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Mirabai carries Indian weightlifting as juniors rise but doping woes persist in 2025Indian weightlifting saw Mirabai Chanu win a World Championships silver medal. This was the sport's main achievement this year. Doping issu...- Esports to make its debut at KIYG 2025 as demonstration sportEsports will debut as a demonstration sport at the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 in Bihar, scheduled from May 4-15. The event will feature 2...
- After Asian success India's youth weightlifters eye Commonwealth Games 2026 qualificationIndian athletes aim to reach higher levels after winning 33 medals at the Asian youth and junior weightlifting championships in Doha. They ...
- A year of turbulence: Mirabai Chanu and Indian weightlifting's unfulfilled dreamsMirabai Chanu, India's weightlifting star, aimed for a second Olympic medal in Paris 2024. She secured her spot despite an injury. Chanu fi...
- India's Sanjana wins gold in clean and jerk, silver in snatch and total liftSanjana also won a silver in the snatch with an effort of 86kg in the youth competition. She lifted 112kg in clean and jerk to pick up a go...
- Siddhanta Gogoi crowned 61kg junior Asian champion; Gyaneshwari, Koyel win silver medalsThe 19-year-old Siddhanta, who had upstaged senior Shubham Todkar earlier this month at the Commonwealth Championships, lifted 265kg (116kg...
- India will host Olympics in future, says Sports Minister Anurag Thakur"Our athletes are performing well and the federations are becoming more accountable. There is transparency, accountability and professional...
- Indian lifters set for rich medal haul despite absence of MirabaiSince the 2011 edition of the Commonwealth Championships, India have finished as the best-performing nation every time barring in 2013 and ...
- Weightlifter Gurunaidu Sanapathi becomes Youth World ChampionWhile Sanapathi, the 2020 Asian Youth Weightlifitng Championships bronze medallist, stood on top of the podium, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's A...
- Arunachal to get 3 state-of-the-art sports academies soon: RijijuSeeking the support of the state government for establishing the academies, Rijiju said the Centre would provide all budgetary support.
- King Kohli, Magnificent Mary make 2018 their own; India discovers new stars tooThere was a plethora of big-ticket sporting events this year and the country had lots to celebrate throughout. Whether it was the Commonwea...
- Landmark year for weightlifters but no getting away from dope shame eitherRecords shattered, a teen star discovered and a best-ever medal haul at a marquee event -- it could well have been the perfect year for Ind...
- India’s record in Olympic sports is poor, but that could change soonThings, though, have changed. Shooting is the best case study. India have sent four shooters to the Youth Olympics and each will return wit...
- Manu Bhaker , Jeremy Lalrinnunga make it a day of golden firsts for India at Youth OlympicsBhaker began the eight-woman final with a 10.0 and followed it up with a 10.1 and 10.4. She led the Stage 1 with 99.3 after a sequence that...
- Mizo weightlifting sensation claims India's first Youth Olympics goldThe 15-year-old from Aizawl , who is also a world youth silver-medallist, lifted a total of 274kg (124kg +150kg) to finish on top in the Ar...
- Doping menace comes back to haunt Indian weightlifting in 2015The two women lifters -- Pramila Krisani and Minati Sethi -- were caught for doping at the Commonwealth Championships in Pune in October an...
- India to host international weightlifting event for first timeIndia will field 40 weightlifters - 11 youth (boys & girls), 16 junior (men & women) and 13 senior (men & women) - in the Commonwealth Cham...
- Junior weightlifters end campaign with 14 medalsIndia won a silver on the last day of the competition today as Swapna Priya Baruah ended second in the Junior Women 69kg division.
- Junior India women lifters bag medalsIn the Junior Women's 53kg category, Pramila lifted 76kg in snatch and 101kg in clean & jerk for an overall 177kg to seal the silver medal ...
- Monika Devi named among core probables for CWG, AsiadMonika Devi has been included among 26 core probables for the upcoming Commonwealth and Asian Games after she won the gold in Nationals.
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