Sports

Hamida Banu was a female wrestler who never shied away from challenging her male counterparts to duels. Here’s how she carved a space for herself in the male-dominated wrestling scene, winning over 320 matches in her career.

Despite three severe injuries to the same knee and a bout of COVID-19, Delhi-based boxer Rohit Tokas showed incredible resilience and mental fortitude to win the bronze medal in the men’s 67 kg category at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Thanks to the Anantapur Sports Academy (ASA), lakhs of children in rural Andhra Pradesh have been able to use sports as a means to inculcate holistic development, increase awareness on gender inequalities, and eventually pursue higher education and livelihood.

Haryana’s 95-year-old Bhagwani Devi Dagar recently bagged three gold medals in the 9th World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships held in Torun, Poland after her grandsons recognised her potential in sports and trained her.

From losing her mother despite donating 74% of her liver at 19 to becoming a world record-holding athlete, entrepreneur, and student at The Wharton School of Business, Ankita Shrivastava has overcome a great deal.

Celebrity fitness trainer Jeeth Sanghavi shares how she fought sexism in her male-dominated work arena to make a name for herself as a boxer.

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.