Sport of athletics Current Affairs, GK & News

Dutee Chand wins Vogue’s Sportsperson of Year 2019

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has won the  Sportsperson of the Year 2019 in the 3rd edition of the Vogue Women Of The Year awards. Besides winning the prestigious honour, Dutee will also feature on the cover of Vogue India’s November 2019 edition. Dutee broke the national record in the 100-metre event at the National Open ..

Topics: Dutee Chand • Gender verification in sports • Magazines • Mass media • Sport of athletics • Sports • Vogue

Sprinter Nirmala Sheoran banned for 4 years

Indian sprinter Nirmala Sheoran has been banned for four years for doping and stripped of her 400m and 4x400m relay titles from the 2017 Asian Championships. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has stated that she tested positive for steroids drostanolone and metenolone in sample taken at the Inter-State meet in Guwahati in June 2018. Hence, ..

Topics: Athletics Integrity Unit • Doping in sport • Metenolone • Nirmala Sheoran • Sheoran • Sport of athletics • Sports

Salwa Eid Naser becomes first woman athlete from Asia to win 400m gold

Bahrain sprinter  Salwa Eid Naser has become the first woman athlete from Asia to win the 400m gold in the ongoing IAAF World Athletics Championships (WAC) Doha 2019.  She clocked 48.14 seconds i.e., the third-fastest lap in history and the fastest in 34 years.

Topics: 400 metres • Naser • Salwa • Salwa Eid Naser • Sport of athletics • Sports • World Athletics Championships • World Championships in Athletics

Sebastian Coe re-elected as IAAF chief

During the 52nd IAAF Congress at Doha, Sebastian Coe from Britain has been re-elected as president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for a second term for 4 years. Coe is the former Olympic and world champion middle-distance runner. Beside this, Adille Sumariwalla (the President of Athletics Federation of India (AFI)) was re-elected ..

Topics: Adille Sumariwalla • International Association of Athletics Federations • Lamine Diack • Sebastian Coe • Sport of athletics • Sports • Uwe Hohn

PT Usha honoured with a IAAF Veteran Pin

During the 52nd IAAF Congress at Doha, Indian track and field legend PT Usha has been honoured with a IAAF Veteran Pin by the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) in recognition of her contribution to the growth of the sport. She is often called the “queen of track and field”. At the 1982 New Delhi ..

Topics: Indian people • International Association of Athletics Federations • Malayali people • P. T. Usha • P. U. Chitra • Sport in India • Sport of athletics

PT Usha appointed as a member of Athletes Commission of Asian Athletics Association

Legendary Indian athlete and Olympian P.T. Usha has been appointed as a member of the Athletes Commission of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA). Usha will be one of the six members of the AAA Athletes Commission. The commission will be headed by 1992 Olympics gold medallist hammer thrower Andrey Abduvaliyev of Uzbekistan. Usha is known ..

Topics: Andrey Abduvaliyev • Asian Games • Malayali people • P. T. Usha • Payyoli • Sport in India • Sport of athletics • Usha