Bengaluru
The Winners of gold medals in women and men’s 35 km race stroll entered their names within the document books on the penultimate day of the 63rd Nationwide Open Athletics Championships right here at Bengaluru’s Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Sunday.
On their option to profitable gold medals, Amit of Haryana and Payal of Railway Sports activities, improved the meet document within the grueling 35km race strolling occasion.
Amit clocked 2:38:00.00 to higher the earlier time of two:39:05 set by Ram Babu in 2022.
Whereas Payal clocked 3:02:24 to enhance her personal meet mark of three:04.48 set in 2022.
Away from the highway race, there was pleasure on the throwing area. Madhya Pradesh’s promising thrower Samardeep Singh Gill pre-event plan to interrupt 20m barrier in males’s shot put would possibly take time as he fell wanting his goal to accept gold at 19.27m.
Hammer throw gold went to Ravi of Railway Sports activities. His finest throw was 66.41m.
Within the ladies’s 800m preliminary spherical each KM Chanda of Railway Sports activities and Twinkle of Punjab, two outstanding runners, had been by way of to the ultimate. Whereas KM Deeksha of Madhya Pradesh, fancied to win the title, skipped the heats.
On Monday, focus shall be on the ladies’s 400m hurdles closing.
R Vithya Ramraj, the 26 years outdated Asian Video games medalist had run in 2023 season and narrowly missed PT Usha’s lengthy standing nationwide document of 55.42 seconds within the 400m hurdles.
On Sunday she was a snug winner within the heats. The meet document of 56.80 seconds in 400m hurdles was recorded by PT Usha in 1994.
The home meet is sponsored by NEB Sports activities.
Outcomes
Males
Excessive leap: Jomon Pleasure (Kerala) 2.14m, Aadarsh Ram (Railway Sports activities) 2.11m, Rohit (Haryana) 2.11m.
Lengthy leap: Arya S (Railway Sports activities) 7.89m, Muhammed Yahiya (Kerala) 7.78m, Jagroop (Punjab) 7.65m.
Shot put: Samardeep Singh Gill (Madhya Pradesh) 19.27m, Abhilash Saxena (Madhya Pradesh) 18.53m, Dhanveer Singh (SSCB) 18.51m.
Hammer throw: Ravi (Railway Sports activities) 66.41m, Ashish Jakhar (SSCB) 64.87m, Nitesh Poonia (Railway Sports activities) 64.85m.
35km race stroll: Amit (Haryana) 2:38:00.00 (meet document), Vijay Vishwakarma (SSCB) 2:39:13.00, Eknath Turambekar (Railway Sports activities) 2:39:36.00.
4x100m relay: Odisha 39.65 seconds, Railway Sports activities 39.82 seconds, SSCB 39.99 seconds.
Ladies
35km race stroll: Payal (Railway Sports activities) 3:02:24 (meet document), Ramandeep Kaur (Railway Sports activities) 3:08:22, Bandana Patel (Uttar Pradesh) 3:09:31.
4x100m relay: Karnataka 45.21 seconds, Railway Sports activities 45.29 seconds, Odisha 45.93 seconds.