Athletics Federation Of India
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India set to host star-studded javelin competition in 2025 headlined by Neeraj Chopra
Other Sports | January 08, 2025 7:45 ISTThe top competition is set to feature 10 of the world's best javelin throw athletes featuring India's two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra with a tentative September window in mind. The outgoing AFI chief mentioned that Chopra is part of the organising team alongside JSW and a foreign firm.
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India set to bid for 2027 World Athletics Championships, believes Neeraj Chopra
Other Sports | August 31, 2023 12:29 ISTWorld Champion Neeraj Chopra believes that India will be bidding for the World Athletics Championships 2027.
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Olympian and Asian Games relay bronze winner Kenneth Powell dies
Other Sports | December 11, 2022 18:40 ISTIndia's athlete Kenneth Powell on Sunday took his last breath and died in Bengaluru. Powell is a Arjuna Awardee and won the Bronze medal in 4x100m relay in 1970 Asian Games.
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AFI postpones National Youth Athletics Championships
Other Sports | January 04, 2022 17:43 ISTThe 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.
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Ayush Dabas, Rupal Chaudhary emerge fastest runners at 400m Nationals
Other Sports | October 13, 2021 9:34 IST16-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.
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Javelin throw coach Uwe Hohn out, AFI says it is hiring two new coaches
Other Sports | September 13, 2021 20:50 ISTThe contract of the 59-year-old German, a former world record holder, was valid until the end of the Tokyo Olympics.
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AFI begins hunt for new javelin, 400m foreign coaches
Other Sports | September 08, 2021 19:01 ISTAFI looks to recruit as many as 10 elite coaches ahead of a jam-packed 2022 season that includes Asian Games, CWG and World Championships.
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Shaili is more or less like me, will be happy to see her break my record: Anju Bobby George
Other Sports | August 23, 2021 14:21 ISTThe Georges' protege Shaili Singh clinched World U-20 Athletics Championships silver medal on Sunday with a jump of 6.59m in Nairobi.
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India win 4X400m mixed team Bronze medal at World U-20 Athletics Championships
Other Sports | August 18, 2021 23:52 ISTIndian 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).
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Javelin coach Uwe Hohn on his way out as his contract ends: sources
Other Sports | August 10, 2021 21:00 ISTNeeraj Chopra's former coach's contract with SAI ran out at the end of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Neeraj Chopra third most talked-about athlete globally on Twitter; hockey logs record high
Other Sports | August 10, 2021 17:11 ISTFollowing 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.
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AFI to celebrate August 7, Neeraj Chopra's Tokyo Olympic gold winning Day, as National Javelin Day
Other Sports | August 10, 2021 15:02 ISTThe 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.
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Athletics Federation of India to take action against under-performers at Tokyo Olympics
Other Sports | July 23, 2021 16:01 ISTAFI's selection committee, in an emergency meeting, arrived at a "unanimous decision" to not pull the two athletes out of the 26-member squad.
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CAS rejects Gomathi Marimuthu's appeal against doping ban
Other Sports | May 05, 2021 16:34 ISTAfter winning the 2019 Asian Championships gold, her urine sample returned positive for an anabolic steroid and she was provisionally suspended.
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India miss Olympic qualifier World Relays in Poland due to COVID-forced flight suspension
Other Sports | April 28, 2021 20:38 ISTAn 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.
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Exclusive: Javelin thrower Shivpal Singh to sit out of Federation Cup with ankle injury
Other Sports | March 11, 2021 12:01 ISTThe 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.
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Neeraj Chopra's consistency shows he means business in Tokyo
Other Sports | February 21, 2023 12:11 ISTIn 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.
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Athletics coach Nikolai Snesarev found dead at NIS Patiala hostel room
Other Sports | March 05, 2021 21:27 ISTThe 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.
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Dutee Chand, Hima Das win sprints at IGP 2; Amoj Jacob posts 400m personal best
Other Sports | February 26, 2021 10:25 ISTHima'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.
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AFI in search for senior, junior high-performance directors after Volker Herrmann quits
Other Sports | November 22, 2020 19:50 ISTHerrmann 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.
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