Barshim Bondarenko Brilliance Brighten up Brussels’ Second DL Final-Gatlin Wins Sprint Double
September 6, 2014 R K Gupta
Athletics, Diamond League, IAAFThe last Diamond League meeting and second final in Brussels turned out to be as good as it could ever get. There were commanding performances and another 16 DL champions emerged as the meeting concluded. Each winner received a cash prize of US $ 40000, a glittering diamond trophy crafted by Beyer of Zurich, one […]
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Crowning Glory for 16 Athletes in the First Diamond League Final in Zurich
August 30, 2014 R K Gupta
Athletes, Diamond League, IAAFThe first of the two IAAF Diamond League athletics finals brought Zurich alive Thursday night. It was the second time in quick succession that the Swiss city welcomed top world athletes, who had come here earlier for the European Championships, two weeks ago. The Weltklasse Zurich track and field arena was witness to the crowning […]
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Youth Olympic Games – A Unique Concept in Competitive Sports
August 29, 2014 R K Gupta
IOC, YOG, Youth OlympicThe idea of Youth Olympic Games or YOG is relatively new and it was mooted by an Austrian national Johann Rosenzopf in 1998. Rosenzopf communicated his concept to the Austrian Olympic Committee, which in turn forwarded his idea to the International Olympic Committee. Rosenzopf believed that institutionalizing YOG for children in the age group 0f 14-18 […]
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Top Athletic Stars Light up the Diamond League Night at Stockholm after a Long Break from Monaco
August 23, 2014 R K Gupta
Athletic, Athletics, Diamond League, IAAFThe 11th leg of IAAF diamond league was staged at Stockholm on August 21, 2014 after a long break from the 10th meeting at Monaco. The historical 1912 Olympic Games stadium, called Stockholm’s Stadion in the Swedish capital greeted star athletes on Thursday evening for the DN Galan meeting on a venue, which has seen […]
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Pavey surpasses her Commonwealth Bronze by claiming European Gold
August 13, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, European Athletics Championships, Jo PaveyAt the Commonwealth Games, it had been suggested that English athlete Jo Pavey had produced one her finest ever track displays at the age of 40 by winning a bronze medal in the ladies 5,000 metres final. On the first night of the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, she managed to surpass that achievement by […]
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The True Significance of Modern Athletics in Commonwealth Games
August 7, 2014 R K Gupta
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, Usain BoltIn a huge shift of focus in past several years, there has been an increasing number of top athletes from the Caribbean and several erstwhile British colonies of African continent. Time was when US and Europe dominated athletics but when men and women from the Caribbean, East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa enrolled into […]
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Pavey belies her 40 years by winning Commonwealth 5,000 metres bronze medal
August 3, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, JamaicaUsain Bolt may have captured the headlines by anchoring the Jamaican team to win the 4×100 metres relay gold medal on the final day of track and field athletics competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but on the same evening, it was a veteran 40 year old athlete who proved that age and experience can […]
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Galen Rupp: The superhero American athlete
August 3, 2014 Kirti Daga
Athletics, Galen Rupp, IAAFBorn in Portland, Oregon; Galen Rupp is an American athlete currently being trained under Alberto Salazar. He is mainly known as the recent American record holder at 10,000 meter with a time of 26:44:36. While at the indoors he holds a record of 3000 meter with a time of 7:30:16, 2 miles with a time […]
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Rudisha beaten in Commonwealth final as Amos sprints to gold
August 1, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, David RudishaWhen David Rudisha won the 800 metres gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, he not only set a new World record for the distance but it was described as possibly the best athletic performance of the entire games. Since then, he has been beset by injuries and at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games 800 […]
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Weightman joy at 1500 metres silver medal demonstrates importance of Commonwealth Games
July 31, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, Laura WeightmanIn recent days, there has been much discussion concerning the relative value of the athletics programme in the 2014 British Commonwealth Games with the absence of Mo Farah, Usain Bolt and Christine Ohuruogu among others from their respective individual events. It is true that the current Glasgow games do not share the same prestige as […]
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| 2 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 61,240 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 61,110 |
| 5 | Kodai NARAOKA | 55,370 |