After taking the 5000m gold comfortably in the morning, Madhya Pradesh’s Ekta Pradeep Dey broke the women’s 3000m steeple chase record by a massive 19 seconds on the concluding evening of the 22nd National Federation Cup junior athletics championships in Lucknow on Sunday. Meanwhile, UP’s Sharuk Khan broke his own meet record in the men’s 3000m steeple chase. 3000M steeple …
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 …
