Long Jump

Indrajeet Patel sets 5000m mark

Special Correspondent WARANGAL: “Athletics is the cheapest sport,” said Indrajeet Patel of Uttar Pradesh. “There’s hardly any equipment to buy,” he explained after a display that was certainly not commonplace. Setting a...

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Athletics:USATF announces 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees

INDIANAPOLIS - Some of the greatest athletes of their generations, including track & field legends Joetta Clark Diggs, Andre Phillips, Randy Williams and Willie Steele, are joined by coach Dr. Ken Foreman as the 2009 inductees...

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Olympic ski jumping remains men-only zone

Record holder Lindsey Van and her fellow jumpers lost a long legal fight for admittance. If the Olympic Charter actually meant what it said, Lindsey Van might have made history in Vancouver. Last week, Van and her fellow female...

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Salim Sdiri breaks French long jump record

It's one of those stories that by any stretch of the imagination surely brings a warm glow along with a fair amount of admiration. Last week, French long jumper Salim Sdiri set a new national record when he leapt his way to...

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Valley prep athletes pick colleges

South baseball’s Hayes, West Vigo’s Wampler and North Central’s Higginbottom will compete at next level By Craig Pearson The Tribune-Star Two Vigo County baseball players will sign national letters-of-intent this week to play...

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James Lawton: Soviet conflict

In its own forlorn way it is a relic now of an unimaginable time, almost as much as the Berlin Wall whose fall signalled its collapse. But then if you happened to be in the upstate New York town of Lake Placid in 1980 you would...

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Germany remembers rules of Wall games

Filed Under: history, Long jump PARIS -- Twenty years on, Drechsler looks back with pride at German reunification, but the years preceding the end of the Cold War were filled with fear for athletes isolated in the East. While...

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60-member Indian squad for Asian Athletics

The Indian women's 4x400m relay team, which won the gold in Amman, is expected to win something even this time with the last edition runners Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose and K Chitra Soman in the squad for the 18th...

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Martinek leaves legacy throughout state

By KEITH SARGEANT • STAFF WRITER • November 7, 2009 PISCATAWAY — Ask Paul Reduzzi what stands out the most about Joe Martinek, and the former Hopatcong High School football coach is torn between three things. Is it the...

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Six meet marks set on second day

BANGALORE: Six new meet records were set on the second day of the State junior athletics championship at Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Wednesday. The record makers of the day were Dinesh Kumar (boys U-20 10km walk), Anitha...

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