The 23-year-old clocked a powerful time of 12.78 seconds, enhancing upon her earlier nationwide mark of 12.82 seconds set in October 2022.
It was India’s first ever 100m hurdles medal on the World College Video games.
In the identical occasion, Viktoria Forster of Slovakia secured the gold medal with a time of 12.72 seconds, whereas Yanni Wu of China claimed the silver, ending with a time of 12.76 seconds.
In one other excellent efficiency, Amlan Borgohain, a nationwide document holder sprinter, clinched a bronze medal within the males’s 200m race with a season’s finest time of 20.55 seconds. Borgohain narrowly missed his personal nationwide document of 20.52 seconds.
The gold medal within the males’s 200m race was gained by Tsebo Isadore Matsoso of South Africa, who clocked 20.36 seconds, and Yudai Nishi of Japan secured the silver medal with a time of 20.46 seconds.
Indian athletics’ first medal on the World College Video games got here within the 2013 version in Kazan, Russia, the place shot putter Inderjeet Singh gained a silver. Inderjeet went on to win a gold within the 2015 version in Gwangju, South Korea.
Within the 2017 version in Taipei, Sanjivani Jadhav gained a silver in 10,000m race earlier than Dutee Chand clinched a 100m gold in 2019 in Naples, Italy.
(With PTI inputs)
