The event was slated in Bhopal from January 27-29 and was to serve as selection trials for the Asian Athletics Championships, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
16-year-old Rupal was the cynosure of all eyes, with her girls U-18 triumph coming in a personal best time of 53.73 seconds. She bettered her previous best of 55.37 seconds.
The contract of the 59-year-old German, a former world record holder, was valid until the end of the Tokyo Olympics.
AFI looks to recruit as many as 10 elite coaches ahead of a jam-packed 2022 season that includes Asian Games, CWG and World Championships.
The Georges' protege Shaili Singh clinched World U-20 Athletics Championships silver medal on Sunday with a jump of 6.59m in Nairobi.
Indian runners -- Priya Mohan, Barath Sridhar, Summy and Kapil -- clocked season-best of 3:20.60 seconds to finish third behind Nigeria (gold at 3:19.70 seconds) and Poland (3:19.80 secs).
Neeraj Chopra's former coach's contract with SAI ran out at the end of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Following Chopra's success at the Tokyo Olympics, the official handle's video celebrating the thrower's iconic win was the most-watched Olympics video on Twitter in India.
The 23-year-old Chopra became only the second Indian to win an individual Olympic gold in Tokyo on Saturday when he clinched the yellow metal in javelin throw with a best effort of 87.58m.
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra said that every athlete dreams of winning a medal in the Games and there's no better feeling than clinching gold. The 23-year-old Chopra became not just India's first Olympic gold-medallist in 13 years but also the first track and field athlete to achieve the feat.
AFI's selection committee, in an emergency meeting, arrived at a "unanimous decision" to not pull the two athletes out of the 26-member squad.
After winning the 2019 Asian Championships gold, her urine sample returned positive for an anabolic steroid and she was provisionally suspended.
An Indian athletics team, including star sprinters Hima Das and Dutee Chand, was on Wednesday forced out of next month's Olympic qualifying World Athletics Relays in Poland.
The Olympic-bound javelin thrower injured his left ankle and has been advised not to throw for a week with Federation Cup slated from March 15.
In an exclusive conversation with Indiatvnews.com, AFI president Adille Sumariwalla explains how champions like Neeraj are honed and handled with care while revealing that the athlete will be training and competing in Europe in May.
The dead body of the 72-year-old Snesarev, who returned to India after a gap of two years to be at the helm till the end of September, has been sent to a government hospital for post mortem.
Hima's performance of 23.31 seconds in 200m fell short of the Olympic qualification timing of 22.80 secs; Dutee clocks 11.44 seconds to take 100m gold.
Herrmann said on his Facebook page that he had resigned from the post "three weeks ago" after he was convinced that he could no longer "meet the self-imposed expectations" of his role.
The World Athletics president attends AFI Annual General Meeting via video conference in Gurugram on Sunday.
Anju's senior vice-presidentship is the highest post to have been occupied by a woman in AFI's history. She is also the first woman vice-president of the AFI
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