Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown claimed the women's 100m backstroke gold in an Olympic record time of 57.47 seconds at the Tokyo Olympic Games here on Tuesday.The result was 0.02 seconds behind her own world record, but enough for her to beat second-placed Kylie...

Overall leader Tadej Pogacar won Stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday to further extend his lead in the prestigious cycling race.This was Pogacar's third stage victory at Luz Ardiden and came a day after he won at col du Portet, giving more evidence that...

Austrias Patrick Konrad broke away from the pack with 132 kms to go to win Stage 16 of the Tour de France, beating Italian Sonny Colbrelli and Australia's Michael Matthews for his first stage win on the prestigious multi-stage cycling race.Slovenian Tadej Pogacar,...

Veteran Dutch cyclist Bauke Mollema shocked his competitors as his aggressive run over the last 42 kilometres helped him win Stage 14 of the Tour de France.Though this was only his second stage win at the Tour -- the last one came in 2017 -- it was pretty comprehensive...

The world champion and India’s top badminton player PV Sindhu along with wrestler Bajrang Punia, archers Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das, and swimmer Sajan Prakash will showcase their athletic skills and more on ShareChat and India’s number one short video...

Metaj Mohoric of Slovenia marked his maiden stage win at Tour de France by clinching the longest stage -- Stage 7 -- of this year's event.The 26-year-old completed the 249.1 km uphill stage in 5 hours, 28 minutes and 20 seconds, over a minute ahead of Belgian...

Metaj Mohoric of Slovenia marked his maiden stage win at Tour de France by clinching the longest stage -- Stage 7 -- of this year's event.The 26-year-old completed the 249.1 km uphill stage in 5 hours, 28 minutes and 20 seconds, over a minute ahead of Belgian...

British cyclist Mark Cavendish,who won the Stage 4 on Tuesday, clinched Stage 6 of Tour de France as he took his tally of stage victories to 32 which is two short of the all-time record of 34 by former Belgian cyclist Eddie Merckx.This is his third stage win...

Devendra Jhajharia, the 2016 Rio Paralympic champion in men's F-46 javelin throw category, improved his world record on way to winning berth for the Tokyo Paralympic Games during the two-day national selection trials that concluded here on Wednesday.The 40-year-old...

British cyclist Mark Cavendish won his first stage at Tour de France in five years when he clinched Stage Four on Tuesday.The 36-year-old, who clinched his 31st stage at the Tour, took 3 hours 20.17 mins to complete the 150.4 km stage from Redon to Fougeres...

Tim Merlier won the third stage of Tour de France cycling race, beating fellow Belgian Jasper Philipsen in the 182.9km long flat stretch between Lorient to Pontivy.The third stage witnessed many crashes as Welshman Geraint Thomas and Slovenian Primoz Roglic,...

India's Rahi Sarnobat won gold medal in women's 25 metres pistol event at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup here on Monday."This gives me the assurance that I am on the right track and I have to keep working on this up till the Olympics,"...

When I called up Milkha Singh, who was much more than an athletics legend, on the landline phone of his Chandigarh home in the first week of August 2001 to get his reaction on being picked belatedly for the Arjuna Award, he poured his heart out, without being...

Belgium scored twice in the first half and Romelu Lukaku added another in the closing minutes to defeat a hapless Russia in their opening Euro 2020 Group B game. A brace from Lukaku and a goal from substitute Thomas Meunier helped clinical "Red Devils" to jump...

Italy scored their biggest win in European football championship with a 3-0 win over Turkey in the tournament opener.The Euro 2020, which was postponed last year due to Covid-19 pandemic, is being played in 11 venues.The Italians, who have won the title only...

Former Asian Games gold medallist in boxing Ngangom Dingko Singh, who passed away on Thursday morning, will be remembered as a person who revolutionised boxing in particular, and sports in general, in Manipur -- and in India. Dingko, was suffering from liver...

India's Aruna Tanwar, world No.4 in the women's U 49 category, has been awarded a wild card entry for the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020. She thus becomes the first Indian taekwondo athlete to qualify for the Paralympics.This good news comes after India failed...

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey clocked 29 minutes 01.3 seconds to break the women's 10,000-metre world record by five seconds during the Ethiopian athletics trials here on Tuesday night."I expected to run a world record. I would like to try to break the 29-minute...

India's ace woman tennis player Ankita Raina defeated Australian Arina Rodionova 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in first round of French Open qualifiers and will face Greet Minnen of Belgium in second round on Wednesday.Ankita lost the first set but came back to defeat the Australian...

Charles Leclerc of Ferrari crashed in the final minute of qualifying on Saturday but secured pole position for his Monaco home Grand Prix.The Monegasque clocked 1 minute 10.346 seconds around the tight 3.337km street circuit of Monte Carlo before hitting the...

