Jyothi Yarraji.
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Reigning Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji clinched gold in her first race of the season, that too with a nationwide report, profitable the 60m hurdles occasion by clocking 8.04 seconds on the Elite Indoor Assembly in Nantes, France.
The 25-year-old Yarraji, the truth is, broke her personal earlier nationwide report of 8.12 seconds twice in a matter of few hours on Saturday.
She first clocked 8.07 seconds within the heats after which bettered her time within the ultimate on the Stadium Pierre-Quinon within the World Athletics Indoor Tour bronze degree meet.
Her timing is, nevertheless, nonetheless in need of the qualifying mark of seven.94 seconds for the World Indoor Championships to be held in Nanjing, China in March.
Yarraji, who was not too long ago conferred with the Arjuna Award, had gained 60m gold within the Asian Indoor Championships in 2024 with a time of 8.12 seconds in Tehran, Iran.
She additionally holds the nationwide out of doors 100m hurdles report of 12.78 seconds. She is the reigning 100m hurdles Asian champion and gained a silver medal within the Hangzhou Asian Video games in 2023 with a time of 12.91 seconds.
In the meantime, in the boys’s 60m hurdles occasion, Tejas Shirse gained a bronze with a time of seven.68 seconds.
This was Shirse’s second race of the season. On January 19, he had set a nationwide report time of seven.65 seconds on the CMCM Indoor Assembly in Luxembourg. The earlier nationwide report within the occasion was 7.70 seconds, which was set by Siddhanth Thingalaya in 2017.
The 22-year-old Shirse can also be the nationwide report holder in 110m hurdles with a time of 13.41 seconds.
Printed – January 27, 2025 12:27 am IST
