Nitin Sharma

On Friday, Bisla won the semi-final to become the fourth Indian woman wrestler to seal a quota for the Tokyo Olympics. A few hours later, she went on to earn gold in the 50kg event of the Olympic qualification tournament.

Sumit Malik is the fourth Indian male wrestler, after Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia and Ravi Dahiya, to confirm an Olympic spot.

Officials said that each mini Covid care centre will be a 50-bed facility and will operate initially for a period of one month. Work at the Sector 8 Mini Sports Complex is in the final stages, they added. Once ready, both the Covid care centres will provide basic hospital care to patients.

With the twins Amar Singh Purewal and Arjun Singh Purewal representing two different clubs in the final--while Arjun is captaining Consett FC, Amar plays for Hebburn Town-- it will be an emotional moment for the family.

A contemporary of triple Olympics gold medallist late Balbir Singh Senior, Vohra was ever present on the Chandigarh hockey scene since the 1950s first as a player and later as a hockey administrator.

Vohra was behind the formation of Chandigarh Olympic Association in the 1970s.

Harpreet Brar needed a fourth trial to break into the IPL in 2018. Playing just his fourth IPL match, the spinner steps up to claim the wickets of Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers.

Born on May 2, 1932 at Sansarpur, Punjab, Balbir Singh Junior started playing hockey at the age of six years seeing his elder brothers play the sport in the hockey ground at the village.

An injury ended her father’s wrestling career. Now Anshu Malik overcame an injury scare of her own to book an Olympic spot.

Suyash Mehta, who became the first full-time Indian-origin referee to officiate in NBA League for the 2020-2021 season in December last year, has been part of the NBA referee roster since then and has officiated in more than 20 games this season.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of External Affairs are in touch with the players to bring them back.

Soon after they were evacuated, Sonia called her father Mohan and assured him she was safe. The next day, she ensured that her morale was intact despite the trauma. She first shot a score of 642 to emerge second in the ranking-round on Sunday.

In Patiala last Saturday, javelin-thrower Sumit Antil, a 2019 World Para Championship silver medallist, broke compatriot Sandeep Chaudhary's world record in the javelin's F44 and F64 categories — para track-and-field events have classifications based on the physical disabilities of athletes.

The 22-member team is in Jaipur for the BCCI Women's Senior One Day Tournaments and Gupta tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week.

The Bill was withdrawn after Sports Minister Sandeep Singh moved a resolution in the House, saying the state government has decided to take a “relook” at it on the Centre’s advice.

In Spain, Kaushik scored wins over the likes of world number four Kazakh Safiullin Zakir and Nikolai Terteryan of Denmark in the final.

While Punjab had hosted the national games in 2011, this will be for the first time that Haryana will play host to a multi-game event

Tiger Woods was taken to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was operated upon by a team of doctors under Dr. Anish Mahajan, who traces his roots to Jalgaon in Maharashtra.

23-year-old Deepak, who got a silver medal at the 2019 Asian Championships in the 49kg category before moving up to 52 kg, showed his dominance in the opening round with straight and cross punches.

During the lockdown last year, 29-year-old archer Harvinder Singh would train on his farm at Ajitnagar village in Kaithal district, Haryana, to keep him match fit. Singh, who won India’s first individual gold in archery in 2018 Asian Para Games, would suffer from dengue fever months later before joining the national camp at Sonepat in […]

Under the new amendments of Haryana Sports Policy, the state government had decided to give Group B jobs to Paralympic and para Asian Games gold medal winners.

G Sathiyan beat veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal to win his first national title. With a new rubber, an improved forehand, serve and fitness-level, he’s now looking to secure an Olympic berth.

Sharath Kamal, who is a Chennai native, will be competing in the championship ahead of 4 international events including Olympics qualifiers in Doha

India’s top paddler Manika Batra returned to competitive table tennis for the first time since the pandemic. A win at the national championships gives her a boost, as she prepares to compete for a Tokyo Olympics quota.