Beautiful efficiency: Chanda bettered her personal three-year-old Video games report and her private greatest to win gold within the girls’s 800m. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Praveen Chithravel clinched gold in males’s triple soar. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Sensational: Mohammed Afsal labored his means from the again of the pack to win the lads’s 800m. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Servin Sebastian of SSCB received gold in males’s 20km race stroll. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Jyothi Yarraji (106) took the ladies’s 200m gold. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Okay.M. Chanda appeared on the big display screen a couple of occasions, unable to imagine her gold-winning time of two:00.82s within the girls’s 800m within the Nationwide Video games athletics competitors on the Ganga Stadium right here on Tuesday.
“I used to be not anticipating that in any respect,” the Asian Championship silver medallist advised The Hindu after her gorgeous season-opener that bettered her personal three-year-old Video games report and her private greatest (earlier 2:01.16s).
Delhi’s Chanda, Delhi who’s coached by Olympian O.P. Jaisha in Bengaluru, had picked up loads of classes whereas watching the Paris Olympics and tried utilizing them right here.
“I observed that athletes had been working the opening lap in 58, 59 seconds and going all out within the final 150m and I attempted to try this,” stated Chanda who performed a affected person ready recreation, shadowing race chief Amandeep Kaur for a significant a part of the two-lapper, earlier than breaking away simply earlier than the penultimate nook. She collapsed in exhaustion after crossing the end line.
“I’ll attempt to go beneath two minutes this season,” she stated.
In the meantime, Nationwide record-holder Praveen Chithravel (17.37m) led a Tamil Nadu 1-2 within the males’s triple soar with Mohammed Salahuddin. Chithravel’s gold got here with a fourth-round effort of 16.50m.
“I didn’t count on something right here, for the beginning of the season that is good,” stated Chithravel who trains on the JSW’s IIS centre at Ballari.
Asian Video games silver medallist Mohammed Afsal labored his means from the again of the pack to win the lads’s 800m whereas Asian silver medallist Jyothi Yarraji made positive everyone observed her fashionable hairdo as she cruised to the ladies’s 200m gold so as to add to the 100m hurdles title she had received earlier. Odisha’s Animesh Kujur accomplished a 100-200m double and now has three golds together with one within the dash relay.
The race stroll, which was first scrapped from the Video games schedule earlier than making a return after a lot stress from host Uttarakhand, noticed the primary six bettering the Video games report within the males’s 20km occasion with Companies’ Servin Sebastian beating Paris Olympian Suraj Panwar for the gold. The ladies walkers had been solely provided a 10km occasion, final held in 1999, and all of the 9 finishers bettered the Video games report.
The outcomes:
Males: 200m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) 20.58s, 2. Ragul Kumar (TN) 21.06, 3. B. Nithin (TN) 21.07. 800m: 1. Mohammed Afsal (Ser) 1:49.13s, 2. Anu Kumar (Utk) 1:49.19, 3. Prakash Gagade (Ser) 1:49.58. Triple soar: 1. Praveen Chithravel (TN) 16.50m, 2. Mohammed Salahuddin (TN) 16.01, 3. Mohammed Muhassin (Ker) 15.57. Hammer throw: 1. Taranveer Singh (Ser) 66.64m, 2. Damneet Singh (Pun) 64.71, 3. Praveen Kumar (Raj) 64.42. 20km race stroll: 1. Servin Sebastian (Ser) 1:21.23s MR, OR Gurmeet Singh’s 1:23.26, 2011; 2. Suraj Panwar (Utk) 1:21.34 BR; 3. Amanjot Singh (Pun) 1:21.42.
Ladies: 200m: 1. Jyothi Yarraji (AP) 23.35s, 2. Unnathi Aiyappa (Kar) 23.70, 3. Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 23.76. 800m: 1. Okay.M. Chanda (Del) 2:00.82s MR, OR personal 2:01.58 2022; 2. Twinkle Chaudhary (Pun) 2:03.46, 3. Amandeep Kaur (Pun) 2:04.76. 10km stroll: 1. Ravina (Har) 45.52.00s MR, OR Baladevi’s 51:56.00s 1999; 2. Shalini (Utk) 46:12.00, 3. Munita Prajapati (UP) 46:23.00. Heptathlon: 1. Agasara Nandini (Tel) 5601 prts, 2. Pooja (Har) 4999, 3. S. Deepika (TN) 4939.
Printed – February 11, 2025 08:42 pm IST
