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Who is Leon Marchand?

In a thrilling turn of events at the world swimming championships in Japan, 21-year-old Leon Marchand achieved a remarkable feat, shattering legendary American swimmer Michael Phelps’ final individual...

July 24, 2023

Fifth Khelo India Youth Games 2022

The Government of India conducts the Khelo India Youth Games every year to hunt talents from different parts of India. The sports event is seen as the best...

January 30, 2023

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....

February 6, 2022

Maana Patel- First Indian Female Swimmer to qualify Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Maana Patel has become the first female and only the third swimmer from India to qualify Tokyo Olympics 2021 ticket. Key points Maana Patel joins Srihari Nataraj and...

July 3, 2021

Highlights from the National Aquatic Championships

In the ongoing 73rd Glenmark Senior National Aquatic Championship is being held to promote the competitive swimming amongst the Indian population and aims to provide the Indian swimmers...

September 5, 2019

Rawat made ‘B’ time standard for 2019 FINA World Championships

Indian swimmer Kushagra Rawat made the ‘B’ time standard for the 2019 FINA World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after clocking 08.07.99 in the 800m freestyle category...

April 8, 2019

Malaysia strips of right to host 2019 World Para Swimming Championships

Malaysia has been stripped of the right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships for threatening to refuse to allow Israeli athletes to take part. The decision...

January 28, 2019

Rikako Ikee becomes first female athlete to be named Most Valuable Player (MVP) at Asian Games

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee (18) became the first female athlete to be named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) at Asian Games after she scooped an unprecedented six gold...

September 3, 2018

Japanese swimmer Ikee Rikako named as Most Valuable Player (MVP) of Asian Games

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has chosen Japanese woman swimmer Rikako Ikee (18) as winner of Most Valuable Player (MVP) Trophy Award in 2018 Jakarta and Palembang Asian...

September 3, 2018

Rohan More becomes first Asian to swim across Ocean Seven

Rohan More, the Pune-based Indian long-distance swimmer, has become the first Asian and the youngest person in the world to swim across the Ocean Seven. Despite sudden drop...

February 12, 2018

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