Birendra Lakra was part of the bronze-winning Indian men's hockey team in Tokyo 2020. He shared a flat in Bhubaneswar with the victim and a girl.
A determined India fought back from 1-3 down to beat Germany 5-4 in the men's hockey bronze medal match at Tokyo Olympics. Catch highlights here
Buoyed by Olympic success, other sports emerge from the oversized shadow cast by cricket. Excellence demands sedulous, patient investment, where Haryana and Odisha show the way.
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India won a record seven medals at Tokyo 2020. The returns could have been much better if the shooters and archers performed true to their potential. Here are the 10 highlights from India's Tokyo Olympics campaign in 2021.
.jpg "PM Narendra Modi poses for a photo with India's Tokyo Paralympics athletes on Thursday during a breakfast hosted by him at his residence in New Delhi.")
With 19 medals in Tokyo including five gold, this was India's best-ever Paralympics show and finished 24th overall
Yoshimi Yamashita will control 22 men on a football pitch and will be the first to do so in Asia's biggest club competition, the AFC Champions League.
Suhas Yathiraj, 38, produced an entertaining performance before narrowly going down 21-15, 17-21, 15-21, to two-time world champion Mazur in a 62-minute summit clash
Para archer Harvinder Singh won India's 13th medal (a bronze) at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics on Friday. A PhD scholar of economics, Harvinder became India's...
Suhas Yathiraj, 38-year-old district magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida), will script history as the first-ever IAS officer to win a medal at the...
Suhas Yathiraj, Pramod Bhagat, and Krishna Nagar sailed into the men's singles finals of the badminton event in their respective classifications.Bhagat plays...
Narwal shot a total of 218.2, a Paralympic record, to claim gold while Adana, who had won the bronze in the 10m air pistol, added a silver to his kitty
Avani Lekhara is now first-ever Indian to win two individual medals at Paralympics/Olympics
The 19-year-old Lekhara, competing in her debut Games, finished third in 50m Rifle 3 Position
Praveen Kumar clinched the silver medal in the men's high jump T64 event of the Tokyo Paralympics taking India's haul to 11 in the ongoing Summer Games on...
This is India’s fourth medal in high jump after Nishad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu and Sharad Kumar
Prachi finished the race in 1:07.329s to settle for the last place
Rahul Jakhar, 35, was eliminated at the end of the seventh series in the finals after qualifying second with a score of 576
Aruna was scheduled to feature in the repechage round later in the evening after she lost to fourth-seeded Espinoza Carranza of Peru in the quarters
Earlier in the day, Aruna had stunned fifth seed Danijela Jovanovic of Serbia 29-9
Bhagat, the reigning world champion, outwitted fellow Indian Manoj Sarkar 21-10, 21-23, 21-9, in his men's singles group A class SL3 opener
With this event, India ended the day medal-less after touching the unprecedented double-digit mark on Tuesday with a haul of 10 so far, including two gold
Indian shooter Singhraj Adana, who took to the sport just four years ago, on Tuesday won a 2020 Paralympics bronze medal in the P1 men's 10m air pistol SH1...
Sharad Kumar, also a Sports Authority of India coach, had trained for three years in Ukraine from 2017 to prepare for the Paralympics.
Adhana shot a total of 216.8 to finish the event in the third place, while Manish Narwal, who topped the qualifications, came seventh
