India's Sainath Pardhi won the bronze medal in the 51kg Greco-Roman event on Wednesday in Amman, Jordan as India finished the U17 Wrestling World Championships 2024 with two medals. Earlier Ronak Dahiya had won the bronze medal in the 110kg category. 

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Sainath secured India's second medal

Sainath was defeated by Turan Dashdamirov of Azerbaijan by 4-0(9-0) in the round of 16. However, he reached the repechage round since Dashdamirov reached the final.

Saintah Pardhi faced Domenic Michael Munaretto of the USA in the repechage round and then beat the American by 3-1(7-1). In the bronze medal match, Saintah beat Yerassyl Mussan of Kazakhstan by 3-1(3-1) to win the bronze medal.

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Turan Dashdamirov of Azerbaijan won the Gold medal while Kutman Kalbaev of Kyrgyzstan won the silver medal. India's Sainath Pardhi and Abolfazl Mehrdad Karamiegaei of Iran won the bronze medals.

Hello everyone! The grandest football tournament in Europe is BACK, and so are we! 

Welcome everyone to our LIVE coverage of UEFA Champions League 2025/26 matchday 1, where we will witness 18 matches from 16th September 2025 to 19 September 2025. 

In this LIVE blog, you will get LIVE scores, news, updates and results of each of those 18 matches at a single place. 

Arsenal will be in action on the 16th night, while as the night gets deeper, we will have Real Madrid facing Marseille, and Juventus playing Dortmund on the 17th night. 

On the 18th, defending champions PSG will be in action while Liverpool, Chelsea, and Bayern Munich will also be playing their matches. 

On the final night of matchday 1, we will see FC Barcelona playing Newcastle United, while Manchester City will be facing Napoli. So stay tuned and share the LIVE blog with your friends. 

Hello and welcome to another LIVE blog of UEFA Champions League 2025-26. 

Tonight, along with the other five matches, we will separately cover the FC Bayern Munich vs Chelsea FC match at the Allianz Arena in Munich. 

Bayern Munich, who are one of the most successful teams in the tournament's history, will look to start well against Chelsea, who are the first and only team to win every UEFA tournament. 

So, sit back and relax as we bring you all the LIVE updates of the FC Bayern Munich vs Chelsea FC from our web desk. Enjoy the coverage.

India's star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the men's javelin throw final in the World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo on Wednesday. Neeraj secured his place in the final with a throw of 84.85m in the first round. The final of this event will be held on Thursday, September 18th.

Also Read: World Athletics Championships 2025: Medal Tally and India's Results

All it takes is one throw. 🌟

Wake up, throw, qualify. #TeamIIS star Neeraj Chopra storms into the Tokyo World Championships final with an 84.85m throw on his very first attempt.#WorldAthleticsChamps #CraftingVictories 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/YYcvXH59wA

— Inspire Institute of Sport (@IIS_Vijayanagar) September 17, 2025

Neeraj is the defending champion

Neeraj Chopra needed to cross the 84.5m mark to reach the final of this event and he achieved this feat by crossing this hurdle in the very first round. Neeraj Chopra is the winner of the javelin throw event at the World Championships and won the gold medal in the year 2023. He was the first Asian to win a gold medal in the javelin throw event at the Championships. 

So, Neeraj is competing in the event as the defending champion and will be aiming to become only the third player in history to win the World Javelin title twice in a row, after Jan Zelezny (1993, 1995) and Grenada's Anderson Peters (2019, 2022).

Neeraj won the gold medal in 2023 with a throw of 88.17m, while Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem finished second with a throw of 87.82m and Jakub Vadlejch finished third with a throw of 86.67m.

Neeraj recently breached 90m barrier

Earlier this year, Neeraj breached the 90m barrier with a 90.23m throw at the Doha Diamond League, but has also mixed in a few modest distances along the way. He had failed to breach the 85m in two competitions, and narrowly crossed the mark on two other occasions, with his second-best throw in the calendar year being 88.16m.

Weber qualified for the final

This time, apart from Neeraj Chopra, world number one Julian Weber qualified for the final by throwing 87.21m in the second attempt. Weber threw 82.29m in his first attempt. Neeraj was joined in Group A by India's Sachin Yadav, who threw 80.16m in his first attempt.

