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India At The 2015 World Championships In Athletics ...
India competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics from August 22 to August 30 in China, Beijing. Results (q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best) Men ;Track and road events ;Field events Women ;Track and road events References {{Nations at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics Nations at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics World Championships in Athletics 2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics Federation Of India
The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is the national governing body for Athletics sport in India, and is responsible for conducting competitions in the country. It was formed in 1943. It is affiliated to World Athletics and Asian Athletics Association (AAA). It was formerly called as Amateur Athletic Federation of India (AAFI). History Athletics Federation of India, then Amateur Athletic Federation of India (AAFI), was formed in 1946 at the initiative of Prof. G.D. Sondhi and Maharaja Yadvindra Singh. Prof. G.D. Sondhi was its first President for a short while, resigning on 13 April 1950. Competitions AFI organises following national level Athletics compitions annually, periodically in the country: * National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Compition * Indian Open Reacewalking compition * Indian Open Javelin throw compition * National Federation Cup under-20 Athletics championships * National Inter-state senior Athletics championships * National Javelin Throw Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 World Championships In Athletics – Men's Discus Throw
The men's discus throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 29 August. Three time defending champion Robert Harting and his exuberant celebrations would not be here due to knee surgery, opening up opportunities for others. Returning silver medalist Piotr Małachowski is the world leader hoping to move up a notch. In the trials, it took Fedrick Dacres one toss to make an automatic qualifier, Małachowski took three attempts to do, but nobody else could get there. In the finals, Małachowski took the lead on the second throw of the competition with a 65.09, the next thrower was Dacres who put out a 64.22. Later in the round, 36-year-old Gerd Kanter threw 64.82 to take over second. In the second round Małachowski solidified his lead by throwing 67.40 which turned out to be the gold medal-winning throw. Three throws later Apostolos Parellis threw 64.55 to take over third. In the third round, Philip Milanov popped a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 World Championships In Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 Metres Relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 and 30 August. Summary The Jamaican team announced their intention to win this race early in the championships by placing all four of their relay team members in the top six of the final of the 400 metres. The American squad had two women in that same race, one of them the winner Allyson Felix. Their ace in the hole was having the top two in the world, prior to the American championships, fail to make the individual event but were available for the relay. Both Olympic Champion Sanya Richards-Ross and World Indoor Champion Francena McCorory demonstrated their occasional ability to run excellent 350 meter races in that meet, their flailing last 50 metres is why they didn't qualify for the individual race. All the other teams ran their season best just to make the finals, Bahamas and Japan set National Records and still failed to qualify. In the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debasree Majumdar
Debashree Mazumdar (born 6 April 1991) is an Indian sprint athlete from Kolkata who specializes in 4 × 400 metres relay races. Career Debashree Mazumdar works for the Income Tax department as an Income Tax Inspector in Delhi. In 2017 she was part of the winning 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar along with M. R. Poovamma, Jisna Mathew and Nirmala Sheoran Nirmala Sheoran (born 15 July 1995) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres event. Early life and career Sheoran was born in Chehad Khurd village of Haryana state's Bhiwani district. She qualified for two events at the 2016 S .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazumdar, Debashree Living people 1991 births Athletes from Kolkata Indian female sprinters Indian female hurdlers 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Commonwealth Games competitors for India Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jisna Mathew
Jisna Mathew (born 7 January 1999) is an Indian sprinter from Kerala. Career She represented India at the 2016 Summer Olympics held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also won silver medals for 400m in 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games and 2015 Asian Youth Athletics Championships . She also won two gold medals for 400m and 4×400m in 2016 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. And she won three medals Gold medal in 400m , silver medal in 4×400m and a bronze 200m in 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. In 2017, she won a silver medal in 400m and won a gold medal as a part of the winning 4x400m relay team at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar along with Debashree Mazumdar, M. R. Poovamma and Nirmala Sheoran Nirmala Sheoran (born 15 July 1995) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres event. Early life and career Sheoran was born in Chehad Khurd village of Haryana state's Bhiwani district. She qualified for two events at the 2016 S .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khushbir Kaur
Khushbir Kaur (born 9 July 1993) is an Indian athlete, a 20-kilometre racewalker. She first came into limelight after winning bronze in the walk race at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships held at Colombo, Sri Lanka. She participated in the 2013 World Championships in the 20 km walk category. She clocked 1:34:28 and finished 39th. At the 2014 Asian walking championships in Japan, she came second with a timing of 1:33:07 and bettered her own national record of 1:33:37. In the same year, she became the first Indian woman to win a silver at the Asian Games. She received the Arjuna Award in 2017 after her consecutive victories in International sports events. Khushbir Kaur is supported by Anglian Medal-Hunt Company. Early life Kaur hails from Rasulpur Kalan, a village near Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 World Championships In Athletics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk
