Anjum Mudgil had qualified for the finals of her event in first place with a Commonwealth Games record for the qualifiers.
Anjum Mudgil had qualified for the finals of her event in first place with a Commonwealth Games record for the qualifiers.
The newly crowned Padma Shri might be on top of the world, but he is nowhere close to done.
In one of the happiest moments of his life, it seems a bit unkind to remind G Sathiyan about one of his lowest.
The Indian lifted a total of 317kg and was so ahead of the competition that he did not go for his final clean and jerk lift.
Rakesh Patra speaks to exclusively to Sportskeeda of his obstacle-filled journey.
Last week, 70-year-old Murlikant Petkar stood next to Indian president Ramnath Kovind and accepted an honour that was long overdue.
Manav Thakkar has become the first Indian table tennis player to reach the top of the Under-18 world rankings that came out on Thursday.
It is the first time he has achieved the top spot on the ranking charts.
Besides the allure of branding that comes with supporting a particular athlete, there is a lot more companies can do with funds mandated under CSR.
The former Indian captain talked about the importance of handling failures in the right spirit.
Rahul Dravid is undoubtedly one of the greatest cricketers ever to have played the game. But in his own eyes, he was “more a failure than a success.”
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth wins the French Open Superseries Final, defeating Kenta Nishimoto from Japan in straight sets, barely breaking a sweat in the 34-minute match.
The day three of the mega event, The Times of India Global Sports Business Summit (GSBS), was addressed by Dr. B Ashok, IAS, secretary department of Sports & Youth affairs, among other experts, bureaucrats and policy makers
Once termed lazy but talented, the 24-year-old first broke on the world stage back in 2014 and is now looking to rule it after a 2-year phase of disappointments
Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth clinched his maiden Denmark Open Super Series title on Sunday and the sports spectrum couldn’t heap enough praise
India’s junior para athletes put in an impressive showing at the Para Athletics Junior World Championships with two gold and three silver medals so far.
The first Indian to win a fencing gold at a world event, Bhavani wants to stay on course to live the Tokyo 2020 dream.
India's rising fencing star Bhavani Devi has achieved her career best ranking today, surging to an impressive No. 36, the highest for any Indian woman in her category.
Javelin thrower Sundar Singh Gurjar gave India its first medal at the 2017 IPC Para Athletics Championships in London.
Of the Rs 8,185 crore spent by companies as part of their corporate social responsibility activities in 2015-’16, only Rs 57 crore was reserved for sports.
Two-time Olympian and Asian Games Gold medallist MR Poovamma did the nation proud by winning a bronze at the women's 400m category of the Asian Grand Prix 2017 - 3rd leg in Taipei.
This project comprises 20 elite athletes and 14 from the previous term have been retained.
Don't be surprised by the steady emergence of successful new players. India's badminton strategy is paying off.
Sameer was only 15. He would get lonely. Every two months he would want to run back home to Dhar in Madhya Pradesh to be with his parents.
It is a little known fact that India’s first Olympic gold medal in an individual sport was actually won by one of India’s para athletes, Devendra Jhajharia.
Despite its great importance, cricket never gave India — the nation — any significant international triumph until well after independence
As a catalyst to the cause of empowering India’s sports talent, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has partnered with the GoSports Foundation to identify and support Indian para- athletes across multiple Paralympic disciplines.
Born with clubbed feet, Niranjan has defied the odds to pull off a Michael Phelps at the World Games in Czech Republic.
Devendra Jhajharia reacts to the lifting of ban on the Indian Paralympic Council
She recently defeated World No. 25 Nitchaon Jindapol who has been nearly unbeatable in the past few months.
Sandeep Sejwal has given Indian swimming a ray of hope for the future.
The Indian progressed through to final in the qualifying event.
At the top of sports coaching in India, behind the empty incantations of the guru-shishya parampara, there lie patches of silent darkness
Pranoy defeated Marc Zwiebler of Germany in straight games 21-18 21-15 in the final in Basel on Sunday
Kidambi Srikanth speaks exclusively to Sportskeeda about his journey, the PBL and the Olympics
Race walking is gradually gaining ground in India and Manish Rawat, one of the nine walkers to have already crossed the Olympics qualification standard, has his eyes trained on a medal at the Rio Games.
