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Star sprinter Hima Das on Saturday suffered an injury scare after sustaining a muscle pull during the 100m heats at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships. However, the severity of her injury could not be ascertained.

The Indian men’s 4x400m relay team of Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv and Noah Nirmal Tom edged closer to a Tokyo Olympics berth with a fine performance at the 60th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships. The Indian quartet clocked 3:01.89s to win their heats at the National Institute of Sports in Patiala. The run is set to lift them up to the 13th spot on World Athletics’ Road to Olympic Games 2020 rankings. They were previously on 16th, courtesy a 3:02.59s run at a meet in Turkey back in 2019.

Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj came agonisingly close to achieving the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) in 100m backstroke at the 2021 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy, on Friday. He clocked 53.90 seconds to win the time-trial race but was 0.05 seconds short of the OQT set at 53.85 seconds for the Tokyo Olympics. The Bengaluru-based athlete is one of the two swimmers recommended by the Swimming Federation of India (SFI) for the Tokyo Games under the universality quota.

Indian shooters Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker won the silver medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup in Osijek, Croatia The second Indian team of Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal, meanwhile, lost their bronze medal match In the 10m air rifle mixed team event, the Indian team of Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan failed to qualify for the medal matches

Indian shooters Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat and Yashaswini Singh Deswal won the women’s air pistol team bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, The men’s air rifle team of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Deepak Kumar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar fell just short of the bronze medal as they lost 16-14 to Serbia. Meanwhile, the women’s air rifle team of Apurvi Chandela, Anjum Moudgil and Elavenil Valarivan finished 11th in the first qualification round and could not progress further. In the individual men’s skeet event, Gurjoat Khangura finished 56th in the qualifying round with a score of 115 and could not make the final.

Quota Update: Sushila Devi Likmabam has been awarded the continental quota in the women’s extra-lightweight (48kg) division.

The Indian women’s recurve team of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari made it through to the final of the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris. Meanwhile, the men’s recurve team of Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai - all Tokyo-bound archers - bowed out in the quarter-finals after a 5-4 loss to Germany. The men’s compound team of Abhishek Verma, Aman Saini and Rajat Chauhan exited in the quarter-finals after a loss to France.

Ramkumar Ramanathan went down to 32nd seed Marc Polmans in a thrilling match 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 9-11 in the third round of qualifiers at Wimbledon on Thursday.

Indian golfer Udayan Mane is in line to join compatriot Anirban Lahiri at the Tokyo Olympics next month. Udayan Mane was ranked outside the top-60 in the ‘Olympic Golf Rankings’ and was named in the reallocation reserve list. He will be the first replacement for Argentine golfer Emiliano Grillo - the No. 26 in the leaderboard.

ISSF World Cup India's Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished seventh in the men's final, while the country's women shooters failed to get past the qualifying round in the 10m air rifle event of the ISSF World Cup here on Thursday.

Archery World Cup Stage 3 he husband-wife duo Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das stormed into the final of the recurve mixed team event at the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris. They will meet The Netherlands’ Gabriela Schloesser and Sjef Van Den Berg in the Archery World Cup gold medal match. Deepika Kumari also reached semi in Individual event.

Quota no 70 Anirban Lahiri qualify for Olympic as he finish inside Olympic cut off ranking. Second Olympic for Anirban Lahiri

Indian wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia and Ravi Kumar were on Monday seeded in their respective categories. Both Bajrang and Deepak have been seeded second in the 65kg and 86kg category Ravi has been seeded fourth in the 57kg. Vinesh is the top seed in the 53kg category

National Record ...!!! Dutee Chand breaks her own national record in Women's 100m with 11.17sec. missed Tokyo Olympic Qualifications by 0.02 second ??

Quota no 69 Tajinderpal Singh throw 21.49m to create new National Record in Shot put And also Qualify For Tokyo Olympic. ??

AFC Asian Cup qualifier India drew with Afghanistan 1-1. Qualified for 3rd round which is scheduled in November...

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on Saturday conformed that star Indian lifter Mirabai Chanu has qualified for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in the women's 49kg category. In the men's 67 kg category, India's Jeremy Lalrinnunga is ranked 12th and lost the continental quota to Korea's Hak Myeongmok, but the 18-year-old still has a chance to qualify. The final list will be released on June 25.

Neeraj Chopra Wins Javelin Gold at Meeting Cidade de Lisboa as He Warms Up for Tokyo Olympics Neeraj Chopra's best throw was 83.18 metres that helped him win the gold medal at the Meeting Cidade de Lisboa, where others failed to cross the 80m mark

Poland Wrestling Ranking series Vinesh Phogat win Gold in 53kg after a superb win over K. Bereza (UKR) by 8-0 Vinesh will be Top seeding in Tokyo Olympic in 53kg Weight catagory . While in men Deepak Punia (86kg) and Bajrang Punia (65kg) will be seeded 2nd and Ravi Kumar (57kg) will be 4th seeded . India end with 1 Gold and 1 Silver ( Ravi in Freestyle) in Poland Open

Badminton champion Carolina Marin withdraws from Tokyo Olympics due to knee injury

Athletics : New National Record and Olympic Quota 55 Kamalpreet Kaur has thrown the discus to a distance of 65 metres.. new national record in women discuss throw and she has qualified for the Olympics as well. What a federation Cup it has been for India . 4 National Record , some brilliant performance and 2 Tokyo Olympic Quota as well...

Olympic Quota no 53 & 54 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sutirtha Mukherjee won Olympic Quota as they won their Respective Group at Asian Olympic Qualifications Tournament . Sathiyan beat S. Kamal and RAMEEZ Muhammad (PAK) to finish on top while Mukherjee beat Manika batra to won Olympic ticket ??

BWF World Tour Finals 2020 Srikanth too looses after winning the first set 15-21 21-16 21-18

Weightlifting India's Mirabai Chanu and Jeremy Lalrinnunga is also set to make the cut for Tokyo Olympics as per their ranking as Asian Championships gets cancelled.

Men's Light-heavy (75-81kg) SACHIN Kumar reaches light-heavy box-off final. Will fight Negmatulleov of Tajikistan for the fifth light-heavyweight spot in Tokyo.