AFI News

Neeraj sustained a groin injury during the final of the World Athletics Championships in July and missed the Commonwealth Games 2022 due to same reason. As per Sumariwalla, the same injury has led to Neeraj's javelin season coming to a premature end. 

Klaus Bartonietz took charge as Neeraj Chopra’s coach from compatriot and former world record holder javelin thrower Uwe Hohn during the youngster's rehabilitation and recovery process after an elbow surgery in 2018. 

Neeraj Chopra will train at the world-class facility in the USA for 90 days along with coach Klaus Bartoneitz after the Sports Authority of India cleared a proposal in quick time on Friday last.

Hima Das on Wednesday took on Twitter and wrote: "I would like to inform everyone that I have been tested positive for Covid-19. I am stable and at the moment in isolation. I look forward to utilising this time to recover and come back stronger than before.”

Raised in a very poor family in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai, Revathi, the first of two daughters, lost her parents at a very young age and was brought up by her grandmother.

As many as 12 athletes and the 4x400m mixed relay team has achieved entry standards laid down by World Athletics, to secure automatic berths.

Chand's overall position of World No. 44 in 100m and World No. 51 in 200m were well within the ranks to make her eligible to fly to Tokyo next month.

Seema breached the Olympic qualification mark (63.50m) in the women's category to achieve the feat. She registered an attempt of 63.72m on the last day of the Inter-State meet in Patiala.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has said that it is looking to resume their domestic calender in September 2020 subject to the situation in the country in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.

Hadadi, a six-times Asian Championship winner, became Iran's first-ever World Championships medallist in 2011.  

Sachin also performed push-ups as part of an initiative through which money will be donated to `Bharat Ke Veer` contribution platform

Govindan Lakshmanan was disqualified from the Asian Games 2018. 

Javelin thrower Annu Rani and 1500m athlete Monika Chaudhary were ruled out of the 2018 Asian Games.

Tintu Luka, citing injury, had also pulled out of the recent Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in June.

The 55-year-old Hohn, the only javelin thrower in history to have crossed the 100m mark, took charge as coach at the national camp here in November last year but four months into his job he is feeling "annoyed" that the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) and Sports Authority Of India (SAI) have not fulfilled their promises.

American Film Institute (AFI) on Thursday chose 10 films of the year. The AFI's list is non-competitive with no overall winner. The list was announced as Hollywood's awards season moves into high gear with nominations next week for the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

Kang, who became the first Indian javelin thrower to reach the final round of a World Championships last week in London, returned positive for marijuana in an in-competition test conducted by NADA during the Indian Grand Prix in May 15.

AFI's move came after Sports Minister Goel had earlier in the day advised the national federation to honour the Kerala High Court directive on Chitra to ensure her participation in the world meet.

It was an in-competition test, which was conducted last month during the National Youth Championship in Hyderabad.

The yet-to-be-named athlete was suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after being caught with meldonium at the National Institute of Sports in Patiala.