Tejas Shirse was clearly not blissful, regardless of successful the 110m hurdles on the ultimate day of the 63rd Inter-State athletics championships right here on Sunday with a brand new meet file of 13.54 seconds. The 22-year previous had been aiming for the Olympic normal but it surely was an excessive amount of to ask for from somebody who received critical in regards to the sport lower than a 12 months in the past.
“Seven months again, I used to be not even enthusiastic about the Olympics. It began on the final inter-state, the place I couldn’t qualify for the Asian Video games. However then I noticed the race in Hangzhou and thought, ‘I might have been there’. It triggered quite a lot of issues.
“That’s after I made a roadmap for attending to the Olympics, step one being the nationwide file, which occurred just lately.
“The following was the qualifying mark, which didn’t occur however that doesn’t imply I’ll surrender,” a decided Shirse stated.
Additionally proving himself prepared for greater challenges was Sahil Silwal, taking the highest spot in javelin throw. Silwal, who had been among the many most promising throwers a number of years in the past, pushed himself laborious to handle 81.81m in his last throw for a brand new private greatest.
Essentially the most anticipated occasion on the meet noticed a brand new nationwide file by the nationwide 4x400m blended relay workforce however fell wanting qualifying for Paris right here on Sunday.
The quartet of Mohd. Anas, Mohd. Ajmal, Jothika Sri Dandi and surprisingly Kiran Pahal clocked 3:12.82 to raised the earlier nationwide file by virtually two seconds.
It was, nevertheless, attention-grabbing to see Kiran — who booked a person quota earlier — regardless of the AFI’s vehement claims of not contemplating non-campers for relay occasions. It stays to be seen whether or not it was a one-off or the AFI considers her for the nationwide camp and the ladies’s relay workforce.
The outcomes (finals):
Males: 200m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi, 20.65s), 2. Nalubothu Srinivas (AP, 20.95s), 3. Ragul Kumar (TN, 21.15s); 800m: 1. Shyam Milan Bind (MP, 1:47.24), 2. Rijoy J (Ker, 1:48.58), 3. Ankesh Chaudhary (HP, 1:50.01); 10,000m: 1. Kartik Kumar (UP, 29:50.11), 2. Gulveer Singh (UP, 29:50.38), 3. Vansh (Har, 30:43.74); 110m Hurdles: 1. Tejas Shirse (Mah, 13.54s), 2. Manav (TN, 13.85s), 3. Madhvendra Shekhawat (Raj, 13.85s); 400H: 1. Nikhil Bhardwaj (Pun, 50.21s), 2. Murad Sirman (Guj, 50.60s), 3. Dhaval Utekar (Guj, 50.87s);
Triple leap: 1. Abdulla Aboobacker (Ker, 17.00m), 2. Praveen Chitravel (TN, 16.98m), 3. Gailey Venister (TN, 16.40m); javelin: 1. Sahil Silwal (Har, 81.81m), 2. Vikrant Malik (Odi, 81.74m), 3. Kishore Jena (Odi, 80.84m).
Girls: 200m: 1. Srabani Nanda (Odi, 23.89s), 2. Madhumita Deb (MP, 23.93s), 3. Nancy (Har, 23.95s); 800m: 1. Chanda (Del, 2:01.53), 2. Amandeep Kaur (Pun, 2:04.73), 3. Gug Kaur (Pun, 2:05.60); 10,000m: 1. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah, 33:42.54), 2. Seema (HP, 34:05.69), 3. Ankita (Har, 36:34.97).
100m Hurdles: 1. Jyothi Yarraji (AP, 13.06s), 2. Pragyan Sahu (Odi, 13.15s), 3. Nithya Ramraj (TN, 13.21s); 400H: 1. Olimba Steffi (TN, 59.43s), 2. Ramandeep Kaur (Pun, 59.81s), 3. Deekshita Ramak Gowda (Kar, 59.84s).
Excessive leap: 1. Khyati Mathur (UP, 1.86m), 2. Pooja (Har, 1.79m), 3. Manshi (UP, 1.76m); lengthy leap: 1. Ancy Sojan E (Ker, 6.59m), 2. Shaili Singh (UP, 6.59m), Nayana James (Ker, 6.42m); 4×400 blended relay: 1. India A (3:12:87), 2. India B (3:14:22), 3. Sri Lanka (3:18.18).