Swapna Barman is the recipient of the Rs.1.5 Lakh Annual Sports Scholarship from Great Sports Infra (GSI), South Asia’s leading provider of turnkey solutions for sports infrastructure.
Dravids athlete mentorship program will work with the Aditya Birla Group to nurture sporting talent in the country
This year’s edition of the GoSports Foundation Conclave saw India’s top coaches, sports science experts, and sports administrators come together to discuss the future of Indian sport.
India has produced several world class shooters, and there is no dearth of young talent in the sport.
Chikka grew up next to a golf course near Bangalore, swinging a club made from a branch. Today, he’s a champion.
Former National badminton champion Aparna Popat stressed the need for parents of young sportspersons to communicate effectively with children and not pressure them into setting unrealistic targets.
When Dipa Karmakar launches into her soaring vault at the world championships, chances are that none of her rivals will be aware that the foundations of the skill were built on makeshift apparatus made by stacking several crash mats on top of each other.
On the occasion of National Sports Day, city-based sports NGO, GoSports Foundation announced the launch of its Athletes’ Education Programme.
Nandan Kamath traded his dream of being a professional cricketer for a life in law, and since then, there has been no looking back for him.
The Athlete Mentorship Programme, aimed to engage athletes from Olympic, Paralympic and Special Olympic disciplines, is being executed by Dravid in association with the GoSports Foundation.
India’s chief national coach Pullela Gopi Chand believes that with the launch of the GoSports Foundation Badminton Development Programme at his Academy here on Monday, the sport and the performers will get a new direction and hope as they chart out their careers in the big league.
Indian badminton coach Pullela Gopichand has joined former cricket stalwart Rahul Dravid and ace rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra on the advisory board of non-profit GoSports Foundation.
After a two day development program for the country's most elite young shooters on the 6th and 7th October 2014, at SAI, Bangalore, India hosted by GoSports Foundation in association with the Abhinav Bindra Foundation.
When shooter Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat won a gold this summer in Glasgow, few knew that behind her success was a private sports body bent on ensuring India's presence on the winning podium.
Abhinav Bindra today announced the launch of the Abhinav Bindra Shooting Scholarship Programme.
Swimmer Supriya Mondal qualified for the 2014 Youth Olympics, winning gold at the 1st Dubai International Aquatic Championships.
Next leader to open up in the series ‘Leaders in Sports’ is Mr. Nandan Kamath.
GoSports Foundation today announced the list of athletes who will be supported as part of their sports scholarship programmes for 2014.
Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Friday announced a partnership with GoSports Foundation to support young Indian shooters in the country.
In 2009, a diminutive 12-year-old boy from Bengal took part in his first Junior National Championships.
From Prakash Padukone and Pullela Gopichand to Saina Nehwal, P Kashyap and PV Sindhu –you could say Indian badminton has had its share of world class players, especially in the last few years.
At 17, Indore boy Rohit Imoliya is making quite a splash in the pool with 13 records in national championships.
The Pullela Gopichand Academy is playing host to the week-long intermediate level coach training programme conducted by the Badminton Association of India, in partnership with GoSports Foundation.
In many ways, 2012 was a turning point for Indian badminton.
In our efforts to promote volunteerism we have been writing about voluntary initiatives by individuals such as Birds of Hope and Jazbaa.
Bengaluru-based Go Sports Foundation offers PACE scholarships for Indian athletes from Olympic disciplines. Sharath Gaykwad, one of the recipients, is India's first Paralympic swimmer to make it to the qualifying rounds
Indian athletes have found new patrons. Private foundations are helping youngsters aim at victory in the 2012 Olympics, say Paran Balakrishnan and V. Kumara Swamy
Seven years ago, the fledgling Mittal Champions Trust (MCT) was presented with an opportunity to fund the training of a shooter named Abhinav Bindra.
GoSports foundation is one of India’s rare few non-profit organisations supporting young athletes. Born of passionate individuals, this foundation has been supporting some of the Indian athletes going to the 2012 Olympics.
Three 11th Grade students of Greenwood High – Swapneel Chouhan, Siddharth Kumar and Vaibhav Ojha have come forward to organize a marathon – Run in the Sun.
With Indian shooters consistently winning medals across different categories at the international stage, shooting sports present the best opportunity for Olympic medals for India in the future.