The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 28 August. Summary The defending champion Elena Lashmanova would not be here, while she serves her drug suspension. In fact the entire Russian team did not compete here amid the drug scandal surrounding their coach Viktor Chegin. It looked like world record holder, world leader Liu Hong, walking on home soil was the prohibitive favorite. Liu's one complication was her teammate Xiuzhi Lu. Like in the men's race, the two Chinese walkers took off hard from the start, only Anežka Drahotová tried to go with them. That lasted about 4 km, from that point on the two walkers were out on their own almost tied by a string, swapping the lead occasionally though Lu was setting the pace the majority of the time. They hit 5K in 22:24; 10K in 44:19 (21:55 split) with a 30-second lead and 15K in 1:06:24 (22:05 split). The chase pack was Lyudmyla Olyanovska, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapana Punia
Sapana, also known as Sapana Punia (born 2 January 1988) is a female racewalker from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. She competed in the Women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. She competed in the 20 km walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of the same name, Brazil's List of Brazilian states by population, third-most populous state, and the List of largest citi ..., Brazil but did not finish. She set a national record in the 20 km walk at the 2015 National Games with at time of 1:40:35.70. Punia is also a sub-inspector in the Rajasthan Police. References External links * Indian female racewalkers Indian police officers Living people Athletes from Jaipur Sportswomen from Rajasthan 1988 births World Athletics Championships athletes for India Olympic athletes for India A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 World Championships In Athletics – Women's 3000 Metres Steeplechase
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 26 August. Summary The reigning champion from 2013 Milcah Chemos Cheywa was absent from the competition due to a back injury. This championship race had a preview of sorts at the 2015 Herculis meet in Monaco where most of the finalists raced to a different order. That race was won by Habiba Ghribi in the world leading time. This final was going to be slower and tactical, everybody was watching each other. A lap into the race, Lalita Babar broke away, building up a 10 to 15 meter gap on the pack. She was treated as a breakaway in a bicycle racing, but the peloton didn't give chase. With 2 laps to go, the pack led by Emma Coburn swallowed up the lead and went past. For the next lap, the pack was content to let Coburn lead, Ghribi coming up to her shoulder and the rest going sometimes five abreast over the barriers. At the bell, Ghribi too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalita Babar
Lalita Babar (born 2 June 1989) is an Indian long-distance runner. She was born in a small village in the Satara district, Maharashtra. She predominantly competes in the 3000 metres steeplechase and is the current Indian national record holder and the reigning Asian Champion in the same event. Babar was named as the Sports Person of the Year in the India Sports Awards 2015 organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of India. Early life and junior career Babar was born on 2 June 1989 in Mohi, a village in Satara district, in the Indian State of Maharashtra into a family of farmers. She was born in an area which was regularly affected by droughts, which adversely affects the agriculture in the area. Babar started her career in athletics as a long-distance runner at a young age. She won her first Gold medal in the U-20 National Championships at Pune in 2005. Career Babar began her career in trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudha Singh
Sudha Singh (born 25 June 1986) is an Indian Olympic athlete in the 3000 metres steeplechase event. A national record holder in the event, she has represented India at international events since 2005. Singh is an Asian Champion in the discipline and has won two gold and four silver medals at varying editions of the Asian Games and the continental championships. Singh's breakthrough came at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, where she won the gold medal in steeplechase. She has since won a gold at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar and a silver at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and has represented India at two consecutive Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016. Singh was conferred with India's second highest sporting honour, the Arjuna Award in 2012.She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021. Career Singh's breakthrough performance came in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China when she won the gold medal with a time of 9:5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Indian Records In Athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in India. Some of the records are maintained by Athletics Federation of India (AFI). Outdoor times for track races between 200 meters to 10,000 meters are set on 400-meter unbanked tracks. Indoor marks are established on 200-meter tracks, banked or unbanked. Indoor tracks longer than 200 meters are considered "oversized" and times are not accepted for record purposes. Key to tables: : + = en route to a longer distance : h = hand timing : A = affected by altitude : X = annulled due to doping violation Outdoor Men Women Mixed Indoor Men Women Cross country Notes References ;GeneralIndian Outdoor records''5 September 2022 updated'' *World Athletics Statistic Handbook 2022;Specific External linksAFI web site {{National records in athletics Indian Records Athletics Records Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
