Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s athletes made history at the 2025 National Games in Uttarakhand, securing five medals in athletics—four Golds and one Silver—marking the state’s best-ever performance in a single edition. The stellar showing in track events accounted for nearly one-third of Odisha’s total 14 Gold medals at the Games. Sprint sensation Animesh Kujur emerged as the…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha athlete Bapi Hansda clinched an impressive silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the ongoing 5th Youth Asian Athletics Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He clocked 51.38 seconds, his personal best to finish ahead of Sri Lanka’s Kuda Liyanage Ayomal who timed 51.40 to bag bronze while Qatar’s Mahamat Abakar Abdrahman won the gold…
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated Odisha’s track and field athlete Bapi Hansda with a cash award of Rs 25 Lakhs for winning gold in the 400m hurdles at the recently concluded 18th National Youth Athletics Championship. He completed the 400m hurdles with a clock time of 51.90 sec. With this timing, Bapi is now…
