Hovering excessive: Dev Kumar Meena set the primary Nationwide athletics report of this version whereas retaining his Nationwide Video games gold. | PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Quick work: Tajinderpal Singh Toor comfortably received the lads’s shot put gold with a gap effort. | PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Additional particular: Niharika Bashisht received the ladies’s triple soar, her maiden gold in a Nationwide competitors. | PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Dev Kumar Meena switched from the quartermile to pole vault simply three years in the past and he now seems to be in an enormous hurry to make up for the misplaced time.
The 19-year-old from Madhya Pradesh broke the pole vault Nationwide report, elevating it by one centimetre to five.32m, whereas retaining the gold within the Nationwide Video games athletics on the Ganga Stadium right here on Monday. It was the primary Nationwide report in athletics in these Video games right here and within the course of, Dev additionally improved his private finest by 12cm.
After crusing over Tamil Nadu’s S. Siva’s Nationwide report, Dev grew to become a bit formidable. He went for five.40m subsequent however stored kicking the bar down each time.
“It was my new Cuban coach Angel Garcia Esteban’s resolution to go for five.40,” stated Dev. Ghyanshyam Yadav been teaching Dev for the previous couple of years on the MP athletics academy and Esteban, a former Cuban Nationwide champion, will start engaged on the teen quickly.
In the meantime Asian and Asian Video games champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor comfortably received the lads’s shot put gold with a gap effort of 19.74m.
“I’ve recovered from the damage which had been troubling me and I’ll start specializing in the Worlds this yr,” stated the Olympian, a former Asian report holder, who holds the Nationwide report with 21.77m.
There was an enormous shock within the girls’s hammer throw the place UP’s Anuksha Yadav improved her private finest by greater than six metres as she broke the Video games report and beat record-holder Tanya Chaudhary for the gold. And in girls’s triple soar, Punjab’s Niharika Vashisht received her maiden gold in a Nationwide competitors stunning defending champion N.V. Sheena and one other main identify, Poorva Sawant.
The outcomes: Males: 3000m steeple chase: 1. Sumit Kumar (Ser) 8:46.26s, 2. Rohit Verma (Ser) 8:49.01, 3. Shankar Lal Swami (Har) 8:49.39. 4x400m relay: 1. Tamil Nadu (3:10.61s), 2. Uttarakhand (3:10.85), 3. Companies (3:10.90). Pole vault: 1. Dev Kumar Meena (Pun) 5.32m Nationwide report, OR 5.31 by TN’s S. Siva, 2022; 2. G. Reegan (TN) 5.00, 3. Kuldeep Kumar (UP) 5.00. Shot put: 1. Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Pun) 19.74m, 2. Samardeep Singh Gill (MP) 19.38, 3. Prabhkirpal Singh (Pun) 19.04.
Girls: 3000m steeple chase: 1. Ankita (Utk) 9:53.63s, 2. Manju Yadav (MP) 10:15.70, 3. Rebi Paul (UP) 10:37.15. 4x400m relay: 1. Punjab (3:41.77s), 2. Karnataka (3:43.89), 3. Haryana (3:45.83). Triple soar: 1. Niharika Vashisht (Pun) 13.37m, 2. N.V. Sheena (Ker) 13.19, 3. Sandra Babu (Ker) 13.12. Hammer throw: 1. Anuksha Yadav (UP) 62.89m MR, OR Tanya Chaudhary’s 62.47m 2023; 2. Tanya Chaudhary (UP) 59.74, 3. Nandni (UP) 58.89.
Printed – February 10, 2025 08:13 pm IST
