Patna
Sprinters will likely be a serious attraction attributable to sheer numbers within the brief sprint on the opening day of the three-day fourth version of Indian Open U23 Athletics Competitors that can start right here on Saturday at Patna’s Patliputra Sports activities Complicated.
The lads’s 100m has attracted 89 entries. There will likely be 9 heats. The primary eight heats could have 10 opponents whereas the final warmth could have 9 sprinters. “We have now ten lanes for the 100m occasion. Therefore it was determined to have 10 athletes in every of the heats,” Stanley Jones, head of technical workforce of Athletics Federation of India stated on the eve of the U23 competitors.
Manikanta H Hoblidhar who holds the nationwide 100m report of 10.23 seconds set final 12 months will stay up for keep his supremacy. He’ll face stiff problem from Odisha’s Animesh Kujur who is without doubt one of the main males’s 200m sprinter and will likely be seen in motion within the 100m sprint.
The ladies’s 100 heats will see 36 sprinters battling for supremacy.
The lads’s 400m has additionally attracted a great variety of athletes. There are eight heats. Every warmth could have eight athletes.
Going by the entries, 38 runners will contest the boys’s 1500m occasion, whereas two-day grueling decathlon has attracted 24 entries. On the primary day of decathlon the athletes will compete in 100m, lengthy leap, shot put, excessive leap and 400m. The second day occasions are—110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500m run.
The opening occasion on Saturday would be the women and men’s 10,000m race. Haryana’s Puneet Yadav who holds the U23 report of 29:44.64 in 10,000m set in 2022, will likely be amongst 25 opponents. The vast majority of the space runners are from Uttar Pradesh.
A good variety of Uttar Pradesh runners are within the ladies’s 10,000m race. In all there are 12 opponents that can contest for medals on the primary day of the meet.
The morning session could have two finals whereas medals will likely be distributed in 9 disciplines within the publish lunch session.
Radhakrishnan Nair, Chief Athletics coach stated, the Indian Open U23 Athletics Competitors in Patna will likely be a great platform for promising athletes to showcase their potential. “A number of athletes competing right here in Patna will likely be aiming for a gentle efficiency within the 2025 season to remain within the race for Asian Championship and World Athletics Championships,” the chief athletics coach added.
