Personalities

- Nisha Millet
- Vijay Bharadwaj
- Aparna Popat
- P. Gopichand
- Mahesh Bhupathi
- Anil Kumble
- P.Anil Kumar

Young Achievers

- Punkaj Advani
- Shilpa Sequeira
- Neema Joyappa
- B.N. Chandrika

Interview

- Roger Binny
- M Azharuddin
- Raman Subba Row
- Ashok Shandilya

Review

Sports History

Weight Lifting

One may reasonably surmise that our ancestors diverted themselves with tests of strength by lifting rocks and boulders. There is evidence that the Greeks competed with each other in the sport of lifting stones. There is also evidence that a similar kind of activity was carried out in various parts of the world. However, the more sophisticated form of weightlifting became popular only in the later part of the 19th Century. The sport got an impetus only after it was introduced in the Olympic charter of games. While the first weightlifting championships were held at Cafe Monica in London in March 1891, an open category (super heavyweight) event was included in the 1896 Olympics. The sport became a regular feature from the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, standardised weightlifting with definite rules and procedures came to acquire its own place. The sport has been a regular feature of the Asian Games sinc e 1951, but for the 1962 Asiad, when it was dropped due to unavoidable circumstances.

E. Karunakaran won a gold medal in the 53 kg category in the 1978 Commonwealth Games at Edmonton. Karunakaran also won gold medals in the same category in the 1980 and 1981 Commonwealth weightlifting championships held at Cardiff and Auckland respectively.

The first medal in the Commonwealth Games was Mohan Lal Ghosh's silver in the 1960 Kingston Commonwealth Games in the 60 kg category. India's brightest moment was when its lifters won 11 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games held at Auckland in 1990.

Karunakaran and B.K. Satpathy have also won bronze medals in the 52 kg and 56 kg categories respectively in the 1981 Asian Weightlifting Championships at Nagoya.