Federico Chiesa scored the decisive goal as Juventus sealed a record-extending 14th Coppa Italia title with a 2-1 win over Atalanta.It has been a disappointing first season in charge for coach Andrea Pirlo, with the Bianconeri knocked out of the Champions League...

Joshua Cheptegei, the world champion in 10,000 metres, failed to break long-standing men's 3000m world record in the Continental Tour Gold meeting here on Wednesday night.The 24-year-old talented runner clocked 7 minutes 33.24 seconds, a personal best and a...

Tejinderpal Singh Toor, the Asian Games champion in men's shot put, hopes to achieve Tokyo Olympic Games qualification mark of 21.10 metres at next month's domestic competition in Bengaluru after missing international events last month due to pandemic."The pandemic...

Despite the hard-fought three-set victory over arch-rival Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the Italian Open final on Sunday, Spaniard Rafael Nadal continues to be at third spot on the ATP rankings, released on Monday.Djokovic is way ahead of the pack with 11,063...

World No.15 from Iga Swiatek of Poland was in ruthless form as she routed No. 9 seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-0, 6-0 in just 46 minutes to clinch the Italian Open title here on Sunday.Iga, 19, dropped just 13 points in all -- four in the first...

Representing Kansas State University, India's Tejaswini Shankar won back-to-back men's high jump titles in the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Manhattan, USA.Shankar, 22, cleared the bar at 2.28m to win high jump gold on Saturday, but his efforts...

Frenchman Fabio Quartararo of Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP grabbed his third consecutive pole position at Le Mans after the qualifying sessions at the SHARK Grand Prix de France on Saturday.Quartararo set a time of 1:32.600 sec on his final flying lap to beat...

Leading gymnast Pranati Nayak, who will be the lone Indian to compete at the upcoming Olympic Games, has the "competition mind-set to stand out in big events", feels top gymnast Dipa Karmakar."Everyone works hard. But Pranati's competition mindset stands out....

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes secured victory at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday after an intense pitstop strategy battle with Red Bull's Max Verstappen.This was Hamilton's third win this season and 98th of his career.Sitting on pole position for the 100th time...

Matteo Berrettini will take on Alexander Zverev in the Madrid Open final on Sunday after overcoming Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 in the last four.Eighth seed Berrettini, 25, has enjoyed a superb debut tournament in the Spanish capital, dropping just one set on his...

Aryna Sabalenka turned the tables on world No.1 Ashleigh Barty to win the Madrid Open title.Two weeks ago, Barty came from a set down to defeat Sabalenka in the final of the WTA event in Stuttgart, and it looked as if history would repeat itself when the Australian...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen to secure his 100th career Formula One pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday.Hamilton has long held the record after beating Michael Schumacher's 68 career pole positions, while he still...

Germany's Alexander Zverev took sweet revenge for last years US Open final loss to Dominic Thiem, defeating the Austrian 6-3, 6-4 to reach his second Madrid Open final on Saturday.The World No. 6 earned 11 break points and broke serve on three occasions to snap...

Germany's Alexander Zverev and compatriot Tim Puetz beat India's Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov of Canada 6-4, 3-6, 10-5 to enter the doubles semi-finals at the Madrid Open here. While the Bopanna-Shapovalov pair hit five aces compared to three from Puetz...

This is the story of a man who lost his two hands in two different accidents, however, never gave in to the challenges but continued working hard to emerge as a winner in swimming on the national platform and setting his eyes on the Asian Championship to...

Rafael Nadal beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-7, 7-5 in the final of the 68th edition of the Banco Sabadell Barcelona Open, which is better known as the Conde de Godo Trophy, to claim the title for the 12th time in his career.Nadal had knocked Ilya Ivashka, Kei...

The 2019 Asian Youth Champion Vinka and Alfiya Pathan are among the four Indian women boxers who advanced into the semi-finals on the sixth day at the AIBA Youth Men's and Women's World Boxing Championships in Kielce.Gitika and Poonam are the other two boxers...

Deepak Punia (86kg) settled for silver on the final day of the Asian Wrestling Championships after losing 10-0 to Iranian Olympic champion Hassan Yazdanicharati on Sunday while Sanjeet (92kg) won bronze.India thus end the Asian Championships with seven medals...

Rafael Nadal was dumped out of the Monte Carlo Masters as Andrey Rublev completed a superb 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 victory in their quarter-final clash.Nadal went into the meeting with a 73-5 record at the event but Russian Rublev was in inspired form and stunned his...

Top seed Novak Djokovic felt at home as he coasted past teenager Jannik Sinner in straight sets to book his place in the third round of the Monte-Carlo Masters on Wednesday.World No. 1 Djokovic, making a first appearance since his Australian Open success...

