Animesh Kujur of Odisha dashing to victory within the males’s 200m gold.
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Shaili Singh together with her mentor Anju Bobby George after bettering the latter’s meet mark within the girls’s lengthy leap.
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THULASI KAKKAT
Animesh Kujur couldn’t comprise himself, leaving out a loud roar of pleasure and reduction on the Maharaja’s Stadium right here on Thursday.
The 21-year-old from Odisha had simply damaged the three-year-old 200m Nationwide file, clocking a formidable 20.40s, whereas beating record-holder Amlan Borgohain to the gold.
It was a implausible night on the twenty eighth Nationwide Federation athletics championships for minutes earlier Tamil Nadu triple jumper Praveen Chithravel had equalled his personal Nationwide file (17.37m) and likewise certified for this September’s Tokyo Worlds.
And Asian silver medallist lengthy jumper Shaili Singh proved that she is getting again to her finest with a 6.64m effort that noticed her break her mentor Anju Bobby George’s 23-year-old meet file whereas beating Asian Video games silver medallist Ancy Sojan (6.46m).
“After the implausible 100m on Monday, I knew one thing was going to occur within the 200m immediately,” stated Animesh.
Very long time coming
“It’s been a very long time coming. We’ve bought to thank the blokes who pushed him, Mani, Raghul and Amlan,” stated Martin Owens who coaches Animesh on the Odisha Reliance Centre.
Praveen had crossed 17m in Bengaluru final month and previous to the ultimate right here he had written ‘17.20m for my coach Yoandris’ behind his chest quantity and proudly confirmed it to the world after his massive leap.
“I needed to assist my sore heel get better, so I ended after three rounds,” stated Praveen. Asian champion Abdulla Aboobacker took the silver (16.99m).
Robert Bobby George had anticipated Shaili to leap round 6.75m immediately and although she couldn’t go that far, the 21-year-old produced her finest leap in almost two years.
In the meantime, Samardeep Gill (19.34m) shocked Asian Video games shot put champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor (18.77) whereas one other Asiad winner Annu Rani was not at her finest however gained the ladies’s javelin title comfortably.
The outcomes (winners solely): 200m: Animesh Kujur (Odi) 20.40s (NR, Previous: 20.52, Amlan Borgohain, 2022); 800m: Anu Kumar (Utk) 1:47.78s; 5,000m: Abhishek Pal (Rly) 13:40.59s.
Triple leap: Praveen Chithravel (JSW) 17.37m (equalled personal Nationwide file, previous meet file 16.99m, Eldhose Paul, 2022); shot put: Samardeep Singh Gill (MP) 19.34m; decathlon: Tejaswin Shankar (Del) 7603 factors (MR, Previous: 7502, Jora Singh, 2006).
Ladies: 200m: Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 23.68s; 800m: Twinkle Chaudhary (Reliance) 2:00.71 (MR, Previous: 2:01.79, Okay.M. Chanda, 2023); 5,000m: Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 15:43.42s.
Javelin: Anu Rani (UP) 56.66m; excessive leap: Pooja (Har) 1.84m; lengthy leap: Shaili Singh (UP) 6.64m (MR, Previous: 6.59, Anju Bobby George, 2002); hammer throw: Harshita Sehrawat (Reliance) 61.65m.
Printed – April 24, 2025 09:29 pm IST
