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En route to their win, both the race walkers also breached the qualifying standards for the Asian Games set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI). Uttar Pradesh's Ram Baboo won the men's 35km race walk after clocking two hours, 31 minutes, and 36 seconds, improving his previous national record of 2:36.34, set at the National Games in Gandhinagar last year.

Jyothi Yarraji completed her race in 8.13s -- 0.03s faster than her previous record. Yarraji, who also holds the national record in the outdoor women's 100m hurdles event, had topped the qualification on Saturday with a timing of 8.16s. In the final, however, Japan's Masumi Aoki, who barely made it to the final after clocking 8.51s to finish eighth in the qualification, stormed ahead to claim the gold in 8.01s. Chen Jiamin of China came third in 8.15s.

Last year, the World Athletics Council imposed sanctions against the Member Federations of Russia and Belarus as a consequence of the invasion of Ukraine and said that Russian athletes, who have received ANA status for 2022, are excluded from World Athletics Series events for the foreseeable future.

Usha said this was noticed at the 30 acre facility of her school which has several girls who are inmates. "We have seen some construction that has begun in our property that was given to us for the school. I have lodged a complaint with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. We have to be very careful as there are girls and hence safety and security are a must," said Usha.

Legendary athlete PT Usha was on Saturday officially elected as the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) during the governing body's polls. Usha -- a multiple Asian Games gold medallist -- was declared elected unopposed for the top post. The polls were held under the supervision of Supreme Court-appointed retired SC judge L Nageswara Rao.

With his first throw, the 22-year-old broke the meet record set at 79.04m by Ravinder Singh Khaira in Lucknow in 2016. He remained the only athlete to breach the 80m mark on Tuesday, adding the National Open title to the top prize he won in the National Inter-State Championships in Chennai in June this year.

The AIU, which is the independent body created by World Athletics that manages all integrity issues -- including doping and age fraud, had provisionally suspended Kamalpreet in May this year for testing positive for the banned substance stanozolol, an anabolic steroid that is on the list of banned substances as per the World Athletics.

As expected, India experienced a medal rush in boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, badminton and table tennis in CWG. However, the one field which helped shoot up the country's medal tally was athletics. At Gold Coast 2018, India could only manage three medals in the discipline. But this time around, India's athletes set new benchmark, winning eight medals, including one gold, four silver and three bronze, which augurs well for next year's Asian Games and the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

With his best throw of 88.13m, Neeraj won silver and ended India's 19-year-long wait for a medal at the World Athletics Championships. This was India's second medal at the World Championships and the first podium finish since Anju Bobby George won a bronze medal in long jump at Paris in 2003. "I'm feeling really great today to have won a silver medal for the country.

The Haryana lad is being projected as a sure shot gold medal prospect for India in the Commonwealth Game in Birmingham as well, and why not? Chopra (24) is in red-hot form. The star athlete set a national record of 89.94m enroute a silver medal at the Stockholm Diamond League earlier this year, and now he has won silver at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.