Singh recorded a personal best of 1.93 metres, surpassing the previous record of 1.92 metres set by Sahana Kumari in 2012, and winning a gold medal at the Asian U20 Championships in Hong Kong.
India's overall tally of 107 medals accounted for 6.7% of the total medals up for grabs. But its 29 medals in athletics made up 20.1% of the total track & field medals on offer.
Shri Samarth Athletics Sports Residential Academy has produced young marathon runners who have reached the finish line even at the international level.
Hassan, who is of Ethiopian descent, won medals at the 1,500m, 5,000m & the 10,000m, the first athlete to do so in the middle and long distance events.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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