Long jumper Shaili Singh finishes 3rd at Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Japan
1 year, 7 months ago

Long jumper Shaili Singh finishes 3rd at Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Japan

The Hindu  

Shaili Singh opened her international outdoor season with a bronze in the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour-Gold event, in Yokohama on Sunday. 76, a SAI NCOE athlete who is coached by Robert Bobby George in Bengaluru’s Anju Bobby High Performance Centre, in the lead till the halfway stage before Germany’s World No. Shaili’s series also included a 6.59m in the second round under legal wind conditions and the result in this category ‘A’ event should help her climb a few rungs in the ‘Road to the Budapest’ rankings. She now has the Inter-State Nationals and the Asian Championships ahead of her.” Meanwhile Japan’s Sumire Hata, who had won the Indoor Asians gold in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, in February was fourth in Japan with 6.48m.

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Indian Grand Prix: Ancy Sojan wins gold in women’s long jump
6 months, 1 week ago

Indian Grand Prix: Ancy Sojan wins gold in women’s long jump

The Hindu  

Asian Games silver medallist Ancy Sojan marked her competitive return after a seven-month injury lay-off by clinching the women’s long jump gold with a leap of 6.52m, at the third Indian Grand Prix held at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Wednesday. Though Ancy’s winning effort was 11cms off her personal best and a whopping 34cms off the Paris threshold, the …

Taiwan Athletics Open: Nayana shocks Asian champ Sumire, takes long jump gold
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Taiwan Athletics Open: Nayana shocks Asian champ Sumire, takes long jump gold

The Hindu  

Despite rain being an issue, former Asian bronze medallist Nayana James came up with a 6.43m effort as she shocked Japan’s Asian champion Sumire Hata and won the long jump gold at the Taiwan Athletics Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Taipei on Sunday. 68 Nayana, the Federation Cup champion, is way below the young Shaili Singh …

India Open Jumps | Nayana bags long jump gold with personal best mark
9 months ago

India Open Jumps | Nayana bags long jump gold with personal best mark

The Hindu  

Kerala’s Nayana James recorded a personal best mark, leaping 6.67m to secure the women’s long jump gold at the 3rd Indian Open Jumps Competition held at the Anju Bobby George Foundation here on Wednesday. On a day when no athlete threatened the 2024 Paris Olympics qualification mark, the 28-year-old’s effort stood out, coming nearly seven years after her previous best …

Asian Para Games: Soorma shines on controversy-ridden day
1 year, 2 months ago

Asian Para Games: Soorma shines on controversy-ridden day

Hindustan Times  

The first day of competition at the Asian Para Games was marred in controversy for India as the trio of Dharambir, Pranav Soorma, and Anantram was barred from competing in the F53 men's discus throw final after they allegedly turned up late in the call room. We tried to reason it out with the officials but to no avail," said …

Asian Games 2023: Double podium in steeplechase; Ancy’s personal best jump clinches silver; mixed relay team upgraded to silver
1 year, 2 months ago

Asian Games 2023: Double podium in steeplechase; Ancy’s personal best jump clinches silver; mixed relay team upgraded to silver

The Hindu  

While the Indian focus in the 3000m Steeplechase has been firmly on Avinash Sable for a while now, Parul Chaudhary has been grafting away in the background, repeatedly breaking personal and national records among the women. On Monday, she finally stepped into the limelight with an emphatic silver behind world champion Winfred Mutile Yavi of Bahrain for India’s 12th athletics …

India's Ancy Sojan wins silver in women's long jump at Asian Games
1 year, 2 months ago

India's Ancy Sojan wins silver in women's long jump at Asian Games

Hindustan Times  

Ancy Sojan on Monday won silver in the women's long jump event at the Hangzhou Asian Games. China's Xiong Shiqi took gold with a 6.73m whole Hong Kong's Yue Nga Yan jumped a personal best mark of 6.50m to win bronze. Ancy Sojan bettered her personal best twice in the event Earlier, India picked two medals from the women's 3000m …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Yavi wins women’s 3,000 steeplechase gold with last-lap surge
1 year, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Yavi wins women’s 3,000 steeplechase gold with last-lap surge

The Hindu  

Winfred Yavi of Bahrain stalked world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech for all but one lap of the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase, surging past the Kenyan over the final 400 metres to capture gold at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday. It was a fast race but I did not realise it was that fast,” said Yavi, who was born in …

