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Indian Asian Games medallist Powell dies aged 82

  • Athletics

Indian sprinter Kenneth Powell has died at the age of 82 in Bengaluru due to an age-related illness.

Indian athletics grew in stature back in the 1960s because of the efforts of athletes like Kenny Powell

titles in sprint events in the National Open Championships and National Inter-State Championships," Athletics

National School Games in Calcutta when he finished third before turning heads at the National Inter-State Athletics

Karnataka in the National Handball Championships in 1975.He also won 100m silver at the 1981 Asian Masters Athletics


Act fast or weightlifters will quit, says Olympian Tchatchet as IWF plans for Refugee Team

  • Weightlifting

Asylum seekers and refugees from the world of weightlifting could soon have their own team set up by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

Athletics and judo have refugee teams and I have recommended to our Board that we do the same."

events - it would have nothing to do with the Olympic games as the IOC has its own refugee team".The athletics

refugee team is run by a separate charitable foundation to which World Athletics makes a small contribution.Sperl


Ross hit with three-year ban by Athletics Integrity Unit for whereabouts failures

  • Athletics

American sprinter Randolph Ross has been hit with a three-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU

process for the third potential whereabouts failure, which constituted a tampering violation under World Athletics

anti-doping rules.Ross was handed a provisional suspension on the eve of the World Athletics Championships




Philip Barker: War-torn Finland's 1939 Olympic Christmas card

  • Inside the Blogs

To mark the season of goodwill before the advent of e-cards, Olympic organisers used to send Christmas cards by the thousand.

Games were finally handed back.Publicity material for the Games represented Finland's rich heritage in athletics

tower and the capacity was increased to over 60,000.Sigfrid Edström, the leader of what is now World Athletics

, visited the Finnish Athletics Championships.This had given him the opportunity to inspect the track


Former judge and Olympic sprinter Fraser set to be next Hockey Canada chair

  • Ice Hockey

Retired judge and one-time Olympic sprinter Hugh Fraser is poised to lead embattled Hockey Canada's next Board of Directors, after being the only nominee put forward for chair.

courts for three decades and has a background as an arbitrator for various sporting bodies, including Athletics

Fraser, O.C., the lead commissioner of Athletics Canada and 1976 Olympian was appointed to the Order

pic.twitter.com/8VmdellFsB— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) December 30, 2021Hockey Canada was plunged



Grøvdal and Ingebrigtsen defend titles at European Cross Country Championships

  • Athletics

As expected, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal and Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway defended their titles at the European Cross Country Championships in Turin.

[during the cross country season] because I was preparing for this one here," Grøvdal told European Athletics

🙌#Piemonte2022(@Norsk_Friidrett) pic.twitter.com/TcbhSZZIn4— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) December



Reath and O'Keefe aiming to compete in home city at Victoria 2026 as Ballarat prepares for investment

  • Victoria 2026

Young athletes from Ballarat Yual Reath and Lachlan O'Keefe have set their sights on competing in their city at the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Ballarat is one of the five sub-sites of the Games and is set to stage events in athletics and Para athletics

with the former winning the national title this year before claiming a silver medal at the Oceania Athletics

currently holds a personal best of 2.15m and finished eighth in the high jump final of the Under-20 World Athletics


End date on Russia's CAS sanctions nears - perhaps. And with what results?

  • The Big Read

How to describe the effect of the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its orchestrated doping programme and subsequent attempts to cover it up?

Speaking after the World Athletics Council meeting in Rome on November 30, Rune Andersen - chair of the

Taskforce working on the reinstatement of the Russian Athletics Federation, which was banned in November

Andersen said RUSADA is now judged by WADA to be working well at an operative level during the World Athletics

The RusAF situation is a matter for World Athletics."



World Para Sport athletics experts train officials for Santiago 2023

  • Santiago 2023

World Para Sport athletics experts are involved in training 60 national technical officials in the build-up

If successful the officials will obtain the National Technical Official category for Para athletics which

Henríquez, seeking to become International Technical Officials - the highest certification for Para athletics

competitions.World Para Sport athletics experts are instructing 60 officials seeking to become qualified

Parapan American Games ©Santiago 2023The courses are being given by expert lecturers from World Para Athletics

sports management and the federation services area.Officials are due to be put to the test at the Para Athletics