Simply in time: Aboobacker reserved his finest for the final and clinched the win.
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Commonwealth Video games silver medallist Abdulla Aboobacker equalled his private better of 17.19m to win the boys’s triple leap gold on the 4th Indian Open Jumps Competitors on the Anju Bobby George Basis right here on Saturday.
The 29-year-old, nevertheless, narrowly missed the qualification mark of 17.22m for September’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Aboobacker, although, was assured that he would scale the space at his subsequent occasion, which is generally more likely to be the Federation Senior Athletics from April 21 to 24.
On the day, Aboobacker seemed rusty, for these are nonetheless early days within the season. He was trailing Praveen Chithravel till the final try and 4 of his first 5 jumps had been fouls. However with a major tailwind propelling him, he reserved his finest for the final and relegated Praveen to second place (17.13m).
Moumita Mondal
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Elsewhere, Moumita Mondal overcame windy circumstances – and quite a lot of drops of rain – to report a private finest in girls’s lengthy leap (6.44m) and beat Asian Video games silver medallist Ancy Sojan (6.33m) to the gold.
The outcomes: Males: Excessive leap: 1. Sarvesh Anil Kushare (Mah) 2.19m, 2. Uchchaal Kumar Roy (Ben) 2.13m, 3. Swadhin Kumar Majhi (Odi) 2.13m; Lengthy leap: 1. Sunny Kumar (Bih) 7.80m, 2. P. David (Railways) 7.73, 3. Sanmath Darshan (TN) 7.56; Triple leap: 1. Abdulla Aboobacker (Air Pressure) 17.19m, 2. Praveen Chithravel (TN) 17.13, 3. Ashok Yadav (Har) 15.94; Pole vault: 1. Gokul Nath (TN) 4.90m, 2. M. Gowtham (TN), 4.80, 3. Okay.G. Jessan (Ker) 4.80.
Girls: Excessive leap: 1. Abhinaya S. Shetty (JSW) 1.80m, 2. S.B. Supriya (Railways) 1.74, 3. Pallavi Patil (Kar) 1.74; Lengthy leap: Moumita Mondal (Reliance) 6.44m, 2. Ancy Sojan (Ser) 6.33, 3. Sandra Babu (JSW) 6.03; Triple leap: 1. N.V. Sheena (Ker) 13.04m, 2. Poorva Hitesh Sawant (Mah) 12.98, 3. Nimisha Dayma (JSW) 12.95; Pole vault: 1. G. Sindhushree (Kar) 3.80m, 2. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 3.70, 3. V. Dharshini Vijayakumar (TN) 3.40.
Printed – March 22, 2025 08:36 pm IST
