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The following are the national records in athletics in India. Some of the records are maintained by Athletics Federation of India (AFI). Outdoor times for track races between 200 meters to 10,000 meters are set on 400-meter unbanked tracks. Indoor marks are established on 200-meter tracks, whether banked or unbanked. Indoor tracks longer than ...
Norman Pritchard – India's first Olympic athletics medallist Nilima Ghose was among the first Indian female Olympians Milkha Singh – known as "The Flying Sikh". At the Olympic Games, the first Indian competitor was Norman Pritchard, an Anglo-Indian, who won silver medals in the 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics. [8]
The Indian National Open Athletics Championships is an annual outdoor track and field competition, organised by the Athletics Federation of India, which serves as the national championship for the sport in India. It was first held as a national championship in 1961.
National records in athletics are the marks achieved by a nation's best athlete or athletes in a particular athletics event. These records are ratified by the respective national athletics governing body. A national record may also be the respective continental record (also called "area record" (AR)), or even the world record (WR) in that event.
Milkha Singh (20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021), [a] [2] also known as "The Flying Sikh", was an Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army. He is the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games .
Hima Das (born 9 January 2000), nicknamed Dhing Express, [8] is an Indian sprinter from the state of Assam.She holds the current Indian national record in 400 meters with a timing of 50.79 s that she clocked at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Mayookha Johny (born 9 April 1988) is an Indian track and field athlete from Kerala who specialises in long jump and triple jump. She holds the current Indian National record for triple jump with a mark of 14.11 m (46 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). She is the first Indian woman to cross the fourteen-metre mark. [3]
Decathlon record holder Dmitriy Karpov is a World Championship and Olympic medallist. Asian records in athletics are the best marks set in an event by an athlete who competes for a member nation of the Asian Athletics Association. The organisation is responsible for ratification and it analyses each record before approving it.