Sports

On 4 February 2023, Anshul Jubli defeated Indonesia's Jeka Saragih in the final of the Road to UFC tournament. The lightweight fighter from Uttarakhand now becomes the second Indian fighter to compete in the UFC, the world's premier MMA promotion.

A look inside the making of the Rourkela’s Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Odisha, which hosted the Men’s Hockey World Cup and is the largest seated hockey stadium in the world.

Goa’s Katya Ida Coelho was the first and only Indian female windsurfer to compete in the 2014 Youth Olympics. Watch this video to see her journey of winning numerous accolades, and her attempt to bring windsurfing and iQFoiling to the limelight.

Lucknow’s Gaurav Khanna was like any other athlete when he sustained injuries during a match and later an accident, leaving him disabled. Instead of giving up sports, he turned to training para athletes.

Benoy Stephen explains how Ultimate Frisbee is helping children find new ways to dream, and how this unique self-refereed, mix-gendered sport could be the ‘ultimate’ solution to addressing a lack of education in underprivileged children.

Bengaluru resident Shreyas Karnad, who went from being 120 kg to 62 kg in three years, dedicates his accomplishment to clean eating habits and running. Here’s how he quit his job to turn into a coach with his initiative, Runners 360.

Franz Gastler founded Yuwa, an organisation that uses sports to fuel social development in Jharkhand. He shares how this has helped girls stay in school, study abroad, build careers and more.

Widely regarded as the country’s best in the sport, Jimmy George was the first Indian volleyball player to play professionally in Europe.

Footballer Tanvie Hans and fitness coach Swetha Subbiah have launched Sisters In Sweat, an organisation based in Bengaluru that encourages women to use various sports as a way to build endurance, reconnect, or find comfort.

Satinder Bajwa was a coach of the squash team for Harvard University. He returned to Chandigarh to start Khelshala to provide an all-rounded education to underprivileged kids.