Sports / Athletics

Coe to head IAAF Evaluation Commission for 2019 Worlds 08 Oct 2014 - 03:21 am

The Khalifa International Stadium, home to the 2006 Asian Games and the centre piece of Doha’s Aspire Zone, is currently in the process...

Qatar relish ‘perfect’ show from athletes at Asiad 04 Oct 2014 - 12:07 am

Chef-de-Mission Khalil Al Jabir speaks during an interview in which he praised Qatar’s athletes for their best-ever display at the Asian Games in...

China hit by doping hammer blow in Incheon 04 Oct 2014 - 12:05 am

INCHEON: A Chinese hammer champion was stripped of her Asian Games gold medal for doping yesterday in a case that punctured the euphoria...

Ogunode smashes 200m record 02 Oct 2014 - 01:54 am

Incheon: After a record-breaking victory in the 100m race on Sunday, Femi Ogunode had vowed to also bag the 200m Asian Games gold...

DQs give Hairane unexpected bronze as Bala misses out 02 Oct 2014 - 01:52 am

Qatar’s Jamal Hairane (left) celebrates while his team-mate Musaab Abdelrahman Bala lies on the track after the final of the men’s 800m athletics...

Dheeb adds medal to Qatar tally with discus bronze 01 Oct 2014 - 10:20 am

Gold medallist Ehsan Hadadi (centre) of Iran is flanked by silver medallist Govda Vikas Gowda Shive (left) of India and bornze medalist Mohammed...

Doping cases, protests overshadow Games 01 Oct 2014 - 10:17 am

Malaysia’s gold medalist Tai Cheau Xuen Tai celebrates during the medal ceremony of the wushu nanquan at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon,...

Party time for China as Xie delivers 110m hurdles gold 01 Oct 2014 - 10:13 am

INCHEON: China’s athletes delivered a hat-trick of Asian Games golds on the eve of the country’s national day yesterday, with Xie Wenjun leading...

Barshim bags gold 30 Sep 2014 - 02:59 am

Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim, gold medal winner in the men’s high jump, poses for a picture with Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary-General Sheikh Saoud bin...

Super Barshim leaps to gold 30 Sep 2014 - 12:04 am

Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim, gold medallist in the men’s high jump event of the Asian Games celebrates on the podium with his brother Qatar’s...

Bahrain fights to get runner’s gold returned 29 Sep 2014 - 09:20 am

Dahlan Al Hamad, President of Asian Athletics Association and Qatar Athletics Federation, poses for a picture along medal winners at the victory ceremony...

Kimetto breaks world record 29 Sep 2014 - 09:01 am

BERLIN: Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto smashed the world record in the Berlin Marathon yesterday as he made history by becoming the first man to...

Qatar’s Al Garni powers to gold 28 Sep 2014 - 06:52 am

Mohamad Al Garni, Qatar’s gold medallist, poses for a picture with Qatar Athletics Federation President Dahlan Al Hamad and other officials in Incheon,...

Bahrain’s Jebet stripped of steeplechase victory 28 Sep 2014 - 06:20 am

Bahrain’s Ruth Jebet (centre) is assisted by an official as she walks away from the podium at the medal ceremony on the final...

Toffee alert for South Korea in Japan blockbuster 28 Sep 2014 - 06:15 am

INCHEON, South Korea: South Korea face bitter rivals Japan anxious to avoid the dreaded “toffee punishment” in a politically-charged headline game in the...

Qatar cruise into handball semis 27 Sep 2014 - 04:16 am

Incheon: Qatar thrashed Chinese Taipei 29-19 to sweep their quarter-final round robin league in the handball tournament at the Asian Games here yesterday....

Dragonfly robs Kuwait shooter of gold medal 27 Sep 2014 - 04:12 am

INCHEON: A dragonfly twice danced on the shotgun of Olympic shooting medalist Fehaid Al Deehani as he was about to fire gold medal...

Qatari women’s basketball team quits Games as world marks fall in Incheon 26 Sep 2014 - 08:44 am

South Korea’s Shin competes against China’s Xu during their women’s epee team fencing competition final at Goyang Gymnasium during the 17th Asian Games...