Athletics Current Affairs, GK & News
Target Olympic Podium Scheme to be launched for Junior Athletes
The Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijju has launched the Target Olympic Podium Scheme for junior atheletes. The scheme will groom them for the Olympics that is to be held in 2024 and 2028. What is the plan? The GoI is to identify 10 to 12 year old talents through the scheme and will train them ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs • Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Athletics • Boxing • Government Schemes India • India at the Olympics • Olympics • Target Olympic Podium Scheme • Wrestling
Asian Championship Winner Gomathi Marimuthu stripped off Medal
The Asian Championship Gold medal winner Gomathi Marimuthu has been stripped off the medal and also banned from sport activities for 4 years. The 31-year old athlete had tested positive for anabolic steroid Nandrolene at the 2019 Asian Championship. Highlights Gomathi Marimuthu is an Indian field runner hailing from Tamil Nadu. She won her first ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Asian championships • Athletics • Court of arbitration for Sport (CAS) • Doping • Gomathi Marimuthu • Olympic Games
Asian Youth Games to be held in China in November 2021
The Olympic Council of Asia announced that the third Asian Youth Games is to be held in China in November 2021. Around 18 Olympic games such as rock climbing, athletics, gymnastics, aquatics, boat racing are to be included. Asian Youth Games The Asian Youth Games is held once in four years. It is organized by ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Asian Games • Athletics • Olympic Committee • Olympic Council of Asia • Olympic Games
Joginder Singh Saini passes away
Veteran athletics coach and Dronacharya awardee Joginder Singh Saini recently passed away at the age of 90. He had served as the Chief national athletics coach for several years between 1970 and 1990. He had also been the chief coach of the then Amateur Athletics Federation of India. Saini received the prestigious Dronacharya Award in 1997 for ..
Topics: Athletics • Athletics Federation of India • Dronacharya Award
South Asian Games: India leads with 214 medals
India has won 110 gold, 69 silver and 35 bronze at the South Asian Games, 2019. On the whole India won 214 medals. The event was held in Nepal. Highlights In athletics, India won 49 medals that comprised of 23 gold, 20 silver and 6 bronze. India also won two gold and five silver medals ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Athletics • India-Nepal • Nepal • South Asian Games • Wildlife Protection Act 1972