Video: World Athletics Championships: Sable fails to qualify for steeplechase final, Shaili finishes 24th in long jump
1 year, 4 months ago

Video: World Athletics Championships: Sable fails to qualify for steeplechase final, Shaili finishes 24th in long jump

The Hindu  

Those who know Avinash Sable say he is a hard individual. 🗣️ Avinash Sable: I made the mistake of thinking "I am fit, I'll save my full power for the final" The Indian athlete teared up after his showing at the #WorldAthleticsChamps in Budapest. pic.twitter.com/1emFuaFouk — Sportstar August 19, 2023 NO JOY FOR RACEWALKERS Sable’s disappointing result was emblematic of …

Asian Athletics Championships: India produce best-ever showing with 27 medals, Sreeshankar qualifies for Paris Olympics
1 year, 5 months ago

Asian Athletics Championships: India produce best-ever showing with 27 medals, Sreeshankar qualifies for Paris Olympics

Firstpost  

Murali Sreeshankar qualified for the Olympics after winning silver medal in Long Jump, while Jyothi Yarraji made it a tournament to remember with a gold in 100m hurdles and a silver in the 200m event. With the Asian Athletics Championships done and dusted, let’s now take a look at how every athlete fared at the event: Murali Sreeshankar: The 24-year-old …

Jyothi Yarraji underlines her versatility with 200m silver
1 year, 5 months ago

Jyothi Yarraji underlines her versatility with 200m silver

Hindustan Times  

The technician’s efforts to fix the faulty wiring linking the starter’s mike with the starting block speakers seemed to drag on forever. Jyothi Yarraji secured gold in her main event 100m hurdles Jyothi Yarraji stood almost motionless through all that on lane three, in this key event for India on the final day of the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok. …

Asian Athletics: Tajinderpal Singh Toor keeps gold, Parul Chaudhary wins maiden Asians title; silver for Shaili Singh
1 year, 5 months ago

Asian Athletics: Tajinderpal Singh Toor keeps gold, Parul Chaudhary wins maiden Asians title; silver for Shaili Singh

The Hindu  

As he completed his second throw at the 25th Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok on Friday, Tajinderpal Singh Toor felt the old groin pain returning to haunt him. The groin injury had forced Asian record-holder Toor to pull out of the last year’s Oregon World Championships and the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and he was very worried. “I had the pain …

Asian Athletics Championships 2023: Parul Chaudhary wins gold in 3000m steeplechase, Shaili jumps for silver
1 year, 5 months ago

Asian Athletics Championships 2023: Parul Chaudhary wins gold in 3000m steeplechase, Shaili jumps for silver

The Hindu  

Parul Chaudhary won her first major championship gold in 3000m steeplechase at the Asian Athletics Championships on Friday in Bangkok. READ | Tajinderpal Singh Toor defends Asian Championships shot put title, but limps out of competition Earlier in the day, shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor stamped his authority in the continental circuit by defending his title before limping out of …

Shaili looking to break her mentor Anju Bobby George’s national record this year
1 year, 6 months ago

Shaili looking to break her mentor Anju Bobby George’s national record this year

The Hindu  

She is just 19 and two years into the senior circuit, but Shaili Singh is already India’s number one woman long-jumper and is looking to break her mentor Anju Bobby George’s national record this year. She says I am in that range, and so I feel I can do it,” Shaili said after the women’s long jump qualifying round at …

Asian U20 Athletics Championship: Laxita, women’s 4x400m relay team win gold; Mehdi bags men’s 1500m bronze
1 year, 6 months ago

Asian U20 Athletics Championship: Laxita, women’s 4x400m relay team win gold; Mehdi bags men’s 1500m bronze

The Hindu  

India’s Laxita Vinod Sandila won gold in women’s 1500m at the Asian U20 Athletics Championship 2023 in Yecheon on Wednesday. The Indian women’s 4x400m relay team also stormed through the field taking the gold clocking 3:40.491 secs. In the men’s 1500m event, Mehdi Hasan bagged bronze with a time of 3:56.01 secs. Apart from Sunil’s heroics, Pooja clinched women’s high …

