Athletics Current Affairs, GK & News
New Events of 2028 Olympics
The 2028 Olympics is to be held in Los Angeles. This is after the 2024 Olympics to be held in Paris. The 2022 Olympics was held in Tokyo. These are all the summer Olympics, the main Olympics. The one that is being held in China right now is Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee determines ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: 2024 Paris Olympics • 2028 Los Angeles Olympics • AIBA • Archery • Athletics • Badminton • Basketball • Boxing • Cycling • International Olympic Committee • Pentathlon • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis • Triathlon • Volleyball • Weight Lifting • Wrestling
Anju Bobby George wins Woman of the Year Award from World Athletics
The Indian Athlete Anju Bobby George has won the Woman of the Year Award from World Athletics. She has won the award for grooming young girls to take up sports. What are Anju’s achievements? She is a gold medallist in 2005 IAAF World Athletics Finals. She was the first Indian athlete to win bronze medal ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Anju Bobby George • Asian Athletics Championships • Athelete • Athletics • Khelo India
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