IIT Kanpur at 2nd place in Inter IIT Tech meet 14.0, wins silver medal after 6 years
IIT Kanpur was represented by the Science and Technology Council, Students’ Gymkhana, whose remarkable performance brought pride to the entire institute.
IIT Kanpur was represented by the Science and Technology Council, Students’ Gymkhana, whose remarkable performance brought pride to the entire institute.
This is Gurpreet’s second individual medal in World Championships, the first one also a silver won back in 2018 at Changwon in the 25m Standard Pistol event. Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France won the bronze.
Chanu struggled in the snatch, failing twice at 87kg, but regained her rhythm in the clean and jerk, successfully executing all three attempts.
The 22-year-old Anish, who shot 35 in the finals, was edged to the gold by China’s Su Lianbofan, who shot 36 and went on to create new World Junior and Asian Championships Junior Records.
At the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships, Indian Army athletes excel.
The 20-year-old junior 3P national champion shot 626.7 after 60 shots, narrowly missing out on gold—won by Sweden’s Jesper Johansson—by just 0.3 points. Griffin Lake of the USA claimed the bronze with a score of 624.6.
“The goal that we were working towards and what we had planned to achieve is unfinished, that something might always remain missing, and that things might never be the same again,” she wrote.
Nadeem made the capacity crowd at the Stade de France gasp with awe with a massive throw of 92.97m, the sixth best in history that also bettered the existing Olympic record of 90.57m set by Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
After taking the silver medal in the men’s javelin throw at the Paris Olympics, finishing behind Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who won the gold medal
The men’s relay quartet of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, T Santosh Kumar, Mijo Chacko Kurian and Arokia Rajiv clocked 3:05.76 amidst heavy rains in Bangkok to finish behind the Sri Lanka team, which stopped the clock at 3:04.48.
