NHPC Limited has announced its sports scholarship scheme for budding sportspersons across 16 disciplines, including football, hockey, boxing, archery, athletics, cricket, swimming, wrestling, badminton, chess and para sports.
Qin Haiyang claimed the men's 100-meter breaststroke title on Monday, securing China's first swimming gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
Karnataka's swimmers made a powerful statement on the opening day of the 38th National Games 2025 here on Wednesday, clinching five gold medals and setting a new meet record at the Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee Swimming Complex.
Nithik Nathella, Danush Suresh, B Benedicton Rohit, and Adhithya Dinesh created a National Meet Record for Tamil Nadu by clocking 3:45.66 in the Men’s 4 x 100m Medley relay on third day of the 77th Senior National Aquatic Championships 2024.
Emotions ran high at the Paris La Defense Arena as local hero Leon Marchand clinched France's first Olympic swimming gold medal since the London 2012 Games.
The 26-year-old Rujuta who had represented Shivaji University in the Khelo India University Games 2021, also added that the athletes now won't have to make any kind of sacrifices in their training programme these days as various universities and state bodies have been sponsoring them to perform well at this stage.
Odisha will provide support and sponsor SFI and the Federation in conjunction with Odisha State Swimming Association (OSSA) will provide their technical expertise. The partnership will be valid for one year extendable to five years, under mutually agreed terms, said an official of DSYS.
Indian swimmers, particularly Nataraj and Prakash, will get one last chance to crack the 'A' qualification time next week in Rome.
Over the last few weeks, Goa's popular beaches had seen a steady trickle of visitors since the gradual relaxation in the lockdown.
The Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) subsequently said that the 1500m freestyle world record-holder is "still serving (his) suspension.
