but failed to rule out a return to parent club FC Barcelona for the coming season.Barcelona's record signing spent this season...

France World Cup winner Kylian Mbappe has said winning the Champions League would prove that his decision to join Paris Saint-Germain was right.French champions PSG will take on German giants Bayern Munich in Sunday's final here."That is exactly the reason...

The Bridge Federation of India (BFI) is not surprised by the omission of 2018 Asian Games gold medal winners Pranab Bardhan and Shibnath Sarkar from the Arjuna awards list this year, saying they knew that the recognition will take time to come.Sarkar and...

Star Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia feels that the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will bring positivity among all the sports disciplines worldwide.He said that if UAE manages to host the lucrative league without any hassle then other sports can also...

Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) Secretary General Gursharan Singh feels the country will produce its best-ever show in the next years Paralympic Games in Tokyo, targeting as many as 15 medals, including five gold."I would not be surprised if more than fifty...

MotoGP championship leader Fabio Quartararo is looking to do better at the Red Bull Ring this weekend after his eighth-place finish at the Austrian GP. Spielberg is the venue once again for the Styria GP."For me it's wide open but again to have a second race...

Ritu Phogat is among six mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters from the One Championship stable who will feature in the reality television series 'The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition.'The lineup includes One Heavyweight World Champion Brandon Vera, women's...

Para sports in India have been taken rapid strides in the last few years and Deepa Malik, India's first ever woman Paralympic medallist, is confident that the country will win medals in double digits at the Tokyo Paralympics next year.She said this on paddler...

Championship leader Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) is looking forward to the weekend when the Czech Republic Grand Prix takes place.Alongside Quartararo,  Maverick Viñales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP), Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team), TakaakiNakagami...

Midfielder Ishika Chaudhary, who is considered by many as the backbone of the Indian junior women's hockey team, has said that she's ready to take the next step forward, but  puts winning the Asia Cup with the junior team on the number one spot on her priority...

The Tokyo Olympics have been deferred until 2021 due to coronavirus, finishing a long time of hypothesis about whether they would proceed in July. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) settled on the choice after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested...

Coming up next is a rundown of universal games influenced by the coronavirus, which has murdered more than 300 individuals and contaminated more than 14,000 in China after it previously developed in Wuhan, Hubei area, before the end of last year:Athletics...

India has 1,320,000,000 individuals, and is the second most crowded nation on the planet following China. Be that as it may, India's score low in sports separated from cricket and federation games. Why? Checking by populace, India positions the toward the...

The historical backdrop of present day sport has been one of development from neighborhood to provincial, national and afterward worldwide settings. Expansionism has been a main thrust behind the spread of current game far and wide, reflecting and strengthening...

Worldwide games associations and their governanceBolt, the child of food merchants in Jamaica's country Trelawny ward, exceeded expectations as a cricket quick bowler in his adolescent years. He built up a profound fondness for the European football (soccer) groups...

Reigning champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) said it is great to be back on the track ahead of the Spanish GP which begins on Saturday.Marquez will once again be the favourite to clinch the MotoGP crown when the revamped 2020 season begins.Since 2013, the...

The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu today felicitated three Padma Awardees from Telangana - ace badminton player Ms PV Sindhu, innovative farmer Shri Chintala Venkat Reddy and well known Sanskrit and Telugu poet Shri Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam, at a function...

Music is one important aspect which decides the vibe of the place, be it a club, restaurant or a bar. Today’s generation loves partying and it is the music that tempts them the most. Every club tries its best to have the best disc jockey (DJ) who can connect...

The Arab Women Sports Tournament (AWST), organised by Sharjah Women’s Sports (SWS) concluded on Wednesday with the final basketball and volleyball competitions being held in packed stadiums.The curtain fell on the 10-day event which ran under the patronage...

The fourth day of competitions during the Arab Women Sports Tournament (AWST), organised by Sharjah Women’s Sports (SWS), was marked by fierce contests in shooting, volleyball and table tennis. UAE shooters completed the day winning a bronze medal in the...

UAE shooters bagged two silver medals yesterday (Wednesday) at the fifth edition of the Arab Women Sports Tournament (AWST) securing the second position in both 10m air pistol team and individual competitions. Organised by Sharjah Women’s Sports (SWS), the...

The third day (Wednesday) of the fifth edition of the Arab Women Sports Tournament (AWST), organised by Sharjah Women’s Sports (SWS), was marked by fierce competitions in table tennis and volleyball. Volleyball The volleyball match between...

Sportswomen competing in the Arab Women Sports Tournament (AWST 2020) continued to deliver high-level, edge-of-the-seat performances on Tuesday (Feb 4). Emirati athletes sustained supremacy across categories of basketball and volleyballand finished their day with...

The three-day long Wushu championship concluded at Chandiloora Tangmarg here. Deputy Commissioner Baramulla Dr G N Itoo presided as the chief guest at the valedictory function.The championship was organized by Wushu Association Baramulla in which about 180...

Veteran Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna on Tuesday slammed the All India Tennis Association''s (AITA) decision to change the non-playing captain of the Indian Davis Cup team without allegedly consulting the players.On Monday, hours before the International...

To reminisce about the life and achievements of Indian heavyweight champion Boxer Kaur Singh, Slay Records is coming up with his biopic. The shoot for the movie has recently been wrapped up and the post-production has already started, informed Gurlove Singh...

Retired Major General Vikram Dogra, the first army man to successfully complete an Ironman triathlon, beat his own record at the gruelling event in Germany on July 28.Dogra, 59, beat his earlier record by 41 minutes in his second appearance at the triathlon...

Abhinav Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist, on Sunday said boycotting the 2022 Commonwealth Games is not an option, and advised  the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to "load" the CWG committees with more of their people so that, in...

Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom on Sunday bagged the gold medal in the 23rd President's Cup, in a one-sided 51kg bout final in Labuan Bajo,  Indonesia.Pugilist Kom eased past Australian April Franks 5-0."Gold medal for me and for my country at #PresidentCup...

In the last 24 Olympic Games that India have participated so far since 1900, only 28 medals have been won by the country which now has a population of more than 1.3 billion. Of these, nine were gold, six silver and 11 bronze medals.In the 2016 Rio Olympics,...

Ace Indian sprinter Hima Das continued her sensational sprint as she clinched her fifth gold in July by claiming the top honours in a 400-metre race in Czech Republic.The ace Indian sprinter won the gold after she clocked...

The Commonwealth Games Federation's (CWF) decision to abandon shooting from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) has dealt a big blow to India, which has swiftly emerged as a giant in the sport. Amidst the controversy, ace shooter Heena Sidhu feels...