Sports / Athletics

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...

Hagino claims fourth gold but China dominate in pool 25 Sep 2014 - 08:58 am

INCHEON, South Korea: Japan’s Kosuke Hagino won his fourth swimming gold but China ruled the pool as they shot out to a big...

China enjoy pool party; Tajik footballer fails drugs test 24 Sep 2014 - 08:38 am

INCHEON, South Korea: China proved they are still the Asian Games gold standard in the pool by scooping six swimming titles yesterday, while...

Brown backs Doha’s 2019 World Championship bid 14 Sep 2014 - 11:28 pm

Doha: Doha’s bid to host the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Athletics received a significant boost on Friday after international athletics star and...

Pistorius has not damaged Paralympic movement: IPC 13 Sep 2014 - 06:53 am

LONDON: Oscar Pistorius’s conviction for culpable homicide after shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp will not harm the profile of the Paralympic movement,...