Top Indian sailor Nethra Kumanan's lead at the top dwindled but she continued to hold her position in the Laser Radial event on Day 4 of the Mussanah Open Championship 2021  -- an Asian qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics.The team of KC Ganapathy...

The Corona era was very challenging for the players. The sports complex remained closed and no place was found for practice with fellow players. International junior player Atul Raghav of Taekwondo practising for three to four hours continuously on the roof...

Commonwealth champion Ajay Dalal is selected for Taekwondo selection trials for Tokyo Olympics with 4.32 points in the 87+ kg category. The Sports Authority of India (SAI) is going to conduct three-day selection trials at the Sports Authority of India Lucknow Regional...

OmanIndian sailor Nethra Kumanan overcame the disappointment of a poor second race on Day 1, in which she had finished seventh, to get back into contention for a 2021 Tokyo Olympics quota on Day 2 of the Mussanah Open Championship on Sunday.The first Indian woman...

Legendary British boxer Amir Khan knows a trick or two about how to groom talent, having become Britain's youngest pugilist to win a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics when he was only 17 years old. Now a promoter and a philanthropist, he is grooming a young...

Tennis great Roger Federer has become an official brand ambassador for Switzerland Tourism (ST), the country's national tourism board."Roger Federer and Switzerland Tourism will together develop initiatives to promote Switzerland globally. The support is much...

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton clinched a nail-biting Bahrain Grand Prix season opener, beating Max Verstappen of Red Bull in a duel that went down to the last lap of the race. Valtteri Bottas, also driving a Mercedes, completed the podium.Starting from fourth pole...

The Chennai-Puducherry combination of Soorya PM and Navneeth Kumar rode a smart, tactical race to win the overall title in the TVS Eurogrip MMSC Motorcycle Endurance Race 2021 at the MMRT, here on Sunday.The pair also topped the pro-stock 301-400cc category...

Indian teenageers Vijayveer Sidhu and Tejaswini won the 25m rapid fire pistol mixed team gold at the World Cup on Saturday. They beat compatriots Gurpreet Singh and Abhidnya Ashok Patil 9-1 in a one-sided final.This was India's 13th gold medal of the World...

Haryana state emerged champions in the junior Greco Roman category of the National Wrestling Championship on Saturday. Of the eight gold medals at stake, Haryana won five to win the overall team title by securing 225 points.Delhi team finished second with 150...

Host India continued dominance of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, winning two more gold medals on Friday to take their tally to 12 gold, seven silver and six bronze medals for a total of 25 medals won so far.Seasoned rifle shooters...

India's sports pistol aces Rahi Sarnobat, Manu Bhaker, and Chinki Yadav, all Tokyo Olympic Games quota winners, struck gold yet again in the women's 25m pistol team event of the World Cup here on Thursday.This was India's 10th gold of this World Cup, being held...

The ISSF Shooting World Cup had a special guest today as Union Sports Minister Shri Kiren Rijiju was present at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range for the Women’s 25m Pistol final. He presented medals to the winners which had an Indian clean sweep with Chinki...

Promising rifle shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar on Wednesday won gold in the men's 50 metres rifle 3-position while Chinki Yadav won the women's 25 metres sports pistol event in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup here.It was an Indian...

Despite winning an Olympic quota place for India, Chinki Yadav wasn't sure she would make it to the Olympic Games this year in the women's 25m sports pistol event. There was speculation that Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker would travel to...

Skeet mixed team comprising Angad Bajwa and Ganemat Sekhon won India's seventh gold medal of the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup on Tuesday when they beat Kazakhstan's Alexandr Yechshenko and Olga Panarina 33-29 in the final here.This was...

India's Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Ganemat Sekhon on Tuesday won gold in the skeet mixed team event of the Shooting World Cup here. The pair beat Kazakhstan's Olga Panarina and Alexandr Yechshenko 33-29 in the final for India's seventh gold medal of the tournament.This...

Mairaj Khan, Angad Bajwa and Gurjoat Khangura won the men's team final to clinch India's third gold medal of the day at the Shooting World Cup here.Mairaj, Bajwa and Khangura beat Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiya, Ali Ahmed Al-Ishaq and Rashid Hamad 6-2 in the final.Meanwhile,...

Indian pistol shooters gave a good account of themselves as they took the gold medal tally to three by winning both men and women's 10m air pistol team events on the second day of the World Cup at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges on Sunday.The national team consisting...

Yashaswini Deswal on Saturday won host India the first gold medal of the World Cup when she beat compatriot Manu Bhaker in the final of the women's 10m air pistol competition.Victoria Chaikha of Belarus won bronze.India won three more medals on Saturday, with Divyansh...