Odisha’s Animesh Kujur, centre, wins the boys’s 100m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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Can’t be!
That’s what everybody who had been watching the boys’s 100m closing from the trackside appeared to say because the outcomes got here up on the large display screen just a few seconds later. It confirmed Companies’ Manikanta Hoblidhar, the nationwide report holder with 10.23s, because the quickest man of the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games on the Ganga Stadium right here on Saturday. Manikanta even posed for the posse of keen cameramen.
But it surely was Odisha’s Animesh Kujur who appeared to have completed first. There had been some confusion someplace and a few 20 minutes later, throughout the medal ceremony, issues grew to become clear and Kujur returned sporting the valuable gold medal.
Was he shocked when Manikanta was proven because the winner first?
Sudeshna Shivankar, centre, of Maharashtra claims the ladies’s 100m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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“No, I knew I got here first. I didn’t have any doubt. My expectation was to interrupt the nationwide report, however it’s okay.,” stated Odisha’s Kujur who clocked 10.28s which equalled Amlan Borgohain’s Video games report set in 2022. Borgohain took the bronze, whereas Manikanta went with no medal, taking the fifth spot in 10.46.
Kujur, not a robust starter, made up properly in the direction of the end.
“My coach advised me, don’t panic even for those who don’t get begin, you will have top-end. Simply imagine that you just’re going to do good,” stated Kujur who’s coached by Englishman Martin Owens on the Reliance Basis’s Odisha centre.
He has some huge objectives for this 12 months and that features breaking the 100m nationwide report although the 200m is his predominant occasion.
Sawan Barwal of Himachal Pradesh gained gold and created a Nationwide Video games report within the males’s 10000m on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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“Sure, within the senior Federation Cup… simply wait and watch,” he stated, elevating hopes throughout.
Kujur stated his coach was engaged on his begin.
“He’s doing one thing, one thing…I additionally don’t know what’s happening in his thoughts.”
In the meantime, Maharashtra’s Sudeshna Shivankar, final 12 months’s Khelo India College Video games champion, shocked high names like R. Giridharani and Srabani Nanda to emerge because the quickest girl right here in 11.76s.
Tamil Nadu’s Pavithra Venkatesh and Baranica Elangovan made it a pleasant one-two in ladies’s pole-vault the place nationwide record-holder Rosy Meena Paulraj completed tenth.
Pavithra Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu gained gold in ladies’s pole vault on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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Earlier, within the morning, Himachal Pradesh’s Sawan Barwal broke Nationwide report holder Gulveer Singh’s Nationwide Video games report within the mens’ 10,000m clocking 28:49.93s.
“I may have executed so much higher, however there was nobody to push me,” stated the 26-year-old.
The outcomes: Males: 100m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) 10.28s EMR, 2. Pranav Gurav (Mah) 10.32, 3. Amlan Borgohain (Asm) 10.43. 1500m: 1. Yoonus Shah (Ser) 3:46.48s, 2. Ritesh Ohre (MP) 3:46.64, 3. Ram Singh (Utk) 3:50.24. 10,000m: 1. Sawan Barwal (HP) 28:49.93s, 2. Kiran Matre (Mah) 29:04.76, 3. Vinod Singh (MP) 29:43.60. Lengthy bounce: 1. Shahnavaz Khan (UP) 7.70m, 2. V. Sriram (TN) 7.59, 3. C.V. Anurag (Ker) 7.56. Discus throw: 1 Gagandeep Singh (Ser) 55.01m, 2. Nirbhay Singh (Har) 54.07, 3. Alex P. Thankachan (Ker) 52.79.
Ladies: 100m: 1. Sudeshna Shivankar (Mah) 11.76s, 2. Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 11.79, 3. R. Giridharani (TN) 11.88. 1500m: 1. Ok.M. Chanda (Del) 4:17.74s, 2. Ok.M. Deeksha (MP) 4:21.92, 3. Amandeep Kaur (Pun) 4:22.75. 10,000m: 1. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 33:33.47s, 2. Ankita (Utk) 34:31.03, 3. Soniya (Utk) 35:45.19. Pole vault: 1. Pavithra Venkatesh (TN) 3.95m, 2. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 3.90, 3. Mariya Jaison (Ker) 3.90. Discus throw: Seema (Har) 52.70s, 2. Bhavana Yadav (Del) 51.82, 3. Amanat Kamboj (Pun) 49.94.
Printed – February 08, 2025 08:07 pm IST
