Pranav, proper, shocked a powerful discipline to clinch the dash gold.
| Photograph Credit score: R. Okay. Nithin
Pranav Pramod Gurav felt a little bit of a shiver as he lined up for the lads’s 100m last within the twenty eighth Nationwide Federation Athletics Championships on the Maharaja’s Stadium right here on Monday night.
With 4 of the six quickest Indian males in historical past, it was the maybe the strongest-ever discipline in a serious nationwide competitors and Pranav didn’t give himself a lot of an opportunity.
However the 23-year-old Railway athlete from Pune shocked nationwide file holder Gurindervir Singh, former file holder Manikanta Hoblidhar and Nationwide Video games champion Animesh Kujur to stunningly take the gold in a private finest 10.27s.
A bit stressed, Gurindervir didn’t have a great begin however Pranav had a fantastic one.
He was barely forward by the 60m mark and completed with a wise dip. Animesh (10.32s) took the silver whereas Manikanta, who broke the meet file within the semifinal and achieved the AFI’s Asian Championship qualification clocking 10.25s, was third in 10.35. Gurindervir (nationwide file 10.20s) appeared to limp on the end and ended up final.
“I dedicate this gold to my grandfather who’s in ICU in a Pune hospital,” mentioned Pranav. “I’ve been ending second usually in main competitions, I didn’t count on this gold. With so many quick runners, I anticipated a nationwide file right this moment however that didn’t occur.”
Telangana’s Nithya Gandhe was the quickest lady in 11.50s.
Nationwide Video games champion Sachin Yadav, the world’s fifth finest javelin thrower this yr, gained with a fifth-round effort of 83.86m whereas Yashvir Singh (80.85m) was second. The highest seven finishers made the reduce for subsequent month’s Asian Championship in Gumi, South Korea.
The outcomes (winners solely): Males: 100m: Pranav Gurav (Rly) 10.27s; 1500m: Yoonus Shah (JSW) 3:41.93s; 10,000m: Sawan Barwal (Military) 28:57.13s MR, OR Surendra Singh’s 28:57.90; javelin throw: Sachin Yadav (UP) 83.86m.
Girls: 100m: Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 11.50s; 1500m: Lili Das (Utk) 4:10.88s; 10,000m: Sanjivani Jadav (Mah) 33:44.43s; pole vault: Pavithra Venkatesh (TN) 4m.
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