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Vikas Gowda quits discuss throw, turns attention to business studies
May 31, 2018 7:08 pm
Vikas Gowda had spoken at length about his love for numbers when he was regularly teaching middle school children for up to 15 hours a week.
Vikas Gowda, India's only Commonwealth Games gold medallist discus thrower, retires
May 30, 2018 5:51 pm
Vikas Gowda on Wednesday retired after competing at the highest level for more than 15 years, during which he became the first and only Indian male to win Commonwealth Games medals in the discipline.
TOPS athletes get tripped up in red tape
August 20, 2015 12:18 pm
Vikas Gowda's payment for previous quarter for training in USA still pending. Amounts to approx Rs 40 lakh. Ministry says it'll be cleared soon.
Arjun, next big thing in discus tries his hand at shot put
August 14, 2015 12:53 pm
Yuri Minkov, who had made Arjun perform a standing throw which was measured at 18.36 metres, believed the transition would be easy.
Vikas Gowda wins bronze in Shanghai IAAF Diamond League
May 17, 2015 6:34 pm
The 31-year-old Gowda hurled the disc to a distance of 63.90m, which he achieved in his fifth and penultimate attempt.
Purse to Podiums: How 'TOPS' is affecting Indian athletes
May 15, 2015 11:05 am
A look at athletics, a discipline in which India has two near-misses in Olympics but no medals.
The big show
August 01, 2014 10:35 am
6’9” Vikas Gowda wins India’s first athletics medal — a gold in discus— at Glasgow.
Gowda eyes CWG, Asiad high after Doha medal
May 20, 2014 3:58 am
Gowda said that Indian athletics needs to improve faster in order to catch up with the world’s best.
In season opener in Doha, Vikas Gowda’s discus shines like a diamond
May 10, 2014 5:24 pm
The Diamond League is a series which will have fourteen meetings and the top athletes compete in it.
Do svidaniya: Yelena's golden goodbye
August 14, 2013 2:00 am
Against odds and in her last professional jump,Isinbayeva wraps up sparkling career by winning her first global title in five years.
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