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Chandigarh, India [15] 12 hours: 140.00 km Dhananjay Sharma 18 December 2022 Tuffman 12 Hour Stadium Run Gurugram, India [16] 24 hours: 222.24 km Binay Kumar Sah 9–10 March 2019 Tuffman 24 Hour Stadium Run Chandigarh, India 110 m hurdles: 13.48 (−0.9 m/s) Siddhanth Thingalaya: 10 June 2017 Altis Invitational Mesa, United States [17] 13.41 ...
The third recipient, Anju Bobby George, a long jumper, is India's first and only World Champion at the IAAF World Athletics Final. In 2003, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in World Athletics Championships, winning bronze. [10] She secured fifth place in the women's long jump in the 2004 Summer Olympics held at Athens. [11]
Lalita Babar was the best performing Indian athlete at the 2016 Summer Olympics, placing tenth in the women's steeplechase. [37] [38] India held the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships – its third time as host – and topped the medal table for the first time, beating China by twelve golds to eight.
For the 2016 Summer Olympics, India sent more than 100 athletes for the first time with 117 competitors. [79] [80] India won two medals including a silver and a bronze. [81] [82] Shuttler P. V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal and the youngest Indian woman medalist after she won a silver medal in badminton.
The Arjuna Award, officially known as the Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, [1] is the sports honour of Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Before the introduction of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1991–1992, the Arjuna award was the highest sporting honour of India.
Highest-ranked Scottish female player (since 2008) China: Wang Pin: 2506 2000-10 1974 India: Vaishali Rameshbabu: 2506 2024-08 2001 45 Hungary: Sofia Polgar: 2505 1998-07 1974 Poland: Monika Soćko: 2505 2008-04 1978 Highest-ranked Polish female player (1999–2001, since 2005, shared since 2022) Russia: Olga Girya: 2505 2017-09 1991 Russia Poland
Amlan Borgohain (born 25 April 1998) is an Indian track and field athlete who specializes in 100 metres and 200 metres. He holds the Indian national record for 100 metres and 200 metres. [ 1 ] He broke the existing national record for 200 metres in April 2022 [ 2 ] and became the fastest Indian by breaking the national record for 100 metres in ...
India has participated in the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. Their first ever medal was a Bronze medal won by Anju Bobby George in 2003 in Paris; in the Women's long jump discipline. [1] Neeraj Chopra is the second Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships. [2]