Other athletes in the 19-man Group A included 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago, Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic, as well as Brazil's Luiz da Silva, 

While the 18-strong Group B comprises reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, Anderson Peters and rising Sri Lankan Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage among others. The men's javelin also has three other Indian athletes - Sachin Yadav, Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav, the biggest number among participating nations in the event.

The World Athletics Championships 2025 Tokyo got underway at the Japan National Stadium on 13 September. It will go on until 21 September. This milestone edition marks the 20th World Athletics Championships since the inaugural event in Helsinki in 1983. Over 2,000 athletes from 200 nations are competing across 49 events, with 147 medals up for grabs.

India’s disappointing campaign at the Championships in Tokyo continued with long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, sprint hurdler Tejas Shirse, and steeplechasers Parul Chaudhary and Ankita Dhyani failing to progress beyond the first round. Sreeshankar came back in July after sitting out for more than a year due to a serious knee injury but a late charge helped the 26-year-old Indian to qualify for his fourth World Championships by grabbing the last spot available through the rankings route.

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Meanwhile, Priyanka Goswami finished 24th in the women’s event while Sandeep Kumar came in 23rd in the men’s event. Ram Baboo, however, faced disqualification. Sarvesh Kushare scripted history by becoming the first Indian high jumper to qualify for the final of a World Athletics Championships 2025.

India have sent a 19-member athletics contingent for the World Athletics Championships 2025. The list features 14 men and five women, who will compete in 15 different medal events, 11 for men and four for women.

World Athletics Championships 2025 | Indian Athletes Results

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World Athletics Championships 2025 | Medal Tally

Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, popularly known as 'Mondo' Duplantis, has broken the men's pole vaulting World Record for the 14th time, a record which he previously set himself.

The 25-year-old Swedish pole vaulter improved his own men's pole vault world record to 6.30m at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on September 15, 2025.

This is what 6.30m looks like btw, outrageous.

A 14th World Record for Mondo Duplantis.#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/09zT9zXvov

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) September 15, 2025

This marks the 14th time Duplantis has broken the world record in his career, first achieving it in February 2020 with a height of 6.17m.

Duplantis, who was coming off a victory at the Diamond League in Zurich, reached the 6.29m mark at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Budapest last month and now has cross it by one more centimetre, as he brought the claw back.

"I am so happy, I cannot explain it," Duplantis said after winning the competition in Tokyo. "For the past two weeks, I really enjoyed being in Tokyo. I have been enjoying everything so much. I feel the only way to leave Japan was to set the world record. That was my mentality," he added.

However, in this article, Sportz Point will explore all the 14 times Mono Duplantis broke the World Record.

Mondo Duplantis: 14 times the pole vaulter broke the World Record

1. 2020 - 6.17m

Back in 2014, France's legendary pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie marked the world record with a clearance of 6.16m.

The record nearly stood for six years, until the 20-year-old Mondo Duplantis broke the previous record with a 6.17m height at the Orlen Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland.

This was the first time Duplantis broke the world record, previously breaking the 10-year age group record with a jump of 3.86m in 2010.

2. 2020 - 6.18m

Only a week after creating the World Record in Poland, Duplantis bettered his record with a 6.18m jump at the Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow, Scotland.

Duplantis stated the following after setting new record in Glasgow;

It’s the best little split second that could ever be,

Everything builds up to that one tiny little moment. That little free-fall is a magical moment.

 

 

 

 

 

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3. 2022 - 6.19m

Mondo Duplantis earned the crown as an Olympic Champion, following his maiden gold medal win in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

However, the Swedish athlete surpassed his own record for the third time in 2022, after securing a 6.19m jump in the Belgrade Indoor Meeting, Serbia.

WR!!!! #6.19 #borntofly pic.twitter.com/UghhIVutxv

— Mondo Duplantis (@mondohoss600) March 7, 2022

4. 2022 - 6.20m

Breaking his own world record in a span of 15 days, Duplantis again stunned the world in 2022. 

Following his 6.19m jump in the Belgrade Indoor Meeting on 7 March 2022, Duplantis promised "something higher" in the upcoming world championship. 

He kept his word in the best possible way, securing a 6.20m jump at the world indoor championships on 21 March 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. 