Why long jumper Shaili Singh continues to soar high
1 year, 7 months ago

Why long jumper Shaili Singh continues to soar high

Live Mint  

The first jump at the Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru earlier this month brought relief for Shaili Singh. “It helped my confidence, since the goal was to make the cut for the Asian Games in my very first jump,” Singh, 19, says. It was now time to chase 6.83 metres - the national record for women’s long jump held by …

Long jumper Shaili Singh bounces back from injury under Bobby and Anju’s guidance
1 year, 8 months ago

Long jumper Shaili Singh bounces back from injury under Bobby and Anju’s guidance

The Hindu  

Shaili Singh stepped a few centimetres over the take-off board on her second jump at the Indian Grand Prix in Bangalore on Sunday. “That probably would have been a national record,” says Anju Bobby George, holder of the national mark of 6.83m set at the Athens Olympics, watching alongside the jumping pit at the Kanteerava Stadium. In 2021, Anju’s belief …

Indian Grand Prix 4: Shaili Singh, Amlan Borgohain, DP Manu steal the show
1 year, 8 months ago

Indian Grand Prix 4: Shaili Singh, Amlan Borgohain, DP Manu steal the show

The Hindu  

Shaili Singh stole the show with a brilliant 6.76m leap in the women’s long jump event during the Indian Grand Prix-4 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Saturday. Shaili recorded the second best women’s long jump performance by an Indian, behind Anju Bobby George’s 6.83m national record set in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Amlan Borgohain took gold in the men’s …

Shaili Singh wins long jump gold; Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Jyothi Yarraji declared best Athletes at Open Nationals
2 years, 2 months ago

Shaili Singh wins long jump gold; Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Jyothi Yarraji declared best Athletes at Open Nationals

The Hindu  

Teenaged Shaili Singh showed yet another glimpse of her brimming potential by winning her first National Open athletics gold with a leap of 6.41m in the women’s long jump event at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Wednesday. On the final day of the competition, the 18-year-old, who made waves by securing the long jump silver at the World Athletics …

World Athletics Championship 2022: Murali Sreeshankar finishes seventh in men’s long jump final
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championship 2022: Murali Sreeshankar finishes seventh in men’s long jump final

The Hindu  

National record holder Murali Sreeshankar finished seventh with 7.96m in the men’s long jump final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Saturday. Performance-wise, it was the weakest long jump final at the Worlds in nearly 20 years and was packed with surprises with Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer, this year’s outdoor world leader with 8.45m, taking the bronze with just …

Dhanalakshmi surprises Safronova in 200m
2 years, 5 months ago

Dhanalakshmi surprises Safronova in 200m

The Hindu  

S. Dhanalakshmi surprised host Kazakhstan’s former Asian Games champion Olga Safronova as she won the women’s 200m gold in a personal best 22.89s at the Qosanov international athletics meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour event, in Almaty on Sunday. Meanwhile, Asian silver medallist Annu Rani took the women’s javelin throw gold with a good 62.29m effort while long jumper Ancy …

Shaili Singh, Priya Mohan to skip Khelo India Youth Games
2 years, 6 months ago

Shaili Singh, Priya Mohan to skip Khelo India Youth Games

The Hindu  

Long jumper Shaili Singh and quartermiler Priya Mohan, both under-20 World championship medallists, will skip the Khelo India Youth Games at Panchkula in Haryana as the dates of the athletics events fall very close to two major championships. But the dates fall between the Junior Federation Cup at Nandiad and the Inter-State Nationals in Chennai, both crucial events as the …

Want to Win Gold at Asian Games 2022, Says Junior Worlds Silver Medallist Shaili Singh
2 years, 9 months ago

Want to Win Gold at Asian Games 2022, Says Junior Worlds Silver Medallist Shaili Singh

News 18  

Long jumper Shaili Singh made a name for herself when she won a silver medal at the Junior World Championship 2021 in Nairobi and is trained by legendary long jumper Anju Bobby George and her husband Robert Bobby George at the Sports Authority of India facility in Bengaluru. Having won the silver medal at the Junior Worlds, Shaili now aims …

Indian Grand Prix 1 Athletics Meet: Amoj Jacob and Priya Mohan Share Limelight with Long Jumpers
2 years, 9 months ago

Indian Grand Prix 1 Athletics Meet: Amoj Jacob and Priya Mohan Share Limelight with Long Jumpers

