New Delhi, Feb 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 24-year-old Kenyan long-distance runner and the marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach Gervais Hakizimana died in a road traffic accident. The accident occurred on Sunday at…
Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium), Feb 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) National record holder Tejaswin Shankar impressively began his 2024 season, winning the high jump event at the International High Jump Gala Elmos 2024 athletics meet. Competing for the first time…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has said that she will retire after the 2024 Paris Olympics as she wants to spend more time with her family. The Jamaican star won…
Uppsala, Feb 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Reigning world record holder and Olympic champion pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has kicked off his 2024 year in style with a win at his own hometown meet ‘Mondo Classic’ here. The…
Monaco, Feb 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics, the global governing body for international track and field competitions, has ratified Kelvin Kiptum’s world marathon record of 2:00:35 set in Chicago last year. Kenya’s Kiptum became the first…
Glasgow, Feb 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) With less than four weeks to go until the first champion is crowned, the organisers have on Monday (February 5) revealed the medals specially commissioned for the World Athletics Indoor Championships…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Legendary sprinter and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha on Sunday was conferred with the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award by the Sports Journalists Federation of India (SJFI) and Delhi Sports…
New Delhi, Feb 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) in their recent meeting approved Commonwealth Games medallist Tejaswin Shankar’s request for financial assistance towards participation…
Chennai, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Punjab’s international race walker, Manju Rani, had a good run at the 11th edition of the National Open Race Walking Competition. The day after winning gold in the women’s 20km, she…
Chandigarh, Jan 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uttarakhand’s Suraj Panwar has achieved the qualifying standard for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the men’s 20km race walk event at the Indian Open Race Walking Competition, here on Tuesday. Panwar…
Chandigarh, Jan 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Aspiring athletes aiming to cement their place in the national squad for the July 26 to August 11 Paris Olympic Games are both mentally and physically tuned to deliver the goods…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) With their eyes set on performing well at the upcoming Paris Olympics Games later this year, middle distance runners Avinash Sable and Parul Choudhary, both medallists at last year’s Asian…
Chennai, Jan 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) At the age of 17 years, young javelin thrower Deepika from Haryana has made it a habit to break records, just like her idol Neeraj Chopra, the reigning Olympic and World…
Zurich (Switzerland), Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian Olympic and world champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra found himself in the company of tennis legend Roger Federer in Zurich, a moment he aptly described as a “dream come…
Hong Kong, Jan 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Anderson Seroi of Kenya won the men’s title as African athletes dominated the podium with about 74,000 runners competing in the 2024 Hong Kong Marathon here on Sunday. The annual…
Mumbai, Jan 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ethiopian Hayle Lemi Berhanu became only the second athlete to defend the men’s crown in the history of the Mumbai Marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race, as he successfully…
Mumbai, Jan 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Gopi T is looking to get into the groove in his favourite race for two more marathons to come before Paris 2024. “I will aim for the course record at Tata…
Mumbai, Jan 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic Games and pole vault champion Katie Moon, the international Event Ambassador for Mumbai Marathon 2024, is focused on qualifying for Paris 2024 as defending the title will come later. “We…
Mumbai, 5 Jan (SocialNews.XYZ) Defending champions and event record holders Ethiopians Hayle Lemi Berhanu and Anchialem Haymanot will headline the 19th edition of the Mumbai Marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race, scheduled on…
Monaco, Jan 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics, the governing body for track and field and road running events, has ratified World records set by CJ Albertson (men’s 50km), Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Men’s 100km) and Aleksandr Sorokin (Men’s…