NEW DELHI: Andhra Pradesh’s Jyothi Yarraji displayed a exceptional efficiency, on the penultimate day of the Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships, to clinch the gold medal within the ladies’s 100m hurdles with nice ease and even surpassed her personal meet document in Ranchi on Wednesday.
Within the heats on Tuesday, Yarraji had already set a meet document by finishing the race in 13.18 seconds. Nevertheless, she did not cease there and went on to additional enhance her document by clocking a powerful time of 12.89 seconds within the remaining, successful the gold medal within the course of.
Not solely did Yarraji declare the meet document, however she additionally surpassed the qualification commonplace set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for the Asian Championships.
The qualification commonplace was set at 13.63 seconds, and Yarraji’s excellent efficiency simply exceeded it. Her achievements make her a robust contender for the upcoming Asian Championships scheduled to happen in Bangkok from July 12-16.
Within the heats on Tuesday, Yarraji had already set a meet document by finishing the race in 13.18 seconds. Nevertheless, she did not cease there and went on to additional enhance her document by clocking a powerful time of 12.89 seconds within the remaining, successful the gold medal within the course of.
Not solely did Yarraji declare the meet document, however she additionally surpassed the qualification commonplace set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for the Asian Championships.
The qualification commonplace was set at 13.63 seconds, and Yarraji’s excellent efficiency simply exceeded it. Her achievements make her a robust contender for the upcoming Asian Championships scheduled to happen in Bangkok from July 12-16.
Tamil Nadu’s R Nithya Ramraj was a distant second with a time of 13.44 seconds, whereas Sapna Kumari of Jharkhand was third with 13.58 seconds.
As anticipated, the lads’s 110m hurdles gold went to Maharashtra’s Tejas Ashok Shirse. He was far forward of his rivals, clocking 13.72 seconds.
Punjab’s Twinkle might be one to observe within the remaining of ladies’s 800m scheduled for Thursday. In her warmth on Wednesday, she clocked 2:05.39 to breach the Asian qualifying mark of two:05.74 seconds.
On the lads’s aspect, solely two athletes posted a time under 1:50 within the 800m heats.
Whereas Ankesh Chaudhary of Himachal Pradesh clocked 1:49.73 seconds in his warmth, Anu Kumar of Uttarakhand clocked 1:49.93 seconds.
(With PTI inputs)