News 18  

Quarter-milers Amoj Jacob and Priya Mohan shared the limelight with long jumpers Jeswin Aldrin and Ancy Sojan in the Indian Grand Prix 1 Athletics Meet at the Chandrasekharan Nair Police Stadium here on Sunday. Delhi’s Jacob broke into the lead by the halfway mark and beat back challenge from Noah Nirmal Tom of Kerala in a keenly-fought men’s 400m while …

Long Jumper M Sreeshankar Marks Return with 3rd Best Career Effort to Clinch Gold
2 years, 9 months ago

Long Jumper M Sreeshankar Marks Return with 3rd Best Career Effort to Clinch Gold

News 18  

National record holder long jumper M Sreeshankar marked his return to competition with his third best ever effort of 8.17m to record a dramatic victory in the inaugural National Open Jumps Competition here on Tuesday. Sreeshankar’s opening leap of 8.14m appeared good enough to seal the victory but Mohammad Anees Yahiya produced his personal best of 8.15m on his last …

Teenage Long Jumper Shaili Singh Juggling Between Study and Training, Targets Asian Games Gold
2 years, 10 months ago

Teenage Long Jumper Shaili Singh Juggling Between Study and Training, Targets Asian Games Gold

News 18  

Juggling between online school classes and intense training with an aim to clinch Asian Games gold has been tough for promising long jumper Shaili Singh but her belief in the mantra “impossible is nothing” is pushing her on. The 18-year-old, who came to the limelight after winning a silver in the World U-20 Championships last year, is dividing her day’s …

Silver medalist Shaili's mother sent her to train despite people advising her otherwise
3 years, 4 months ago

Silver medalist Shaili's mother sent her to train despite people advising her otherwise

The Hindu  

Shaili Singh's progress as an athlete has a lot to do with her coach Robert Bobby George but it was her "strong and determined" mother, who helped her daughter take first big leap when she sent her to Bengaluru for training, much against the 'advise' of well-wishers. READ | Shaili Singh wins long jump silver at World Athletics U20 Championships …

World U-20 Athletics Championships: Anju Bobby George says she would be 'very happy' to see Shaili Singh break her record
3 years, 4 months ago

World U-20 Athletics Championships: Anju Bobby George says she would be 'very happy' to see Shaili Singh break her record

Firstpost  

Long jumper Shaili Singh announced her arrival on the big stage by winning a silver in the under-20 world championships, missing out on a historic gold by a mere 1 cm with a 6.59m effort, though wind assisted, in the long jump final in Nairobi on Sunday. Small, frail and not even in top three— that was Shaili Singh when …

World U-20 Athletics Championships: Heartbreak for Shaili Singh as long jumper misses gold by 1 cm
3 years, 4 months ago

World U-20 Athletics Championships: Heartbreak for Shaili Singh as long jumper misses gold by 1 cm

Firstpost  

A protege of legendary long jumper Anju Bobby George, Shaili was leading at the end of the third round but the 18-year-old Swede overtook her in the fourth round by a mere 1cm which proved to be decisive in the end. Nairobi: Highly talented long jumper Shaili Singh on Sunday missed out on scripting history by a mere 1cm as …

Shaili Singh Wins Silver Medal in Long Jump at U20 World Athletics Championships
3 years, 4 months ago

Shaili Singh Wins Silver Medal in Long Jump at U20 World Athletics Championships

News 18  

Long jumper Shaili Singh won the silver medal at the U20 World Athletics Championships on Sunday with a best jump of 6.59m. This is India’s third medal at the Championships after Amit Khatri won silver in 10000m race walk and the Indian team bagged bronze in mixed 4x400m relay. The 17-year-old Shaili, coached by former jumper Bobby George and his …

World Athletics U20 Championships: Shaili Singh in Long Jump Final
3 years, 4 months ago

World Athletics U20 Championships: Shaili Singh in Long Jump Final

News 18  

India’s Shaili Singh has reached the final of the women’s long jump event in the World Athletics U20 Championships at Nairobi on Friday. Placed in Group B, Shaili began with a jump of 6.34m in her first attempt, which was just 0.01m behind the automatic qualification mark of 6.35m for the final. Maysa Lissandra Campos of Brazil came third and …

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