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The Hindu
25-05-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Sneha Kolleri
Quartermiler Sneha Kolleri has been forced out of the Indian team for this week's Asian Athletics Championships in South Korea after testing positive for dope. 'I came to know that she is not coming to Korea because she failed a dope test,' National chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair told The Hindu from Gumi, the Asian Championships venue, on Sunday. No details regarding the prohibited substance or when the test was taken were available. Suffered an injury: Sneha When contacted, Sneha denied she had failed a dope test. 'I suffered an ankle twist and am unable to run,' said the 26-year-old from Thiruvananthapuram. National camper Sneha was part of the Indian mixed relay team at the World Relays in China two weeks ago, her first major international event, and had been named for the Asian Championships team in both the women's and mixed relays. The Kerala athlete was the fourth fastest Indian 400m runner this year — behind Aishwarya Mishra, Rupal Chaudhray and Vithya Ramraj — and had claimed the bronze in last month's Federation Nationals in Kochi clocking a personal best 53.00s which also put her eighth in this year's Asian list. Till last year, her personal best was 53.51. She had also clocked a 200m personal best (23.59) in the Indian Grand Prix in Thiruvananthapuram on May 17. Sandramol also misses out It is learnt that another quartermiler, Sandramol Sabu, could not travel to South Korea as she had suffered a knee injury. That could further weaken the mile relay team. Strangely Aishwarya Mishra, the country's fastest quartermiler this year — 51.12 while winning the National Games gold in Dehradun in February — and last year's fastest 400m runner Kiran Pahal (50.92s) skipped the Federation Nationals which was the Athletics Federation of India's qualification event for the Gumi Asians.
The Hindu
10-05-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Animesh, David clinch gold medals in UAE Athletics GP
National record-holder Animesh Kujur won the 200m comfortably while P. David Solomon took the men's long jump title in the UAE Athletics Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level event, in Dubai on Friday. Animesh's time, 20.45s, is the fastest by an Indian in an international meet while long jumper David, the recent Federation Nationals champion, had a best of 7.78m. India also won the men's 4x100m relay clocking 38.76s, but there was a bit of a disappointment in the 100m with National record-holder Gurindervir Singh (10.41s) and Manikanta Hoblidhar (10.52) finishing eighth and 12th. Gurvinder holds the national record with 10.20s while Manikanta is the third fastest in India's all-time list with 10.22. Asian silver medallist Shaili Singh (6.43m) took the women's long jump silver while Asian Games silver medallist Ancy Sojan (6.33) won the bronze. Select results (events which feature Indians): Men:100m (placings after finals 1 & 2): 1. Ali Al Balooshi (Oma) 10.19s, 8. Gurindervir Singh (Ind) 10.41, 10. T.A. Tamilarasu (Ind) 10.44, 12. Manikanta Hoblidhar (Ind) 10.52; 200m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Ind) 20.45s, 5. Amlan Borgohain (Ind) 21.08; 400m (finals 1 & 2 combined): 1. Suleiman Abdirahman (UAE) 45.66s, 2. Mohamed Sinan (Ind) 46.67, 14. Juswin George Varghese (Ind) 52.20; long jump: 1. David Solomon (Ind) 7.78m; 4x100m relay: 1. India (38.76s), 3. India (39.30). Women: 400m (placings after finals 1 & 2): 1. Aminat Kamarudeen (UAE) 53.44s, 12. Rachel Elizabeth Sunil (Ind) 1:08.48, 3. Shriya Sarin (Ind) 1:08.66; long jump: 1. Esraa Owis (Egy) 6.67m, 2. Shaili Singh (Ind) 6.44, 3. Ancy Sojan (Ind) 6.33, 4. Moumita Mondal (Ind) 6.32, 7. Deepanshi Singh & Kusuma Ravada (both Ind) 6.03. triple jump: 1. Andreea Talos (Rou) 13.33m, 3. Poorva Sawant (Ind) 13.09, 5. Niharika Vashisht (Ind) 13.05; hammer: 1. Bianca Ghelber (Rou) 72.18m, 6 Harshita Sehrawat (Ind) 61.39.
The Hindu
25-04-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Manikanta left out of 100m despite making the cut for Asian athletics championships
Despite achieving the qualification standard and finishing third in the National Federation Athletics Championships which concluded here on Thursday, sprinter Manikanta Hoblidhar does not find a place in the 100m in the Indian team for next month's Asian Championships in Gumi, South Korea. Karnataka's Manikanta had broken the 100m meet record in the semifinal, clocking 10.25s which is also the qualification standard set by the Athletics Federation of India for the Asians but the selectors were not impressed. 'Had he finished first or second, he would have been considered,' explained National chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair after the team was announced here on Friday. 'We have also not included Gurindervir Singh who clocked 10.20s (breaking the national record) in the recent Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru because he finished last in the Federation Nationals (with 11.21).' Incidentally, Mankanta had clocked 10.22s in that Bengaluru meet. Neeraj not in the fray World champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who will be in action in the Neeraj Chopra Classic in Bengaluru on May 24, will not be going for the Asian Championships which begin on May 27. Asian and Asian Games champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor is one of the prominent names missing in the list. The former Asian record-holder (personal best 21.77m, 2023), who has been struggling with injuries the last couple of years, suffered his first loss in nearly eight years finishing second in the Federation Nationals here on Thursday with 18.77m (AFI's Asian qualification standard: 19.1m). While announcing the team for the Asians, AFI president Bahadur Singh Sagoo revealed that the federation will not include athletes who qualify for this September's Tokyo World Championships through the world rankings route at the last minute, after the withdrawal of athletes above them in the world ranking list. But the selectors will have the final say on the matter. The Indian team: Men: 200m: Animesh Kujur; 800m: Anu Kumar, Krishan Kumar; 1500m: Yoonus Shah; 3000m steeplechase: Avinash Sable; 5000m: Gulveer Singh, Abhishek Pal; 10,000m: Gulveer Singh, Sawan Barwal; triple jump: Praveen Chithravel, Abdulla Aboobacker; high jump: Sarvesh Kushare; shot put: Samardeep Singh Singh; javelin throw: Sachin Yadav, Yashvir Singh; decathlon: Tejaswin Shankar; 20km race walk: Servin Sebastian, Amit; 4x100m relay: Pranav Pramod Gurav, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar, Amlan Borgohain, S. Tamilarasu, G. Ragul Kumar, Gurindervir Singh; 4x400m relay: T.K. Vishal, Jay Kumar, T.S. Manu, Rince Joseph, Dharamveer Chaudhary, Tushar Manna, Santosh Kumar, Mohit Kumar. Women: 200m: Nithya Gandhe; 400m: Rupal Chaudhary, Vithya Ramraj; 800m: Twinkle Chaudhary, Pooja; 1500m: Lili Das, Pooja; 3000m steeplechase: Parul Chaudhary, Ankita; 5000m: Sanjivani Jadhav, Parul Chaudhary; 10000m: Sanjivani Jadhav, Seema; 100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji; 400m hurdles: Vithya Ramraj, R. Anu; long jump: Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan; high jump: Pooja; discus throw: Seema; javelin throw: Annu Rani; heptathlon: Agasara Nandini; 4x100m relay: Nithya Gandhe, Abhinaya Rajarajan, S.S. Sneha, Srabani Nanda, A.T. Daneshwari, V Sudeeksha; 4x400m relay: Rupal, K. Sneha, Subha Venkatesan, Jisna Mathew, Kunja Rajitha, Sandramol Sabu.
