Seema Punia

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Made in India sports equipment to make its presence felt during athletics events

Out of the six companies listed by the sport's governing body World Athletics to provide implements for shot put, discus and hammer throw events, three — Anand Track and Field Equipment (ATE), Bhalla International and Nelco — are based in India.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Dutee Chand, Annu Rani, MP Jabir qualify for Games through rankings, confirm World Athletics

Twelve individual athletes, including star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, booked automatic quota for the Olympics by breaching the qualification mark, while the trio of Dutee, Rani and Jabir made it to the Games through rankings. The men's 4x400m relay team qualified through top list.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Veteran discus thrower Seema Punia seals Olympic quota in Nationals; Hima Das set to miss Games

The 37-year-old Punia, who had won a silver in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and a bronze in the 2018 Asian Games, breached the Olympic qualifying mark of 63.50m.

TOPS core list of track and field athletes includes discus thrower Seema Punia, who last competed in 2018

Arpinder Singh's name was excluded from the TOPS core group after a performance review by the Mission Olympic Cell on Thursday. However, discus thrower Seema Punia, who last competed in 2018, is still a part of the core group, raising questions about the review process.

Sports Authority of India approves Rs 57 lakh financial proposals for TOPS athletes in five sports

In athletics middle-distance runner Jinson Johnson, discuss thrower Seema Punia and triple jumper Arpinder Singh were the beneficiaries.

Sushil Kumar, Swapna Barman dropped from TOPS; Arpinder Singh, Avinash Sable included in revised list

Sushil Kumar and India's first Asian Games gold medallist heptathlete Swapna Barman were on Thursday dropped from the latest Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS)

Silesian Boxing Championship: MC Mary Kom reaches final after beating Hanna Okhota; Seema Punia bows out

Sarita Devi defeated Czech Republic's Alena Czechy 5-0 on Wednesday night after going past Kazakhstan's Aizan Khojabekova in the opening round.

Seema Punia interview: If not for discus throw, I would have been in some remote village tending to cows

The road to glory in Tokyo will not be an easy one for Seema but the battle scarred veteran is not willing to give up. Her previous Olympic campaigns have been forgettable, failing to make it to the finals. And this is reason for the gutsy fighter to give her best shot at redemption.

Listen: Full script of Episode 32 of Spodcast where we discuss women's relay team's win, India men's hockey team's exit and more

Today, on Firstpost Spodcast, we talk about the 4x400m relay team's gold and silver and the India men's hockey team's exit from the Asian Games 2018.

Firstpost Spodcast Episode 32: Women's relay team bags gold, India crash out in hockey and more on our daily sports podcast

India's 4x400m women's and men's relay teams bag gold and silver, India crash out of men's hockey event— we discuss all this and more on Spodcast, Firspost's daily sports podcast.