5. 2022 - 6.21m

Mondo Duplantis clinched his first-ever outdoor world title on 24 March 2022 at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Duplantis, again improved his own record and set his third world record in 2022, soaring over 6.21m, and breaking the world record for the first time in the outdoors.

Along with this record, Duplantis also surpassed Sergey Bubka, one of the greatest pole vaulters of all-time, for career six metre-plus clearances. Bubka's 46-time record was overshadowed by Duplantis' 48 after this championship. 

6. 2023 - 6.22m 

On 25th February 2023, Mondo Duplantis broke his own record, clearing 6.21m to win the All Star Perche 2023 event in Clermont-Ferrand, France, where he again has broken the record in 2025.

Duplantis was congratulated by Renaud Lavillenie after the win, whose record he first broke back in 2020 and who is a co-founder of the All Star Perche event.

Mondo Duplantis ends his indoor season with brilliant last attempt at 6.22m WR in Clermont-Ferrand, France! https://t.co/1qVXmHuOhS , #mondoduplantis, #polevault, #swedishathletics, #europeanathletics, @mondohoss600, @PUMA, @euroathletics, #PUMA, #PUMArunning, pic.twitter.com/HVAJ9AmENX

— RunBlogRun (@RunBlogRun) February 27, 2023

7. 2023 - 6.23m 

Duplantis broke the world record for the seventh time following his 6.23m clearance to win the 2023 Diamond League Final in Eugene on 17 September 2023.

🚨 WORLD RECORD🚨@mondohoss600 clears 6.23m at the first attempt to claim his 3rd successive #DiamondLeague title 🤯

Get that man a brewski! 🍺#DLFinal#EugeneDL 🇺🇸
📸 @GorczynskaMarta pic.twitter.com/aUjbuFPQjp

— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) September 17, 2023

8. 2024 - 6.24m (Xiamen, China)

Duplantis opened his 2024 season in style, soaring 6.24m to set the world record for outdoors at the Diamond League event in Xiamen, China.

The Swedish pole vaulter registered the highest clearance in history to add 1cm to the record he had set in Eugene, USA in 2023.

💬"It was my first time jumping here in China, and I was really just trying to enjoy the moment. It's people that I really want to show what I can do."
- Says #Duplantis after elevating his world pole vault record to a new high of 6.24m at Diamond League in Xiamen. #XiamenDL pic.twitter.com/Uqt8g3x8mb

— CGTN Sports Scene (@CGTNSportsScene) April 21, 2024

9. 2024 - 6.25m (Paris, France)

Duplantis retained his Olympic Gold medal title in the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking his own record to register a 6.25m clearance. 

The 25-year-old became the first athlete to retain the pole vault title, since American pole vaulter Bob Richards achieved the remarkable feat in 1952 and 1956.

Mondo Duplantis is out of this world! ✈️🌍

Listen to the roar inside the Stade de France as he set a new world record of 6.25m. 🔥#Olympics #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/0bxzWecxi4

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 15, 2024

10. 2024 - 6.26m (Silesia, Poland)

For the second time in his career, Mondo Duplantis shattered the world record three times in a calendar year in 2024.

Following the record he set at the Paris Olympics 2024, Duplantis bettered it by 1cm to soar over 6.26m at the Silesia Diamond League in Poland on 25 August 2024.

He also broke his world record for the third time in the outdoor season and for the tenth time in his career.

11. 2025 - 6.27m (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

As the latest world record, Mondo Duplantis has broken the world record for a record 11th time in his career, to set a new high of 6.27m on 28 February 2025 at the All-Star Perche Event in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Here is the moment Mondo Duplantis broke the World Record in the Pole Vault with 6.27m in France!!🤯🤯

11 World Records so far in his career!! A LEGEND.pic.twitter.com/WCXfr1qe6I

— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) February 28, 2025

12. 2025 - 6.30m (Tokyo)

Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for 14th time with a jump of 6.30 metres after securing a third straight world title as he won the Gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on 15 September 2025.

Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 clears a World Record of 6.30m in the men's Pole Vault in Tokyo!!🥇🥇

World Record No. 14 for him!!🔥🔥pic.twitter.com/9n32pVkMPO

— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) September 15, 2025