athletics

Navneet Singh -October 13, 2023

Palak Gulia, a 17-year-old from Gurugram, who became India’s first-ever Asian Games gold-medallist in women’s 10m air pistol, spends 12 hours training for the sport

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Navneet Singh -September 29, 2023

Delhi runner Rahul, who’d buy second-hand kit and shoes from the Sunday Chor Bazaar due to hard times, has become the fourth fastest Indian in 1500m

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Navneet Singh -July 4, 2023

India’s top decathlete Tejaswin Shankar, who won gold at the recent National Inter State Athletics, is putting his American experience to prepare for Asian Championships and Asiad

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Khurram Habib -August 12, 2022

Top achievers like cricketer Madan Lal, footballer Surinder Kumar and others among Delhi’s sporting community tell Patriot about how the landscape of five major fields has changed in the national capital

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Chander Shekhar Luthra -June 23, 2021

After inspiring generations, the legendary athlete Milkha Singh succumbed to post Covid complications on 18 June. A look at his life and achievements The first time I met Milkha Singh, it was somewhere in 1985 at the Punjab University campus playground area in Chandigarh. He was taking an evening stroll along with his better half, […]

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Shaunak Ghosh -September 27, 2018

At an age where people lose all hope of living and are confined to one corner of the bed due to illness, Mann Kaur, 103, is winning medals in running in different events across the world Mann Kaur of Punjab recently won a gold medal at the World Masters Games in Malaga, Spain where she […]

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Shaunak Ghosh -June 7, 2018

With the emergence of marathon and running clubs in and around the city, the sport of running appears to emerge as the next big thing in the capital in the coming days Housewife Alka Jain, 52, actively participated in athletics in her school days. Unfortunately, she had to keep her passion at bay as she […]

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