Aysha is now setting sights on a new sporting ambition – express herself and travel through para archery, a discipline which officially took off in Bangladesh on Monday

Friends turned to competitors as Lubaba became champion in the girl's rapid chess event on Saturday by surpassing Alo, who put Lubaba behind today to win the gold medal in girl’s blitz chess event. Courtesy of the two, Chattogram Division and Dhaka Division are tied in the medals table after Dhaka's Manon Reza Neer, hailing from Narayanganj, won both gold medals in boy’s rapid and blitz events.

Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21m that he set in winning the world title outdoors in Oregon last year.

The 27-year-old, who won in Rotterdam last Sunday, convincingly ended his 35-year-old opponent's comeback heroics that saw Murray fight four three-set battles and overcome eight match points to reach the final in Doha

Following decades in doldrums, Bangladesh athletics have found a beacon of hope in Imranur Rahman, who stormed to a stunning 60m gold medal at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Kazakhstan recently. The 29-year-old had already won back-to-back titles in 100m sprint in national athletics and is promising to revive some of the glory days of the sport in the country. In a freewheeling interview with The Daily Star’s Atique Anam, the Sheffield-based sprinter talked about his momentous victory, his ambitions, idols, sacrifices and a lot more. Here are the excerpts of the interview.

Replying to a question about his sporting idols, Imranur said: “My sporting idol outside of athletics is boxer Mohammad Ali,"

The Daily Star (DS): Congratulations for bringing such a big honour for Bangladesh. How was your reaction when you won the gold medal?

For too long the country’s athletics had failed to live up to its celebrated past at the international stage. While the Bangladeshi sprinters -- the likes of Shah Alam, Bimal Chandra Tarafder, MahbubAlam -- contributed to five golds out of the overall eight medals in athletics from 1984 to 2019 at the regional multi-sports extravaganza in the form of South Asian Games, it has been 17 frustrating years since Mahfizur Rahman Mithu won a gold medal in 110m hurdles in the 2006 Colombo edition.  

All speakers in the programme revisited the illustrious journey of the legendary swimmer

Although recent reforms have given women in Saudi Arabia more freedoms, many of their rights remain restricted.

"My plans after Dubai depend on the U.S. I'm waiting for a reply, it's not on me... I will know soon," world number one Djokovic told reporters after practice in Belgrade

Around 4000 athletes will compete in 193 events at 24 venues across Dhaka in the final phase of the Sheikh Kamal 2nd Bangladesh Youth Games, which will get underway at the Army Stadium on February 26, organisers at a press conference informed yesterday.

The England-based sprinter said he wants to inspire the next generation to come into athletics

Sporting greats Lionel Messi and Rafael Nadal on Instagram backed each other on to win the 2023 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award.

Novak Djokovic has shown that age is not a barrier and the 35-year-old will continue to break records, his younger rivals on the ATP tour said as the Serbian star looks to overtake Steffi Graf as the player with the most weeks at world number one.

Mashfia Afrin, a former national player, wrote a piece of history by conducing matches of Junior World Tennis Series Bangladesh Open Tennis Competition which got underway yesterday at Sheikh Jamal National Tennis Complex in Ramna.

The 35-year-old Serbian remains top of the latest ATP rankings released on Monday bringing him level with the amount of weeks that Graf spent as women's world number one.

Bangladesh Taekwondo Federation general secretary Mahmudul Islam Rana refuted criticism over touring with the team as a coach while the South Korean head coach stayed back in Bangladesh.

It was a seventh career title for the 19-year-old Spaniard and first since winning the US Open in September before he went on to become the youngest ever world number one.

Former German tennis great Boris Becker thanked world number one Novak Djokovic Sunday for his backing while he was in a British prison and called the Serb “probably the greatest player of all time”.